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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2024 (CSAT)
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-0.833
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Read the following passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

The flower was not invented to please us. It flaunted its petals and spread its perfume to attract an insect. The insect carries the pollen from flower to flower so that pollen is not carried away by wind and thus not wasted. What we call a flower’s beauty is merely a by-product and a human invention. The perfume is not there to please us, it pleases us because it is there and we have been conditioned to it.

Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

1. The author of the passage believes that flowers are creations of Nature’s luxury.

2. The author of the passage does not believe in the usefulness of flowers except as things of beauty.

Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?

A

1 only

B

2 only

C

Both 1 and 2

D

Neither 1 nor 2

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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2024 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.833
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Read the following passage and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
By the time children reach class 8 , the bulk of them tend to be in the age range of 13 years 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 organized 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 :

1. For effective school education, parents have greater role than the governments.

2. School curriculum that conforms to today's requirements and is uniform for the entire country may address the issues brought out.

Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
A
1 only
B
2 only
C
Both 1 and 2
D
Neither 1 nor 2
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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2024 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.833
Change Language
Read the following passage and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
By the time children reach class 8 , the bulk of them tend to be in the age range of 13 years 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 organized 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.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea conveyed by the passage?
A
Total eradication of poverty in the country will resolve the issue of under-performance of our schoolchildren.
B
Monetary incentives to parents and teachers is a strategy to improve the children's academic performance.
C
Public policy should ensure that competencies and achievements of young people are aligned with their expectations.
D
India is not going to take advantage of the demographic dividend unless some school pass-outs go back to agriculture.
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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2024 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.833
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Read the following passage and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
In a robust democracy, reality, howsoever inconvenient it may be, finds its expression both in the speech of political leaders and the other social forms of assertion. The existence of the real has to be transparent, both through its circulation in and by the media as well as its argumentative articulation in deliberative democracy. A normatively responsible media through its communication effect has the responsibility to circulate the content of reality without distortion.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the crux of the above passage?
A
Responsible media should not distort the real in an ideal democracy.
B
Fake news seems inherent in the life of an ideal democracy.
C
There should not be any kind of restrictions on the freedom of expression in an ideal democracy.
D
Irresponsible media and political leaders cannot be effectively controlled in an ideal democracy.
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