Passage 1

Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below
(Question No. 1-6)

Current women's activist hypothesis, in approving ladies' own accounts of their experience,
has supported researchers of ladies' set of experiences to see the utilization of ladies' oral
stories as the technique, close to the utilization of ladies' composed self-portrayal, that brings
students of history nearest to the "truth" of ladies' lives such accounts, in contrast to most
standard narratives, address insight from the viewpoint of ladies, certify the significance of
ladies' commitments, and outfit present - day ladies with authentic progression that is crucial
for their personality, separately and by and large. Researchers of ladies' set of experiences
ought to, nonetheless, be as careful about tolerating oral accounts at face an incentive as they
are now about composed recollections oral stories are not any more likely than are composed
stories to give an unbiased critique on occasions or individuals. Also, the tales individuals
advise to account for themselves are melded by account gadgets and narrating shows, just as
by other social and chronicled factors, in manners that the narrators might be uninformed of
the political way of talking of a specific time, for instance, may impact Ladies' translations of
the meaning of their experience. Hence, a lady who sees the Subsequent World Battle as
significant in expanding the social acknowledgment of ladies' paid work outside the home
may arrive at that resolution incompletely and accidentally on account of wartime manner of
speaking empowering a positive perspective on ladies' investment in such work.

1. As per the passage, researchers of ladies' set of experiences should cease from doing
which of the accompanying?

a. Attempting to find the social and chronicled factors that impact the accounts
ladies tell
b. Relying on customary authentic sources when ladies' oral stories are inaccessible
c. accepting ladies' oral stories less fundamentally than they acknowledge ladies'
composed chronicles
d. Focusing because of political way of talking on ladies' insights to the rejection of
other similarly significant elements

Answer. c
Explanation: Answering this question requires perceiving which alternative is
straightforwardly inferable from data in the passage. Subsequent to depicting in the main
section because oral accounts are interesting to antiquarians, the passage starts the second
passage by entreating researchers of ladies' set of experiences to be as mindful about
tolerating oral stories ... as ... composed recollections. The passage at that point proceeds to
portray likely predisposition in oral stories, proposing that researchers ought to be
reproachful of them as they are of composed sources, (b) passage doesn't guarantee that
conventional verifiable sources ought to be evaded by researchers. (d) The passage makes
reference to the impact of political manner of speaking just as one illustration of expected
inclination. (a) The passage recommends that researchers should endeavour to know about
social and chronicled factors. (c) Right. The passage infers that composed chronicles and oral
stories ought to get similar degree of basic investigation by researchers. Henceforth, the
answer is (c).

2. The passage is principally worried about

a. showing that a few history specialists’ reception of a specific approach has

prompted analysis of late verifiable grant
b. discussing the allure of a specific strategy and a few worries about its utilization
c. describing the authentic sources and innate disadvantages of a specific procedure
d. contrasting the advantages of a technique with the advantages of another

Answer. b

Explanation: This question requests a theoretical perspective on what the passage in general
is fundamentally doing. The passage presents a specific philosophy that researchers of ladies'
set of experiences have been urged to utilize, clarifying why the utilization of the technique is
upheld. The passage at that point proceeds to raise a few worries about the utilization of the
strategy and refers to model in which alert is required. (d) passage is essentially worried
about just a philosophy (c) The passage specifies why the system had been energized
however doesn't give the historical backdrop of its roots, while it alerts antiquarians to utilize
the procedure cautiously, it isn't worried about disadvantages of its legitimate use. (b) Right.
The passage examines why the utilization of a procedure is being empowered and afterward
offers a few worries about its utilization (a) The passage doesn't talk about any analysis of
ongoing grant in ladies' set of experiences Subsequently, the answer is (b).
3. the author of the passage would be destined to make which of the Accompanying
proposals to researchers of ladies' set of experiences?

a. They should treat distrustfully perceptions announced in oral accounts except if

the perceptions can be affirmed in standard chronicles
b. They should consider their own background when deciphering the oral records of
ladies' authentic encounters.
c. They ought to consider the social and recorded setting where an oral story was
made prior to showing up at a translation of a particularly account.
d. They ought to expect that the perceptions were made in ladies' oral stories are
accepted by the target group of the story.

Answer. c

Explanation: Answering this question includes perceiving what the author accepts about oral
accounts and afterward applying this conviction to a theoretical circumstance wherein the
author makes proposals to researchers of ladies' set of experiences. While recognizing the
allure of oral stories to these researchers, in the second passage the author urges alert when
utilizing these accounts as wellsprings of unbiased editorial. The passage at that point
expresses that individuals' oral accounts are formed by social and chronicled factors, which
apparently identify with the social and authentic setting inside which the stories are spoken
(b) the passage doesn't specify the individual beneficial encounters of researchers. (d) The
passage doesn't make reference to the target groups of oral accounts. (a) The passage
specifies standard chronicles just as a source of perspective to academic works that regularly
have weaknesses (c) Right. The passage alerts that oral accounts might be one-sided because
of social and recorded variables, and it is along these lines sensible to assume that the author
would suggest that researchers consider this when utilizing such data.

