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Mega quiz 4 and weekly revision || VARC || CAT 2021 || 11 April

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Question 1

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Like remoras to a whale, narratives cling to every state. They persist long after they stop being true. Punjab is the state of cancer, drugs and the Green Revolution. Tamil Nadu has excellent public delivery of healthcare and education. In Bihar, Nitish Kumar is Sushasan, Good Governance, Babu even though the State remains absent.

This void does not stay empty for long. Society steps in, creating imperfect replacements to the State.

In Bihar, one of them was local strongmen. In When Crime Pays, the political scientist Milan Vaishnav writes about Anant Kumar Singh, the leader from the bhumihar caste in Mokama near Patna and bahubali, local strongman. Despite the many criminal cases against him, people voted for Singh as he got their work done in a town where the government functioning was weak.

Then, there were market actors, like the Career Plan Coaching Centre. Located in Geetwas, a small village near Araria in north-eastern Bihar, it was not much to look at – a tiny room, perhaps four by three metres, tightly packed with benches and desks, housed in an unplastered brick structure whose other half was a garage. It offered tuitions for students between classes eight and twelve.

But, as Gautam Kumar, a mathematics graduate in his mid-twenties who set up the centre after failing to qualify for a junior government post, explained, he did not merely provide supplementary education to students lagging in one or two subjects. He taught the entire school curriculum. Bihar’s education landscape was packed with entrepreneurs like Gautam Kumar. They operated a wide range of establishments, from teaching institutions located in village shacks to coaching centres in towns and cities to plush air-conditioned schools.

A third set was non-governmental organisations. The WHO and the union government’s IDSP kept tabs on the state’s disease burden. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was working on fertility, malnourishment, and IMR and MMR reductions. Others like the international NGOs Engender and Jhpiego worked on family planning and population stabilisation. The resulting outcome, a matrix of State failure and imperfect alternatives, shaped everyday life in Bihar.

Source: https://scroll.in/article/983987/in-bihar-an-absent-state-has-pushed-its-people-into-coming-up-with-imperfect-replacements

Which of the following the author is most likely to agree with?

Question 2

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Like remoras to a whale, narratives cling to every state. They persist long after they stop being true. Punjab is the state of cancer, drugs and the Green Revolution. Tamil Nadu has excellent public delivery of healthcare and education. In Bihar, Nitish Kumar is Sushasan, Good Governance, Babu even though the State remains absent.

This void does not stay empty for long. Society steps in, creating imperfect replacements to the State.

In Bihar, one of them was local strongmen. In When Crime Pays, the political scientist Milan Vaishnav writes about Anant Kumar Singh, the leader from the bhumihar caste in Mokama near Patna and bahubali, local strongman. Despite the many criminal cases against him, people voted for Singh as he got their work done in a town where the government functioning was weak.

Then, there were market actors, like the Career Plan Coaching Centre. Located in Geetwas, a small village near Araria in north-eastern Bihar, it was not much to look at – a tiny room, perhaps four by three metres, tightly packed with benches and desks, housed in an unplastered brick structure whose other half was a garage. It offered tuitions for students between classes eight and twelve.

But, as Gautam Kumar, a mathematics graduate in his mid-twenties who set up the centre after failing to qualify for a junior government post, explained, he did not merely provide supplementary education to students lagging in one or two subjects. He taught the entire school curriculum. Bihar’s education landscape was packed with entrepreneurs like Gautam Kumar. They operated a wide range of establishments, from teaching institutions located in village shacks to coaching centres in towns and cities to plush air-conditioned schools.

A third set was non-governmental organisations. The WHO and the union government’s IDSP kept tabs on the state’s disease burden. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was working on fertility, malnourishment, and IMR and MMR reductions. Others like the international NGOs Engender and Jhpiego worked on family planning and population stabilisation. The resulting outcome, a matrix of State failure and imperfect alternatives, shaped everyday life in Bihar.

Source: https://scroll.in/article/983987/in-bihar-an-absent-state-has-pushed-its-people-into-coming-up-with-imperfect-replacements

Which of the following is/are correctly inferred from the given passage?

I. Nitish Kumar's public image is not tarnished by his lack of governance.

II. People of Bihar focus on governance, not on who is governing.

III. The intervention by international organisations have caused state failure in Bihar.

Question 3

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Like remoras to a whale, narratives cling to every state. They persist long after they stop being true. Punjab is the state of cancer, drugs and the Green Revolution. Tamil Nadu has excellent public delivery of healthcare and education. In Bihar, Nitish Kumar is Sushasan, Good Governance, Babu even though the State remains absent.

This void does not stay empty for long. Society steps in, creating imperfect replacements to the State.

In Bihar, one of them was local strongmen. In When Crime Pays, the political scientist Milan Vaishnav writes about Anant Kumar Singh, the leader from the bhumihar caste in Mokama near Patna and bahubali, local strongman. Despite the many criminal cases against him, people voted for Singh as he got their work done in a town where the government functioning was weak.

Then, there were market actors, like the Career Plan Coaching Centre. Located in Geetwas, a small village near Araria in north-eastern Bihar, it was not much to look at – a tiny room, perhaps four by three metres, tightly packed with benches and desks, housed in an unplastered brick structure whose other half was a garage. It offered tuitions for students between classes eight and twelve.

