[Mission 2023] Insta–DART (Daily Aptitude and Reasoning Test) 5 April 2023

The Survey says that while interventions such as remedial education and conditional cash transfers are “promising”, focusing entirely on increasing the number of teachers and making building and computers are not. However, there is now an urgent need to focus on creating excellence among educators.

What is the most logical and critical inference that can be drawn from the passage?

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. Your answer to these items should be based
on the passage only.
Passage 7:
India’s need to foster a manufacturing base for solar cells is unquestionable, but the best way to do that is by allowing market forces free play

Consider the following statements.
1. Market forces allow for optimum allocation of resources
2. In the absence of market forces, we can never develop a strong manufacturing base for solar cells
Which one of the above view(s) corroborate(s) the Passage statement?

Passage 8:
The real problem with the Indian anti-profiteering law as it stands today is that while it requires firms to pass on commensurate savings from GST cuts or input credit to consumers, it doesn’t specify how firms must determine what is ‘commensurate’. Enforcing these rules may have been somewhat simpler had India gone the way of Australia or Malaysia, to lay down a normal unit margin or net profit margin for each product, say three months ahead of the GST rollout. The task has become doubly difficult now, especially with the GST Council constantly tinkering with rates. Given the ambiguity, the NAA now needs to strike a fine balance between protecting consumer interests and
ensuring that its investigations don’t place an undue compliance burden on businesses. Perhaps it can identify oligopolistic sectors more prone to profiteering and focus its energies on them.

With reference to the above passage, following assumptions have been made;
1. Subjectivity in law is a recipe for litigations
2. Oligopolistic sectors require less monitoring to protect consumer interests
Which one of the following assumption(s) is/are true?

Passage 9:
The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.

The most logical inference that can be drawn from the passage is:

The depletion of organic nutrients in the soil has reached alarming proportions, thanks to indiscriminate use of chemical fertiliser in Green Revolution areas. As against an acceptable level of ‘soil organic carbon’ of well over 5 per cent, soils in Punjab are said to have levels far below 1 percent. The nutrient imbalance has been skewed by the overuse of urea (N) vis-a-vis phosphatic (P in chemical parlance) and potassic (K) fertiliser. The depletion of soil is being reflected in falling cereal yields in intensely cultivated regions. The granaries of India are trapped in a dangerous vicious cycle of input use, where increased dumping of fertiliser in the wrong combinations has rendered the soil
incapable of regenerating itself, which in turn escalates input use. Falling moisture retention abilities also leads to indiscriminate use of groundwater. The Modi government sought to address the imbalance by coming out with its soil health cards scheme in 2015, under which farmers can get their soils tested for NPK contents and get appropriate advise on how to apply these inputs. Over 2.5 crore soil samples are said to have been covered under scheme, of which about two crore have been tested.This scheme marks a slight advance over the nutrient balancing scheme of the last government, under which a reduction in of urea subsidy was expected to trigger a correction in favour of using P and K fertilisers (or di-ammonium phosphate and muriate of potash) — which did not happen. However, a major shortcoming of the soil health card initiative is that it is rooted in the chemical fertiliser framework. It should also suggest introduction of organic inputs.

60. With reference to the above passage, following assumptions have been made;
1. Organic inputs are more conducive to soil health
2. Soil Health Card scheme is better than nutrient balancing scheme
Which one of the following assumption(s) is/are true?