4. As indicated by the passage, every one of coming up next is a distinction between

ladies' oral accounts and most standard narratives with the exception of:

a. Women's oral accounts present todays ladies with a feeling of their recorded
relationship to ladies of the past
b. Women's oral accounts recognizing the impact of notable ladies.
c. Women's oral narratives approve the meaning of ladies' accomplishments.
d. Women's oral narratives portraying experience according to the perspective of
ladies
Answer. b

Explanation: This question requests data that is expressed in the passage, and it requires a
cycle of disposal. In the passage, oral accounts are introduced as being mike most standard
chronicles, and the passage at that point goes on in the passage to list attributes of oral
narratives that most standard accounts don't have. The answer to this question will
accordingly contain a trait of Ladies' oral chronicles that isn't portrayed in the passage. (c)
The passage expresses that, in contrast to most standard accounts, ladies' oral narratives
fallout significance of ladies' commitments. (d) The passage expresses that, in contrast to
most standard accounts, ladies' oral chronicles address insight from the viewpoint of ladies.
(b) Right. The passage doesn't make reference to the impact of well - known ladies on ladies'
oral narratives (a) The passage expresses that, in contrast to most standard accounts, ladies’
oral chronicles outfit present - day ladies with authentic progression. consequently, the
answer is (b)

5. as indicated by the passage, which of the accompanying shapes the oral stories of
lady’s narrators!

a. A lady narrator's experience with the accounts that individuals from different
gatherings in her way of life advise to account for themselves
b. the shows for standard accounts in the way of life in which a lady narrator lives
c. The social assumptions and encounters of the individuals who tune in to oral stories
d. the shows of narrating in the way of life in which a lady narrator lives

Answer. d

Explanation: This question requests a distinguishing proof of explicit data given by the
passage. In the subsequent section, the passage portrays certain worries about utilizing oral
stories. One of these worries is that the tales individuals advise to account for themselves are
moulded by narrating shows and different impacts attached to the teller's social and
chronicled setting. (b) The passage utilizes standard chronicles to allude to the typical work
of researchers and not to something that impacts oral accounts (d) Right. The passage raises
as a worry that oral accounts might be impacted by narrating shows present in the way of life
of the speaker (c) The passage doesn't make reference to the assumptions for the audience
members of oral stories. (a) The passage doesn't talk about lady’s narrator's knowledge of the
oral accounts having a place with different gatherings of ladies. Henceforth, the answer is (d).
6. Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?

a. It illustrates the point that some women are more aware than others of the social
forces that shape their oral narratives
b. It provides an example of an oral narrative that inaccurately describes women's
experience during a particular historical period
c. it describes an event that historians view as important in recent women's history
d. It provides an example of how political rhetoric may influence the interpretations of
experience reported in women's oral narratives.

Answer. d

Explanation: this question requires recognizing how a particular part of the passage is
related to the overall reasoning in the passage. The first paragraph introduces a methodology
and describes the methodology's appeal. The second paragraph then raises concerns about
the use of the methodology, drawing attention to the cultural and historical bias that may be
present in oral narratives. In the passage refers specifically to the influence political rhetoric
may have on a woman's understanding of her experience. In the final sentence, the passage
provides a specific hypothetical example of woman at the time of the Second World War to
illustrate this concern. (c) The last sentence employs a hypothetical example and does not
describe a particular event as being important to historians. (d) Correct. After contending
that political rhetoric may influence oral narratives, the passage uses the example of the
Second World War in the final sentence to support this claim (b) The last sentence does not
provide a particular example of an oral narrative. (a) the passage does not claim that some
women are more aware than others of the social forces that may bear on them. hence, the
answer is (d).

Passage 2

Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below
(Question No. 7-10)

The idea of imaginative society 'alludes to a period of improvement of a general public

wherein countless potential logical inconsistencies become lucid and dynamic. This is most
obvious when persecuted social gatherings get politically assembled and request their
privileges. The upsurge of the workers and ancestral, the developments for provincial self-
governance and self - assurance, the natural developments, and the ladies' developments in
the agricultural nations are indications of rise of innovative society in contemporary
occasions. The types of social developments and their power may differ from country to
country and all around inside a country. In any case, the actual presence of developments for
social change in different circles of a general public demonstrates the rise of an imaginative
society in a country.

