UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 aims to reduce the high-stakes nature of board exams and make them more competency-based. It suggests offering them more than once a year and allowing students to take them in different subjects at different times. The focus shifts to testing understanding rather than rote learning while still maintaining standards.

Option A:
This option summarises the policy’s direction of modular, flexible and competency-oriented board exams.

Option B:
Making them more frequent and high-stakes would increase stress, not reduce it.

Option C:
Memory-focused exams are criticised in the policy and are not the model to follow.

Option D:
Abolishing board exams entirely is not recommended; they are to be reformed, not removed.

NEP 2020 recommends that board exams become more flexible and low stakes. One suggestion is that students may be allowed to appear for them more than once a year, with the best score being considered. This reduces pressure and allows students to improve without losing a year.

Option A:
A single lifetime exam would be excessively rigid and is not proposed.

Option B:
This option captures the flexibility aspect of NEP’s vision: multiple chances, competency-based questions and reduced high-stakes pressure.

Option C:
Monthly board exams would be unrealistic and highly stressful for students and teachers.

Option D:
NEP does not abolish board exams; it reforms them to assess understanding better.