Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: Sports play an important role in psychological development and social well-being of a child.

The passage lists what children gain from playing: getting along with peers, interacting with coaches and elders, sportsmanship in victory and defeat, and sharing a team’s success. Those are social and psychological gains rather than physical ones, which is exactly what this option claims. The option about meeting more people captures only a fragment, and the other two concern attitudes to physical activity, a different subject.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The reservation system has received a mixed response from Indians since its inception.

The passage is one side of an argument: it calls the beneficiaries’ case unacceptable, says reservation destroys self-respect, and asks whether the children of professors and MPs should be covered. The existence of a case being rejected, and a question being pressed, is evidence that opinion is divided. The stronger options - that India never needs reservation, or that the policy was a mistake - go further than a passage that only questions its extension.

Answer: C

Correct answer: A more motivational experience for other youth to join and become a part of the community.

The passage describes school initiatives that build interest in politics, a perception being changed, and students taking politics as a career and helping to promote the cause. Students who change the perception and promote the cause are precisely an example that motivates other young people to join. The other options are critical of education or of the educated, which is the opposite of the passage’s tone.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Satellite technology has strengthened all Communication Media as well as gives trigger to various fields.

The passage names the objectives of the Indian space programme - communication, meteorology, resource survey and management, satellites, launch vehicles and ground systems - and says impressive progress has been made since. A programme advancing on all those fronts is one that has strengthened communication and stimulated several other fields, which is what this option says.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The Effect of Parent Behavior on Children's Discipline.

The passage sets two parenting styles side by side and gives the consequence of each: authoritarian control producing aggressive, rebellious children with poor self-esteem, and uninvolved parenting producing no real discipline at all. Both halves link the parents’ behaviour to the child’s discipline, which is what this option names. Visual media and parents’ jobs are not mentioned.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Teaching Girls how to set boundaries for themselves.

The whole passage is instruction: use ‘I’ statements, state the consequence of a future violation, and follow through, because limits not enforced are not taken seriously. That is a method for setting boundaries, addressed to teenage girls. The option about boundaries varying by person and context is a true general remark the passage never makes, and the other two shift to the wider position of women.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Smaller classes are just one tool for literacy teachers, and they may prove most beneficial in targeting and intervening among key student populations.

The passage is deliberately qualified. Smaller first-grade classes gave better literacy performance and class size predicts outcomes, but the writer calls small classes no magic bullet, notes the puzzling finding of lower engagement, and says their value lies in letting teachers adjust to diverse individual needs. This option carries that qualification; the option naming the effect of class size on literacy states the topic but not the passage’s conclusion.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The youngster may attach the approval to self-esteem and begin to believe that performance and achievement defines who he is and his overall worth.

The passage describes a shift in motivation: strong parental approval for performance leads the child to attach so much importance to ability that mistakes become blows to his self-worth and identity. This option restates that shift. The other three describe injuries, parents living out their own ambitions, and parents taking over the activity - real problems, but not the one this passage traces.

Answer: A

Correct answer: encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.

Read the second sentence closely. Members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and organisational objectives are pursued as means of achieving these personal goals. The personal goal is the end; the organisational goal is the route to it.

That ordering is the whole point of the passage, and only the keyed option states it. The passage never claims motivation is necessary for survival, never traces it to physical and mental energy, and calls it a common denominator inside the organisation rather than an external force.

Answer: C

Correct answer: smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

The passage opens with cause and effect: because of the enormous profits, hundreds have been drawn to smuggling and some became millionaires overnight. It then adds that seizures notwithstanding, the smugglers still made huge profits - so the incentive survives enforcement.

The other options are judgements the passage never makes. It does not discuss economic damage, does not say smuggling ought to be curbed, and describes enforcement as occasional raids rather than strict measures.