Deriving Conclusions From Passages Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely false

The passage says not even one percent of the 63,000 primary schools have facilities of furniture, toilet, drinking water and games. One percent of 63,000 is 630, and ‘not even one percent’ means fewer than that number have them. The statement claims exactly 630 do, which is more than the passage allows, so it is contradicted by the figure given.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely false

The passage closes by saying each of the 63,000 primary schools now has at least two teachers. If every school has two or more, then no school has one, and a large number of one-teacher schools is impossible. The recent appointment of 3,113 new teachers is the change that brought this about, which is why the passage marks it with the word ‘now’.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage counts children, not parents: over six million children born to lower income group parents remain unlettered. The number of parents is a different quantity - several children may share a pair of parents, and parents whose children are literate are not counted at all. The passage gives no basis for converting one figure into the other.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage gives one figure about women teachers: of the 3,113 appointed in the current financial year, 2,747 are women, which is about 88 percent of that year’s intake. That says nothing about the composition of the whole teaching force, which was built up over many years. A single year’s recruitment cannot establish the overall proportion.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage gives two numbers that look relevant and are not. Over 50 percent of schools have pupils reading in the open, which is a fact about schools rather than about children; and over six million children of lower income group parents remain unlettered, which is a count rather than a proportion. Without the total number of children in Bihar no percentage can be worked out.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Probably true

The passage says pupils in over 50 percent of the schools read in the open throughout the year. Pupils taught outdoors all year round almost certainly have no adequate classroom, and over half the schools is most of them. The passage does not say the classrooms are inadequate - that is the reader’s inference from where the teaching happens - so probably true is the correct strength.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Probably true

The passage says liberalization and globalization have put pressures on Indian industry, particularly on the service sector, forcing it to compete with unequal partners from abroad. Pressure and unequal competition arriving with liberalization implies an easier position before it. That is a fair reading rather than a stated fact - the passage never describes the earlier period - so probably true is as far as it goes.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Definitely true

The passage says Indian service organisations have to compete with unequal partners from abroad, and that developing countries like India are already behind other countries technologically in many areas. Unequal partners who are ahead technologically are better equipped to deliver quality at low cost and high speed, which is what the passage says the sector is under pressure to offer.

Answer: D

It is mentioned in the passage that though India boasts of huge technical manpower,yet it lags behind other countries in technology. Thus, it is quite probable that India is in no way at par with the developed countries in terms of technological development.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage describes the burden of negotiating with the local bureaucracy in India and its dampening effect on business. It makes no comparison with any other country. To say formalities are less cumbersome almost everywhere else requires information about those other countries, and the passage supplies none - describing one country’s difficulty is not a comparison.