To the extent I understood this question, we have to enumerate the total no. of ways to get a total of spin S = 1 from 2N number of spin-1/2's.
Now, I think that by spin-1/2's, the question is referring to s1 = s2 = 1/2 (and not something like 3/2, 5/2, ...).
When N = 1, we have 1/2 + 1/2 => No...