Discussion
Read the following statements :
Assertion (A) : Girls in middle school might often be silent and non-participative in classroom discussions.
Reason (R) : Given their genetic makeup girls are not competent to comprehend and cope up with the challenging curriculum in middle schools.
Choose the correct option.
Answer: D
The key marks both (A) and (R) as false. Reason (R) is certainly false; the key's treatment of (A) is the debatable part.
(R) blames girls' genetic makeup for an inability to cope with the middle-school curriculum. Research and the NCERT view of gender give no support to that: differences in classroom participation are explained by socialisation, expectations and the classroom climate, not by girls being less capable. So (R) is false, and options 1 and 2, which need (R) true, are out.
(A) says girls in middle school might often be silent in discussions. Read as a statement that this can happen, it describes a pattern teachers do report, which would make (A) true and give option 3. The key instead treats (A) as the stereotype that girls are silent and marks it false, so it credits option 4. I could not find a source that settles which reading the Board intended, so the answer here is the official key, with that reservation: option 3 is the nearest rival.
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