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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
The FRA was enacted in 2006 with the aim of protecting the claims of tribal communities over tracts of land or forests they have inhabited and cultivated for generations. It has the potential to democratise forest governance by recognising community forest resource rights over an estimated
85.6 million acres, thereby empowering over 200 million forest dwellers in over 1,70,000 villages. However, the FRA’s future is precariously balanced between the democratic control and protection of forests on the one hand and rapacious corporations backed by an unscrupulous political class on the other. It has become the site of a deep conflict.
Which of the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification :
Ans. B. A and C are wrong as they move away from the central focus of the passage which is on FRA. D is wrong as the statement is making a definite prediction, the basis of which has not been given in the passage. B is the most accurate answer.
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification :
Ans. B. A and C are wrong as they move away from the central focus of the passage which is on FRA. D is wrong as the statement is making a definite prediction, the basis of which has not been given in the passage. B is the most accurate answer.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
Many Americans are now learning to meditate at the office. From Aetna to General Mills to Google, corporate America has bought into mindfulness in a big way, rolling out employee training programs across its campuses and promoting mindful leaders to top positions. These efforts, which gained momentum after the crash of 2008, have coincided with the most precipitous decline in fortunes Americans have seen since the Great Depression—a period of layoffs, outsourcing, and the casualization of labor. Workers who held on to their jobs experienced what journalists Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein have called “the great speedup.” Under pressure to do more with less, Americans struggle to complete an ever-expanding to-do list during ever-expanding working hours without an increase in pay. For many, staying in work has required a fundamental change in lifestyle: In 2002 just 8 percent of employees checked email before arriving at the office. Today 50 percent deal with email before even getting out of bed.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are in accordance with the underlying message of the passage?
- Great Depression and 2008 financial crash had a massive impact on the work psychology of Americans
- Economic meltdown is accompanied by casualization of workforce
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Correct Answer : A
Answer Justification :
Explanation:
Nowhere in the passage reason for casualization of workforce has been specifically allocated to economic meltdowns. It might be a by-product but a causal relationship between the two has not been established in the passage.
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Correct Answer : A
Answer Justification :
Explanation:
Nowhere in the passage reason for casualization of workforce has been specifically allocated to economic meltdowns. It might be a by-product but a causal relationship between the two has not been established in the passage.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
What, according to the passage, is the meaning of the term “the great speedup”?
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification:
Statement a is incomplete. It doesn’t talk about the reason that has caused a change in the lifestyle of people. Statement D is wrong as the latter part of the statement is nowhere mentioned in the passage. Statement c is completely unrelated to the context in which the passage mention great speedup. Statement b is correct as great speedup refers to the change in lifestyle that people have to make in order to be professionally relevant.
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification:
Statement a is incomplete. It doesn’t talk about the reason that has caused a change in the lifestyle of people. Statement D is wrong as the latter part of the statement is nowhere mentioned in the passage. Statement c is completely unrelated to the context in which the passage mention great speedup. Statement b is correct as great speedup refers to the change in lifestyle that people have to make in order to be professionally relevant.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles, and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. And that shorthand works well online, where symbols and shorthand are often baked into communication.
What assumption(s) is/are are being made in the passage?
- Astrology is a good tool to understand personality
- Online conversations and interactions are more effective when symbols and short hands are
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification:
The author in the passage is making a general statement on astrology explaining what it entails. He/she is not passing any value judgement on astrology. Statement ii is explicitly assumed in the last line of the passage.
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Correct Answer : B
Answer Justification:
The author in the passage is making a general statement on astrology explaining what it entails. He/she is not passing any value judgement on astrology. Statement ii is explicitly assumed in the last line of the passage.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
The cryptocurrency community is centered around a tight knit group of friends — developers, libertarians, Redditors and cypherpunks — who have known each other for years through meet-ups, an endless circuit of crypto conferences and internet message boards. Over long hours in anonymous group chats, San Francisco bars and Settlers of Catan game nights, they talk about how cryptocurrency will decentralize power and wealth, changing the world order. The goal may be decentralization, but the money is extremely concentrated. Coinbase has more than 13 million accounts that own cryptocurrencies. Data suggests that about 94 percent of the Bitcoin wealth is held by men, and some estimate that 95 percent of the wealth is held by 4 percent of the owners.
What is the most logical and critical inference that can be drawn from the passage?
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Correct Answer : C
Answer Justification :
Explanation:
Statement a is not in line with the central theme of the passage. Same is the case with statement b and d. The essential purpose of the passage is – despite the promises of decentralization of wealth via the medium of cryptocurrencies, in terms of its distribution, at least in the initial stage, suffers from the same issues as fiat currencies.
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Correct Answer : C
Answer Justification :
Explanation:
Statement a is not in line with the central theme of the passage. Same is the case with statement b and d. The essential purpose of the passage is – despite the promises of decentralization of wealth via the medium of cryptocurrencies, in terms of its distribution, at least in the initial stage, suffers from the same issues as fiat currencies.