Exams

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 author considers specialization as :

An arc of 30° in one circle is double an arc in a second circle, the radius of which is three times the radius of the first. Then the angles subtended by the arc of the second circle at its centre is

Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

One who tends to patronize, rebuff or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire people regarded as social superiors

What is the effective discount (in %) on two successive discounts of 20% and 10%?

A piece of paper is folded and punched as shown below in the question figures. From the given answer figures, indicate how it will appear when opened?

Which one among the following administers the International Development Association (IDA)?

In a certain code language, “PROP” is written as “67” and “RATE” is written as “46”. How is “MOCK” written in that code language?

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

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