Course of Action Questions

• Statement There is an unprecedented increasing in the number of successful students in this year's school leaving certificate examination. Courses of Action I. The Government should make arrangements to increase number of seats of intermediate courses in the existing colleges. II. The Government should take active steps to open new colleges to accommodate all these successful students.
• Statement A very large number of students have failed in the final high school examinations due to wrong questions in one of the subjects. Courses of Action I. All the students who have failed in that subject should be allowed to take supplementary examination. II. All those who are responsible for the error should be suspended and an enquiry should be initiated to find out the facts.
• Statement The prices of foodgrains and vegetables have substantially increased due to prolonged strike call given by the truck owners association. Courses of Action I. The Government should immediately make alternative arrangements to ensure adequate supply of foodgrains and vegetable in the market. II. The Government should take steps to cancel the licence of all the vehicles belonging to the association.
• Statement As many as ten coaches of a passenger train have derailed and block both pairs of the railways tracks. Courses of Action I. The railway authorities should immediately send men and equipment to the spot to clear the railway tracks. II. All the trains running in both directions should be diverted to other routes.
• Statement There has been a significant drop in the water level of all the lakes supplying water to the city. Courses of Action I. The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation. II. The Government should appeal to all the residents through mass media for minimal use of water.
• 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 I. The railway authority should immediately increase the capacity in each of these trains by attaching additional coaches. II. The people seeking accommodation should be advised to make their travel plan after the holiday.
• Statement Two persons, while on their daily walks in the jogger's park were killed by unidentified miscreants early in the morning. Courses of Action I. The police authority should deploy police constables near the jogger's park to prevent such criminal acts in future. II. The citizens of the locality should go for early morning walks in groups to avoid.
• Statement A huge tidal wave swept away many fishing boats and hutments of the fishermen living along the coastline. Courses of Action I. The fisherman should henceforth be restrained from constructing their huts along the coast line. II. The local administration should send a team of officials to assess the extent of damage and suggest remedial meas.
• Statement A large number of students studying in vernacular medium have not passed the Xth standard final examination. Courses of Action I. The Government should immediately review the situation and initiate measures to improve it. II. All the teachers of these schools should be issued notices to improve performance of the students.
• Statement Researchers are feeling agitated as libraries are not well equipped to provide the right information to the right users at the right time in the required format. Even the users not aware about the various services available for them. Courses of Action I. All the information available in the libraries should be computerized to provide faster services to the users. 2. Library staff should be trained in computer operations.
• Statement A large number of invitees who attended the marriage function fell ill due to food poisoning and were rushed to various hospitals located in the area. Course of Action I. The Government should ban such marriage functions till further notice. II. The local hospitals should be advised by the Government to provide best services to the affected people.
• Statement Many school children died in few incidents caused due to poor maintenance of school buses during the last few months. Courses of Action I. The Government should set up an export group to inspect the condition of school buses to avoid such accidents. II. The Government should suspend the license of all the school buses till these buses are properly checked.
• Statement Majority of the students have failed in one paper in the first semester examination. Courses of Action I. All those student who failed should be asked to drop out of the courses. II. The faculty teaching the paper should be asked to resign.
• Statement The central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) receives the complaint of an officer taking bribe to do the duty he is supposed to. Course of action I. CBI should try to catch the officer red-handed and then take a strict action against him. II. CBI should wait for some more complaints about the officer to be sure about the matter.
• Statement In one of the accidents on a railways level crossing, fifty people died when a bus carrying them collided with a running train. Courses of Action I. The train driver should immediately be suspended. II. The driver of the bus should be tried in court for negligence on his part. III. The railways authorities should be asked to man all its level crossings.
• Statement There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season. Courses of Action I. The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase. II. In future the police should take adequate precautions to avoid recurrence of such a situation during festivals. III. The known criminals should be arrested before any such reasons.
• Statement A mass mortality of shrimps in ponds on entire Andhra coast has recently been reported due to the presence of a virus. Courses of Action I. The water of the ponds affected should immediately be treated for identifying the nature of the virus. II. The catching of shrimps from the ponds should temporarily be stopped. III. The fishermen should be asked to watch for the onset of such phenomenon in nature.
• Statement Occurrences of natural calamities have now increased as compared to the situation five years ago. Courses of Action I. Government should always be ready with the action plan for disaster management. II. Government should not permit development activities which are likely to cause harm to nature. III. Government should appoint a committee of environmentalists and scientists to work out plans to handle various calamities.
• Statement A large number of management institutes are mushrooming all over the country and not all the MBA's coming out are worth it. Courses of Action I. The Government should follow stringent norms for granting permission to the management institutes. II. The students while taking admission should examine the market value for the degree they are going to get. III. The employers should make MBA as an essential qualification only for the position where it is genuinely essential.
• Statement Many students at school and degree level are not able to master the subjects event if they have passed out with high scores. Courses of Action I. Education boards should examine and revise the examination system to tap the real talent. II. Examination system at all levels should be so designed as to discourage the rote learning. III. Difficulty level of the examination papers should be significantly increased.