Questions

Winner of 2015 "United Nations Champions of the Earth" award in the category Policy Leadership is ___.

Who was appointed as the Managing Director of International Monetary Fund for 5 years starting July 5, 2016?

The surface area (in sq.cm.) of a sphere with radius 1 cm is :(pi = 22/7)

After his stint as the Reserve Bank Governor, which University in USA did Raghuram Rajan join as professor of Finance?

Knife is an example for

Article 43A of the Indian Constitution "Participation of workers in management of industries" deals with?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The examination system is an opiate because

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

The bigger a group the less are the chances of an individual (get) the requisite attention when necessary.