But, as Gautam Kumar, a mathematics graduate in his mid-twenties who set up the centre after failing to qualify for a junior government post, explained, he did not merely provide supplementary education to students lagging in one or two subjects. He taught the entire school curriculum. Bihar’s education landscape was packed with entrepreneurs like Gautam Kumar. They operated a wide range of establishments, from teaching institutions located in village shacks to coaching centres in towns and cities to plush air-conditioned schools.

A third set was non-governmental organisations. The WHO and the union government’s IDSP kept tabs on the state’s disease burden. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was working on fertility, malnourishment, and IMR and MMR reductions. Others like the international NGOs Engender and Jhpiego worked on family planning and population stabilisation. The resulting outcome, a matrix of State failure and imperfect alternatives, shaped everyday life in Bihar.

Source: https://scroll.in/article/983987/in-bihar-an-absent-state-has-pushed-its-people-into-coming-up-with-imperfect-replacements

2.

666. Given below is a possible inference that can be drawn from the facts stated in the first paragraph. You have to examine the inference in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

“Stereotypes are harder to remove than the reason behind their existence.”

Question 4

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Like remoras to a whale, narratives cling to every state. They persist long after they stop being true. Punjab is the state of cancer, drugs and the Green Revolution. Tamil Nadu has excellent public delivery of healthcare and education. In Bihar, Nitish Kumar is Sushasan, Good Governance, Babu even though the State remains absent.

This void does not stay empty for long. Society steps in, creating imperfect replacements to the State.

In Bihar, one of them was local strongmen. In When Crime Pays, the political scientist Milan Vaishnav writes about Anant Kumar Singh, the leader from the bhumihar caste in Mokama near Patna and bahubali, local strongman. Despite the many criminal cases against him, people voted for Singh as he got their work done in a town where the government functioning was weak.

Then, there were market actors, like the Career Plan Coaching Centre. Located in Geetwas, a small village near Araria in north-eastern Bihar, it was not much to look at – a tiny room, perhaps four by three metres, tightly packed with benches and desks, housed in an unplastered brick structure whose other half was a garage. It offered tuitions for students between classes eight and twelve.

But, as Gautam Kumar, a mathematics graduate in his mid-twenties who set up the centre after failing to qualify for a junior government post, explained, he did not merely provide supplementary education to students lagging in one or two subjects. He taught the entire school curriculum. Bihar’s education landscape was packed with entrepreneurs like Gautam Kumar. They operated a wide range of establishments, from teaching institutions located in village shacks to coaching centres in towns and cities to plush air-conditioned schools.

A third set was non-governmental organisations. The WHO and the union government’s IDSP kept tabs on the state’s disease burden. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was working on fertility, malnourishment, and IMR and MMR reductions. Others like the international NGOs Engender and Jhpiego worked on family planning and population stabilisation. The resulting outcome, a matrix of State failure and imperfect alternatives, shaped everyday life in Bihar.

Source: https://scroll.in/article/983987/in-bihar-an-absent-state-has-pushed-its-people-into-coming-up-with-imperfect-replacements

Which of the following statements will strengthen the following sentence as given in the passage?

Then, there were market actors, like the Career Plan Coaching Centre.

Question 5

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.
The right to life enshrined in the Constitution does not cease to be fundamental behind the closed doors of the prison. Being the custodians, it is the responsibility of the jail authorities to ensure a life of dignity and security to the prison inmates and protect them from any form of violence whether in the hands of jail staff or inmates. Overcrowding, inadequate resources, lack of basic amenities, poor medical aid, characterise jail life. In such dismal conditions, the minimum that is expected from the jail authorities is to guarantee right to life and freedom from torture to jail inmates.

Question 6

Direction: Read the given passage carefully. Choose the most appropriate option from the given alternatives which expresses the summary of the passage.
The economic weight of the world has already shifted in China and India’s direction. It will continue to do so as their economic reforms move forward. By 2030, China and India, respectively, are expected to be the first and third largest economies in the world, with the largest middle classes that U.S. companies will wish to sell to. They will lead the world in demand for natural resources and energy.

Question 7

Direction: In each question, a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage coherent.
Anyone who has played improvisational music with others is familiar with the virtuoso who has great skill and expertise but bad social sensitivity. In performance, he tears into melodic acrobatics, but never listens enough to know when to stop, or hand it over to another player, or modify and adapt to the aural environment. His narcissism undoes his own musicality ________.

Question 8

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the emboldened part are given as (A), (B), (C) and (D), which may help improve the sentence. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer will be option (E), i.e. no correction is required.
The City manager rejected suggestions his team to be considered favourites to win the competition after inflicting the first Champions League knockout tie defeat of Zinedine Zidane’s coaching career.

Question 9

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the emboldened part are given as (A), (B), (C) and (D), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative out of the given five options. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer will be option (E), i.e., "No correction required".
All the members of the company’s high level panel started shouting at each other.

Question 10

Direction: In the given question, there are five sentences A, B, C, D and E, which when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) The Citizenship Amendment Bill, according to the government, is rooted in humanitarian concerns: it will offer refuge to people fleeing religious persecution.

B) Yet these concerns are remarkably selective, restricted to Hindus, Buddhists, Parsis, Sikhs, Jains and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

C) Undocumented migrants from such communities will be eligible for citizenship under the new bill. 

D) But Muslims, such as Shias and Ahmadis, facing religious persecution in these countries are pointedly left out. 

E) So are refugees from Myanmar, including thousands of Rohingya who fled ethnic cleansing, and Sri Lanka, where thousands of Tamil refugees were forced out by civil war. 

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