UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Mass media like television, radio and online streaming are particularly powerful for disseminating information to a wide audience. In education, they enable delivery of lectures, documentaries and educational programmes to learners who are separated by distance or time. The standardization of content ensures that all viewers receive the same core message, supporting large scale educational initiatives such as open schooling or awareness campaigns.

Option A:
Option A suggests face to face interaction, which mass media generally cannot provide. Interaction is often limited or mediated, and the communication tends to be one way from source to audience.

Option B:
Option B correctly identifies the strengths of mass media in reaching many learners across regions. It captures the capacity for wide distribution and standard content, which is especially useful in distance education and public education campaigns.

Option C:
Option C claims that media remove the need for teachers, which is unrealistic. Teachers are still needed to guide, motivate, clarify doubts and contextualize content delivered by mass media.

Option D:
Option D assumes that using mass media can guarantee identical learning outcomes for all learners, ignoring individual differences, prior knowledge and learning conditions. No medium alone can ensure uniform achievement.

Option C – mass communication Mass communication involves transmitting messages to large, heterogeneous audiences through media such as television, radio, newspapers or online platforms. Educational broadcasts produced for wide audiences of students and teachers fall into this category. The sender may be a single agency, but the receivers are numerous and geographically scattered. Therefore, using television or radio to deliver lessons to many learners is an example of mass communication in education.

Option A:
Option A, interpersonal communication, usually refers to face-to-face interaction between two or a few individuals, characterized by direct feedback and personal contact. This is quite different from broadcasting to large, anonymous audiences via television or radio. Thus, interpersonal communication does not fit the description given.

Option B:
Option B, intrapersonal communication, is communication within oneself, such as self-talk or internal reflection. It does not involve transmitting lessons to others and therefore cannot describe educational broadcasting.

Option C:
Option C, mass communication, captures the key features mentioned in the stem: large audience, dispersed locations and use of mass media technologies. Educational television and radio programmes are classic forms of such communication. For this reason, mass communication is the correct term.

Option D:
Option D, group communication, typically denotes interaction within a small group where members can easily respond to each other, like a committee meeting or classroom discussion. Although television viewers may be in small groups at home, the broadcast itself is not a small-group exchange. Hence, group communication is not the best label here.

Mass communication occurs when a single source sends messages to large,heterogeneous audiences through media such as radio,TV or newspapers. A university programme broadcast over radio reaches many distant learners simultaneously. This is a classic one to many pattern,so it is mass communication.

Option A:
Interpersonal communication usually involves direct,face to face interaction between a small number of people,rather than a broadcast to the public.

Option B:
Intrapersonal communication is internal self talk within one person and does not involve a radio audience.

Option C:
Group communication describes interaction among members of a small group meeting together,not a mass broadcast across distances.

Option D:
Because the example in the stem uses radio to reach many dispersed learners at once,mass communication is the most accurate label.

Mass communication reaches large,heterogeneous audiences separated by time and space through media such as television,radio and newspapers. A national educational programme telecast to millions fits this description exactly. The flow is typically one-to-many and feedback is limited or delayed. Therefore,the correct term is mass communication.

Option A:
In mass communication,the message is designed for a broad audience rather than a specific individual or small group. The TV example in the stem fits this pattern,so mass is the appropriate choice.

Option B:
Interpersonal communication would involve direct contact between a small number of individuals rather than a nationwide broadcast.

Option C:
Intrapersonal communication concerns communication within an individual’s mind,not a programme sent to many people.

Option D:
Horizontal communication usually refers to message flow between peers within an organisation,not to broadcast media.

Physical support systems include tangible facilities and resources such as classrooms,laboratories,libraries and media centres that directly support teaching learning activities. They provide the physical space and equipment needed for effective instruction. The resources listed in the stem—laboratory,library and media centre—are all physical facilities,so the correct label is physical support systems.

Option A:
Psychological support systems relate to counselling and guidance services that address emotional and mental needs,rather than to buildings and equipment.

Option B:
Administrative support systems deal with management structures,policies and office staff that help run the institution,but they are not the resources named in the stem.

Option C:
Physical support systems are foundational to practical work,access to books and use of audio-visual aids,which matches the examples given.

Option D:
Financial support systems concern funding and budgeting processes that enable procurement of resources,but they are distinct from the facilities themselves.

Mass communication involves transmitting messages to large,heterogeneous audiences through media such as radio,television or newspapers. Educational broadcasts use these channels to reach large numbers of learners simultaneously,even beyond the formal classroom. The stem specifically mentions TV programmes and radio broadcasts,which are classic examples of mass communication.

Option A:
Interpersonal communication refers to direct,face-to-face or small-group interaction between individuals,not to media-based broadcasts to large audiences.

Option B:
Mass communication allows educational agencies to deliver lectures,documentaries and instructional programmes widely,which is why this option correctly completes the stem.

Option C:
Intrapersonal communication occurs within an individual’s own mind,such as self-talk,and is not relevant to broadcasts.

Option D:
Group communication usually occurs within a small group that interacts directly,rather than through one-way media channels.