UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 envisions professional education programmes (engineering, management, law, etc.) becoming part of broad-based multidisciplinary universities, so that students combine professional studies with humanities, social sciences and other fields, leading to more holistic and flexible learning.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because NEP explicitly critiques excessive fragmentation and isolation of professional institutions.

Option B:
Option B is correct as it reflects NEP’s push to locate professional programmes within multidisciplinary universities that also provide general education.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect; abolishing professional education is neither realistic nor proposed by NEP.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because NEP does not advocate online-only professional education; it recognises the importance of labs, studios and clinical or practical components.

NEP 2020 suggests that very small, fragmented colleges should be merged or expanded into larger multidisciplinary institutions, typically with 3000 or more students, to ensure viability, diverse offerings and robust academic communities.

Option A:
Maintaining many very small colleges makes it difficult to provide adequate faculty, facilities and programme diversity, which the policy seeks to change.

Option B:
This option describes the preferred model of reasonably large, multidisciplinary institutions outlined in NEP.

Option C:
Deliberately restricting institutions to fewer than 500 students would limit access and contradict the expansion goals of the policy.

Option D:
The policy does not argue for mega universities with over one lakh students as the only model; it prefers moderate but strong institutional sizes.