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Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea of the above passage [about adolescents]?
Passage-2: We take it for granted now that science has a social responsibility. The idea would not have occurred to Newton or Galileo. They thought of science as an account of the world as it is, and the only responsibility they acknowledged was to tell the truth. The idea that science is a social enterprise is modern, and it begins at the industrial revolution. We are surprised that we cannot trace a social sense further back, because we nurse the illusion that the industrial revolution ended a golden age.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the thinking of the author about the science?
Passage-1: Today, if we consider cities such as New York, London and Paris as some of the most iconic cities in the world, it is because plans carrying a heavy systems approach were imposed on their precincts. The backbone of the systems theory is the process of translating social, spatial and cultural desirables into mathematical models using computing, statistics, optimisation and an algorithmic way of formulating and solving problems. The early universities of the West which began to train professionals in planning, spawned some of the most ingenious planners, who were experts in these domains. This was because these very subjects were absorbed into the planning curriculum that had its roots in the social sciences, geography and architecture. Planning in India, and its education differ from the West.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?
Based on the above passage (Passage 1 on conventional classrooms), the following assumptions have been made:
As a large number of workers in our country are employed in unorganized sector, India does not need to change its present conventional classroom system of education.
Even with its present conventional classroom system of education, India produces sufficient number of skilled workers to fully realize the benefits of demographic dividend.
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
Passage-1 (same as Q31 — history of science passage).
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are correct?
Passage-1: By the time children reach class 8, the bulk of them tend to be in the age range of 13 to 15 years. But in our country, about a quarter of all children in class 8 struggle with reading simple texts and more than half are still unable to do basic arithmetic operations like division. Every year about 25 million young boys and girls from elementary school move into the life that lies for them beyond compulsory schooling. They cannot enter the workforce at least in the organised sector till they are 18. For many families, these children are the first from their families ever to get this far in school. Parents and children expect that such 'graduates' from school will go on to high school and college. Hardly anyone wants to go back to agriculture. On the other hand, abilities in terms of academic competencies are far lower than they should be even based on curricular expectations of class 8.
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
Passage-1: When an international team of scientists pumped a carbon dioxide and water mix into underground basalt rocks, basic chemistry took over. The acidic mixture dissolved rocks' calcium and magnesium and formed limestone. Basically carbon dioxide is converted into stone, exclaimed the scientists.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the most logical, rational and practical suggestion implied by the passage?
Passage-1 (same as Q1 — Food and Agriculture Organization passage on food loss and wastage).
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
Passage-1: 'The history of science is the real history of mankind.' In this striking epigram, a nineteenth-century writer links science with its background. Like most epigrams, its power lies in emphasising by contrast an aspect of truth which may be easily overlooked. In this case, it is easy to overlook the relations between science and mankind, and to treat the former as some abstract third party, which can sometimes be praised for its beneficial influences, but frequently blamed for the horrors of war. Science and mankind cannot be divorced from time to time at men's convenience. Yet we have seen that, in spite of countless opportunities of improvement, the opening years of the present period of civilisation have been dominated by international conflict. Is this the inevitable result of the progress of science or does the fault lie elsewhere?
Which of the following is/are emphatically conveyed by the author of the passage?
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Passage-1 (same as Q11 — urban planning and systems approach passage).
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are correct?
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage—1
Conventional classrooms, by emphasizing fixed duration over learning effectiveness, resign themselves to variable outcomes. The tyranny of the classroom is that every learner is subjected to the same set of lectures in the same way for the same duration. In the end, a few learners shine, some survive, and the rest are left behind. After the fixed duration, the classroom model moves on, with not a thought spared for those left behind. This is how we end up with 10 percent employability in our graduates after a decade and half of formal education. Repeating the same ineffectual script in the realm of skill education will not produce different results.
Which of the following statements best reflects/reflect the most logical and rational inference/inferences that can be made from the passage?
In conventional classroom learning, the central goal is duration of learning rather than attainment of competency.
Conventional classrooms encourage one-size-fits-all approach and stamp out all differentiation.
Passage-2: Only with long experience and opening of his wares on many a beach where his language is not spoken, will the merchant come to know the worth of what he carries, and what is parochial and what is universal in his choice. Such delicate goods as justice, love and honour, courtesy, and indeed all the things we care for, are valid everywhere but they are variously moulded and often differently handled, and sometimes nearly unrecognisable if you meet them in a foreign land, and the art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
When we meet other people while we travel, we learn to differentiate between
Passage-2 (same as Q13 — social media and political discourse passage).
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
Based on the above passage [about adolescents], the following assumptions have been made:
Passage-2 (same as Q3 — inflation and fiscal/monetary policy passage).
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
Passage-1 (same as Q21 — children's education and school competency passage).
Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea conveyed by the passage?
Passage-1: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. Food is lost or wasted throughout the supply chain, from initial agricultural production to final household consumption. The increasing wastage also results in land degradation by about 45%, mainly due to deforestation, unsustainable agricultural practices, and excessive groundwater extraction. The energy spent over wasted food results in about 3.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide production every year. Decay also leads to harmful emissions of other gases in the atmosphere. Addressing the loss and wastage of food in all forms is critical to complete the cycle of food sufficiency and food sustainability.
Which of the following statements best reflect the most logical and rational inferences that can be made from the passage?
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Passage-2: As inflation rises, even governments previously committed to budget discipline are spending freely to help households. Higher interest rates announced by central banks are supposed to help produce modest fiscal austerity, because to maintain stable debts while paying more to borrow, governments must cut spending or raise taxes. Without the fiscal backup, monetary policy eventually loses traction. Higher interest rates become inflationary, not disinflationary, because they simply lead governments to borrow more to pay rising debt-service costs. The risk of monetary unmooring is greater when public debt rises, because interest rates become more important to budget deficits.
Which of the following statements best reflects/reflect the most logical and rational inference/inferences that can be made from the passage?
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Passage-2: Not every voice on the internet commands the same kind of audience. When anonymous private entities with high capital can pay for more space for their opinions, they are effectively buying a louder voice. If political discourse in the digital sphere is a matter of outshining one's opponent till the election is won, then the quality of politics suffers. The focus of social media is restricted to the promotion of content that generates more user engagement, regardless of how inflammatory the content may be.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea of the above passage?
Passage-2 (same as Q33 — travel and universal values passage).
With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
Which of the assumptions given above are valid?
