Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: b

The statement records a state tax on salaries, and the only thing that can be drawn from it without adding anything is (b): if the state is already taxing income, the centre should not be taxing it too - the same income being taxed twice. The others define income tax, prescribe how slabs should work, or lay down rules the statement gives no ground for.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows.

Both conclusions confuse eligibility with selection. Meeting the condition entitles a candidate to apply; it does not put anyone on the selected list, which will depend on the selection process. Neither follows.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows.

Conclusion I stretches one luxury into all of them - that good health is dear in country Z says nothing about what else its people can afford. Conclusion II calls health a gift of nature, which contradicts the statement’s picture of it as something bought. Neither follows.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Neither conclusion I nor II follows

Conclusion II flatly contradicts the statement, which says growth comes through stimulation and action. Conclusion I introduces the idea of an inert organism, a case the statement does not consider - it describes how growth happens, not what happens in its absence. Neither follows.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Neither Conclusion I nor II follows.

The proverb says that need is the test of friendship. Conclusion I asserts that everyone is a friend in good times, and conclusion II brings in enemies - neither of which the saying states. Neither follows.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows

Both conclusions turn a general remark into an absolute. That money matters in politics does not mean the poor can never enter it, nor that all rich men do. Neither follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows

With 150 beds per thousand against a norm of 100, the state is comfortably ahead of the requirement, so conclusion II follows. Conclusion I judges the norm itself, and one state exceeding it says nothing about whether the norm is set at the right level. Only II follows.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Only conclusion I follows

If self-discipline is the key to order, then disorder points to its absence - which is conclusion I. Conclusion II claims that nobody in society has self-discipline, which the statement neither says nor implies. Only I follows.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of the above

That the constitution assures fundamental rights and that Parliament may amend it are two separate facts. Neither conclusion follows: the power to amend does not mean Parliament put the rights there, and the constitution assuring them says nothing about what Parliament did or did not do. None of the above.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither conclusion I nor II follows

Calling the sun a source of light does not make it the only one. Conclusion I singles out the moon, which the statement never mentions, and conclusion II turns one source into the sole source. Neither follows.