UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 highlights adult education as an essential component of lifelong learning, aimed at providing basic literacy, numeracy and key life skills related to health, finance, parenting and citizenship. The objective is to empower adults to participate fully in social and economic life.

Option A:
This option is correct because it accurately reflects NEP’s multi-dimensional vision of adult education: literacy, numeracy and practical life skills for adult learners.

Option B:
Offering only sports coaching would ignore the central goals of reading, writing, numeracy and critical life skills that the policy stresses for adults.

Option C:
Restricting learning to those below 18 contradicts the idea of adult and lifelong education and would leave existing illiterate adults without support.

Option D:
Promoting entertainment shows alone does not address basic educational deficits or improve adults’ capabilities, so it cannot be the main objective of adult education.

NEP 2020 proposes a community-based model for adult education that mobilises motivated volunteers, local teachers and youth, including university and senior school students, to facilitate learning in community centres, schools and libraries.

Option A:
Relying only on occasional international experts would be expensive, unsustainable and poorly connected to local realities.

Option B:
This option is correct because it reflects the participatory, community-driven facilitation model that the policy recommends for adult and lifelong learning.

Option C:
Restricting facilitation to a few urban principals would leave most communities, especially rural ones, without support.

Option D:
Private coaching institutes mainly serve exam aspirants and are not designed to deliver broad-based adult literacy and life skills programmes.

The policy talks about adult education covering basic literacy, critical life skills, vocational training, basic education and continuing education. These programmes help adults participate more fully in economic and civic life. Exclusive coaching for international sports teams is not listed as a category.

Option A:
Foundational literacy and numeracy for adults are central to adult education so that adults can read, write and handle numbers.

Option B:
Life skills like health awareness, financial literacy and parenting are explicitly included as critical areas.

Option C:
Vocational and continuing education are mentioned to improve employability and lifelong learning.

Option D:
Exclusive sports coaching for international teams is far removed from the adult education framework in NEP.