Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only conclusion I follows.

If the economy depends chiefly on forests, then preserving the trees serves the economy - conclusion I. Conclusion II adds the word only, claiming that maintaining forests is all India wants, which the statement does not say. Only I follows.

Answer: E

Correct answer: Both I and II follows.

Bacon’s saying assigns each activity its effect: writing makes a man exact, which is conclusion I’s pointed and precise expression; and reading makes him full, which is conclusion II’s complete man. Both follow.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only conclusion I follows.

To say that modern man shapes his destiny by his choices unlike in the past implies that fewer choices were open earlier - conclusion I. Conclusion II denies that people in the past even wished to influence their destiny, of which nothing is said. Only I follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion I follows

If most of the states existed before independence, then certainly some did - conclusion I follows with no further assumption. Conclusion II requires reading “most” as “not all”, which is an implication of ordinary speech rather than something the statement asserts. Only I follows.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither I or II follows

The statement judges books that lack knowledge of life to be useless. Conclusion I says the opposite - that all books contain such knowledge. Conclusion II turns the remark into advice about how people should live, which it does not give. Neither follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows.

To speak of governments that refuse people liberty and the right to dissent is to treat those as things the people want and are being denied - conclusion II. Conclusion I says the opposite, that people are indifferent to them. Only II follows.

Answer: E

Correct answer: Both I and II follows

A college does not start such a cell without the staff and space to run it - conclusion I - nor without a demand for what it offers, which is conclusion II. Both follow.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows.

If fashion must be altered every six months, it is because people will not stay with the same thing - conclusion II, their appetite for novelty. Conclusion I blames the designers’ grasp of the public mind, whereas the remark suggests they read it only too well. Only II follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows.

The statement makes economic equality the condition on which political freedom and democracy become meaningful, which is conclusion II. Conclusion I asserts a link between political freedom and democracy that is never argued; they are merely named together. Only II follows.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Both I and II are strong.

Both arguments bear directly on the question and both are weighty. New industry would indeed create employment, which matters in a city that needs it; and heavy industry would indeed add to Kolkata’s pollution, which is already a serious problem. Each addresses a real consequence of the decision, so both are strong.