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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2022 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.83
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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 majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others. They permit the newspapers and the gossiping neighbours to do their thinking for them. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on the earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon by anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

What is the main idea of the passage?
A
People should not be influenced by the opinions of others.
B
People should accumulate as much money as they can.
C
People should neither give nor accept the opinions.
D
People will succeed in any undertaking if they do not accept any opinion at all.
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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2022 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.83
Change Language

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 social order is a sacred right which is the basis of all other rights. Nevertheless, this right does not come from nature, and must therefore be founded on conventions."

With reference to the above passage, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Conventions are the sources of rights of man.

2. Rights of man can be exercised only when there is a social order.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

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 2022 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.83
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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.

To encourage research is one of the functions of a university. Contemporary universities have encouraged research, not only in those cases where research is necessary, but on all sorts of entirely unprofitable subjects as well. Scientific research is probably never completely valueless. However silly and insignificant it may seem, however mechanical and unintelligent the labours of the researchers, there is always a chance that the results may be of value to the investigator of talent, who can use the facts collected for him by uninspired but industrious researchers as the basis of some fruitful generalization. But where research is not original, but consists in the mere rearrangement of existing materials, where its object is not scientific but literary or historical, then there is a risk of the whole business becoming merely futile.

The author's assumption about scientific research is that
A
it is never very valuable
B
it is sometimes very valuable
C
it is never without some value
D
it is always very valuable
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UPSC Civil Service Prelims Paper II 2022 (CSAT)
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2.5
-0.83
Change Language

Read the following passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

To encourage research is one of the functions of a university. Contemporary universities have encouraged research, not only in those cases where research is necessary, but on all sorts of entirely unprofitable subjects as well. Scientific research is probably never completely valueless. However silly and insignificant it may seem, however mechanical and unintelligent the labours of the researchers, there is always a chance that the results may be of value to the investigator of talent, who can use the facts collected for him by uninspired but industrious researchers as the basis of some fruitful generalization. But where research is not original, but consists in the mere rearrangement of existing materials, where its object is not scientific but literary or historical, then there is a risk of the whole business becoming merely futile.

According to the author
A
not many research results can be of value to an intelligent investigator
B
a research result is always valuable to an intelligent investigator
C
any research result can be of value to an intelligent investigator
D
a research result must always be of some value to an intelligent investigator
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