Direction (Q. 1-5): A statement is given followed by three courses of action. A course of action is taken for improvement, follow-up etc Read the statement carefully and pick the correct answer choice Statement: Tomorrow will be the first day of operation of Metro Railways for general public. No doubt a large number of people will turn up tomorrow to enjoy thefacility of Metro Railways.
Courses of action:
I Metro authorities should seek additional police force.
II Sightseers should be appealed to come only during non-peak hours.
III All the windows for issuing tickets should be ready to issue tickets and entry of the people should be regulated to manageable limits.
I is advisable because it will ensure safe running of trains and the well-being of passengers. II is also advisable because this will reduce the crowd during peak hours. Ill is advisable because it will restrict the over-burden.
Statement: About 125 Dalits, including 15 women and five children, of Sikhara village converted to Christianity during a special Christmas prayer.
Courses of action:
I All the 125 persons should be issued summons by the court.
II An FIR should be lodged against the concerned persons who converted these Dalits into Christians.
III A ritual bath ceremony should be organised to reconvert these Christians to Dalits.
I does not follow because it will be a violation of fundamental right. II does not follow because the statement does not say that the conversions were done by, force. Ill does not follow because this will also violate the fundamental right of those persons who embraced Christianity.
Statement: Three persons of an upper-caste family died of hunger in state X recently.
Courses of action:
I A high-level inquiry should be made into irregularities in the listing of people under below poverty line (BPL) scheme.
II The remaining members of the family be enlisted under BPL scheme.
III A committee should be constituted to find out ways to restrict such deaths further as well as the circumstances which caused them hunger.
I is not advisable because the statement does not say anything about irregularities in listing the people under BPL scheme. II does not follow because the statement does not say anything about whether the persons were listed under BPL scheme or not But III is advisable because it will be helpful in reducing hunger deaths.
Statement: "Despite the government's continued efforts for the development of the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs), the progress made in relation to development of these groups 'is negligible'."-A leader of PTGs of country X
Courses of action:
I MinistryofTribalAffairsshouldcollectauthenticdata of the PTG population in the country and conduct a tribewise benchmark of PTGs within a timeframe.
II Information, including PTGs' social status, should be gathered in a time-bound manner.
III A rehabilitation programme should be launched to rehabilitate PTGs in their own areas and a Bill should be moved in the Parliament in this regard.
I is advisable because it will help in formulating plans and programmes for PTGs' overall development during next five-year plans or other such programmes. On the same basis II and III are also advisable.
Statement: Tourism in India is an industry with huge potential. But India's share is very less in world's total tourism sector.
Courses of action:
I Tourism should be declared as an infrastructure industry.
II A committee should be constituted under the Ministry of Tourism to address the problems of tourism industry.
III. Heritage monuments should be sold to a country which has better experience than India in this regard.
I is a advisable because it will be helpful in attracting low-cost funds. II will be helpful in detecting the problems of the industry, in is not advisable because it will deprive us of our heritage sites.
Direction (Q. 6-10): In each question below are given three statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, 111 and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Statements: a. Some sheets are rods.
b. No sheet is a foil.
c. All rods are marbles.
Conclusions: I No foil is a marble.
II. Some sheets are marbles.
III. Some rods are foils.
IV. Some rods are not foils.
Converted (a) + (b) gives: Some rods are not foils [ •/ I + E = O]. Hence, IV follows while III does not. Statement (a) + Statement (c) gives: Some sheets are marbles [v I + A = I]. Hence II follows. I can't be established.
Statements: a. Some MLAs are not honest.
b. Some MLAs are dishonest.
c. No honest is a leader.
Conclusions: I Some MLAs are leaders.
II. All dishonest are honest.
III. Some dishonest are MLAs.
IV.No leader is dishonest.
Only III follows. Statement (a) + Statement (c) gives no conclusion [ v O + E = no conclusion]. Hence I does not follow. Nor can II or IV be established. Converted form of statement (b) gives in.
Statements: a. Some stones are not rods.
b. All rods are black.
c. No black is is a crow.
Conclusions: I. Some crows are rods.
II Some blacks are stones.
III. Some crows are blacks.
IV. Some stones are rods.
None follows. IV does not follow from statement (a). Ill does not follow because of statement (c). Statement (b) + statement (c) gives. No rod is a crow [Because A - E = E]. Hence I does not follow. statement (a) + statement (b) gives no conclusion. Hence II does not follow.
Statements: a. Some garbages are money.
b. All papers are garbages.
c. All money are coins.
Conclusions:
I Some papers are coins.
II. Some garbages are coins.
III. No money is a paper.
IV. All coins are garbages.
Statement (a) + statement (c) gives : Some garbages are coins. Hence II follows but IV does not. statement (b) + statement (a) gives no conclusion. Hence III does not follow. statement (b) + statement (a) + statement (c) does not give conclusion I.
Statements: a. Some pants are shirts.
b. No face is a pant.
c. No pant is a flower.
Conclusions: I No flower is a face.
II No face is a flower.
III Some shirts are not faces.
IV. Some shirts are pants.
E + E = No conclusion. Therefore I and II can't be obtained from the statement (b) and (c) converted from the statement (a) gives conclusion IV. statement (b) + statement (a) gives conclusion III [Because E + I = O].
