Situation Reaction Test Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The keyed response is to pay the taxes and get an invoice.

Taxes such as GST are legally payable on a sale and are collected by the seller for the government. Insisting on an invoice and paying the tax ensures that the tax actually reaches the exchequer and gives the buyer a record for warranty or complaints.

Leaving without an invoice, or celebrating a lower price, helps the shopkeeper evade tax. Advising friends to do the same spreads tax evasion. (If the tax demanded seems excessive, the invoice itself shows the rate charged, so it can be checked.)

Answer: C

You should give up your seat and ask the elderly man to sit down.

Offering one's own seat to an elderly passenger is the direct, courteous response, and it solves the problem at once.

Ignoring him is inconsiderate. Asking the conductor to find a seat shifts your responsibility to someone else when no seats are free anyway. Suggesting that he get off the bus is rude and unhelpful.

Answer: C

You should reach the auditorium and sit wherever seats are available.

The seating is first come, first served, so arriving late means accepting the seats that remain. That respects the rule and the people who came on time.

Asking a friend to reserve seats for latecomers defeats the first-come rule. Fighting with the authorities is aggressive and unjustified, and jumping traffic signals is illegal and dangerous.

Answer: D

The examiner should keep the concerned student under vigilance and verify if the doubt is actually true.

A doubt is not proof. Watching the student closely lets the examiner confirm or dismiss the suspicion before taking action, which is fair to the student and protects the exam.

Shouting disturbs the whole room and accuses without evidence. Relocating the student is a penalty imposed before anything is established. Telling nearby students about the doubt spreads suspicion and distracts candidates.

Answer: D

The teacher should tell the student that at the moment they don't know the answer, but will try to find an answer for him.

Honesty preserves the teacher's credibility and models a good attitude to learning: no one knows everything, and the right response is to find out.

Scolding the student punishes curiosity. A roundabout answer that hides ignorance is dishonest and may mislead the class. A counter-question that sends the student off to read more avoids the question rather than answering it.

Answer: C

The keyed response is to investigate and arrest the in-laws if deemed necessary, and frame charges against the man for paying dowry.

Under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, both giving and taking dowry are offences. The complaint of domestic violence must be investigated and acted on, but the complainant has also admitted to paying dowry, which a police officer cannot overlook.

Arresting the in-laws right away skips the investigation. Investigating the in-laws alone ignores the father's own offence. Counselling him to negotiate with the in-laws abandons the victim of domestic violence.

Answer: B

The keyed response is to try to understand the situation, apprise her of your opinion and suggest she decide to approach the appropriate authority immediately.

Harassment at the workplace has a formal remedy, the Internal Complaints Committee under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013. A supportive colleague listens, gives an honest view and encourages her to use that remedy promptly, while leaving the decision to her.

Making the complaint depend on whether you personally agree second-guesses her experience. Asking her to bear it for fear of a bad name discourages a legitimate complaint. Telling others spreads gossip and breaches her privacy.

Answer: B

The teacher should report four boys forcefully trying to open another boy's backpack.

Bullying is repeated aggression by a group or a stronger child against a weaker one. Several boys forcing open another child's bag is exactly that kind of intimidation, and it is the matter the Principal asked the teacher to watch for.

A girl crying alone may need care but is not evidence of who is bullying. Girls playing catch is ordinary play. Boys with a mobile phone break a school rule, but that is a different issue from bullying.

Answer: C

The keyed response is to ask the student to come to the staff room during school time and answer his questions.

This balances both duties: the student's questions are encouraged and answered, so he can catch up on what he missed by joining late, while class time is kept for the syllabus that the rest of the class needs. Meeting in the staff room during school hours keeps the help within the teacher's professional role.

Ignoring his questions abandons a struggling student. Answering everything in class holds up the whole class and the syllabus. Asking him home after school for private tuition crosses a professional boundary and invites a conflict of interest.

Answer: A

The keyed response is to immediately inform the Police, ask them for instructions on how to handle the situation and act accordingly.

A bomb threat must be treated as real even if earlier ones were hoaxes, and the people trained to judge and handle it are the police and bomb disposal squad. Informing them at once and following their instructions avoids both ignoring a real danger and causing harm through a badly handled evacuation.

Announcing a bomb threat to the audience risks a stampede. Ordering an evacuation on your own without informing the police leaves the threat itself unhandled, and doing nothing because of past hoaxes gambles with lives.