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Preliminary exam CSAT July 06,2024

1. Read the following passage and answer these items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

Passage-

By the time children reach class 8, the bulk of them tend to be in the age range of 13 years to 15 years. But in our country, about a quarter of all children in class 8 struggle with reading simple texts and more than half are still unable to do basic arithmetic operations like division. Every year about 25 million young boys and girls from elementary school move into the life that lies for them beyond compulsory schooling. They cannot enter the workforce at least in the organized sector till they are 18. For many families, these children are the first from their families ever to get this far in school. Parents and children expect that such ‘graduates’ from school will go on to high school and college. Hardly anyone wants to go back to agriculture. On the other hand, abilities in terms of academic competencies are far lower than they should be even based on curricular expectations of class 8.

Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

For effective school education, parents have greater role than the governments.

School curriculum that conforms to today’s requirements and is uniform for the entire country may address the issues brought out

Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?

1 only 2 only Both 1 and 2 Neither 1 nor 2

General Studies

Political Science and International Relations

Sociology

Some Reference Essays

List of previous year essay topics (1997-2019)

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