Statement: Every year thousands of eligible students do not get admission in colleges both in urban and rural areas after passing their school leaving certificate examination.
Courses of Action:
More colleges should be set up in both urban and rural areas.
The number of schools in both urban and rural areas should be reduced.
More schools should offer vocational courses to equip students for taking up their vocation after completing their school education.
Options
A. Only I follows
B. Only II and III follow
C. Only I and III follow
D. All follow
E. None of these
Correct Answer
Only I and III follow
Explanation
The solution to the problem lies in accommodating the increasing number of students passing out from schools. So, only I and III follow.
More questions
1. Statement: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.
Courses of Action:
India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.
India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.
Clearly, such projects shall be an asset and a source of income to the country later on. So, course I shall follow.
2. Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of requests for berths in most of the long distance trains during the current holiday season.
Courses of Action:
The railway authority should immediately increase the capacity in each of these trains by attaching additional coaches.
The people seeking accommodation should be advised to make their travel plan after the holiday.
People cannot be deprived of going to a certain destination merely for lack of berths. Instead it is the duty of the railway authority to accommodate all the bookings by all means. So, only I follows.
Correct Answer: Only one worker in the factory has exactly five children.
5. Statements: The XYZ Medical College has started a cell which will conduct counselling workshops in the field of stress management to patients and general public.
Conclusions:
The hospital has needed resources to start such activity.
Patients and general public feel a need to have such cell in the hospital.
Since the hospital has started the activity, it must have been well-equipped for the same. So, I follows. Also, any new activity is started keeping in mind the need for it. So, II also follows.
6. A forest has as many sandal trees as it has Ashoka trees. Three-fourth of the trees are old ones and half of the trees are at the flowering stage.
Options
A. All Ashoka trees are at the flowering stage.
B. All sandal trees are at the flowering stage.
C. At least one-half of the Ashoka trees are old.
D. One-half of the sandal trees are at the flowering stage.
7. The hotel is two blocks east of the drugstore. The market is one block west of the hotel. The drugstore is west of the market. If the first two statements are true, the third statement is
A marathon is a long race and hibernation is a lengthy period of sleep. The answer is not choice a or b because even though a bear and winter are related to hibernation, neither completes the analogy. (Choice c) is incorrect because sleep and dream are not synonymous.