7. What as indicated by the passage are the signs of social developments?

I. Urge for allowing advantages and self - regard to decried areas of the general
public.
II. Aggressiveness and being combustible.
III. Quest for social uniformity and individual opportunity.
IV. Instigation by outside powers.

Select the right answer utilizing the codes given underneath:

I. I and IV
II. I and III
III. I, II, III and IV
IV. III and IV

Answer. a

Explanation: As per passage Prompting by outside powers (social gathering get

strategically) and "ask for giving rights and self-esteem to criticized segment of the general
public" are appearances of social developments.

8. What does the author infer by "imaginative society"?

I. A society where an enormous number of inconsistencies are perceived

II. A society where different fine arts and artistic works look for motivating force
III. A society where the abused and the mistreated gatherings become aware of their
common freedoms and upliftment.
IV. A society where social disparities are acknowledged as the standard.

Select the right answer utilizing the codes given beneath

a. IV only
b. I, II and III
c. II and IV
 d. I and III

Answer. d

Explanation: (d) II and IV is wiped out as "artistic expression isn't referenced in the passage.
Social imbalances are not acknowledged. Just I and III are referenced

9. Concerning the passage, think about the accompanying articulations

I. The need of great importance is to have a changing government

II. The need of great importance is to have an empowering government.

which of the statements given above is/are right?

a. I only
b. II only
c. Both I and II
d. Neither I nor II

Answer. d

Explanation: (a) Solitary statement II is valid as the need of great importance is to have an
empowering government and the assertion I is go past the passage.

10. Concerning the passage, think about the accompanying explanations:

I. To be an imaginative society, it is fundamental to have an assortment of social

developments.
II. To be an inventive society, it is basic to have likely logical inconsistencies and
clashes.

Which of the statements given above is/are right?

a. I only
b. II only
c. Neither I nor II
d. Both I and II

Answer. d

Explanation: (D) Statement l is right as expressed in the passage "The types of .... in a
country Proclamation II is right as period of improvement dynamic "
Passage 3

(Question No. 11-15)

Presently India's kids reserve an option to get at any rate long periods of instruction, the
biting question is whether it will stay on paper or become a reality. One barely need an
update that this privilege is not the same as the others cherished in the Constitution, that the
recipient - a six-year-old kid can't request it nor she or he take on a legitimate conflict when
the privilege is denied or abused. Altogether cases, it is the grown-up society which should
follow up for the benefit of the youngster. In another eccentricity, where a youngster's
entitlement to schooling is denied, no remuneration offered later can be sufficient or
significant. This is so on the grounds that adolescence doesn't last. On the off chance that a
fight in court battled in the interest of a youngster is in the end won, it very well might be of
little use to the kid or young lady on the grounds that the chance missed at school during
adolescence can't fill a similar need further down the road. This might be horrendously valid
for young ladies on the grounds that our general public licenses them just a short youth, if by
any means. The Privilege to Schooling (RTE) has become law at a point in India's set of
experiences when the shocking act of female child murder has remerged as foeticide. This is
"indicative of a more profound strife in the public eye which is intensifying the customary
impediments to the training of young ladies. Persevering bias against the scholarly capability
of young ladies’ stumbles into our social variety and the arrangement of training has not had
the option to address it."

11. Which one of the accompanying assertions passes on the induction of the passage?

a.The lawful battle to get schooling for youngsters is regularly extended and restrictive.
b. The society has a diligent bias against the scholarly capability of young ladies.
c.There is no adequate substitute for instruction got in youth.
d. Adults can't be depended upon to battle in the interest of youngsters for their
entitlement to schooling

Answer. b

Explanation: (b) Since young lady's schooling is the key back rub, thus, bias against the
scholarly capability of young ladies.

12. Which one of the accompanying assertions passes on the vital message of the
passage?
 a. The arrangement of instruction should address the issue of Right to Schooling
b. India has proclaimed that schooling is mandatory for its kids.
c. The Right to Instruction, especially of a young lady kid, should be protected.
d. Adult society isn't enthusiastic about executing the Privilege to Training.

Answer. d

Explanation: (d) Statement (d) is right as the passage plainly expresses that" This might be
agonizingly if by any stretch of the imagination.

13. As indicated by the passage, what could be the customary impediments to the
training of young ladies?

i. The bias against the scholarly capability of young ladies.

ii. Inability of guardians to take on a lawful conflict when the Privilege to Training is
denied to their kids.
iii. Improper arrangement of schooling.
iv. The customary perspective about young ladies' job society

Select the right answer from the codes given beneath:

a.I and II as it were

b. I, II, III and IV
c.II, III and IV as it were
d. I, III, and IV as it were

Answer. d

Explanation: (d) Statement II isn't right as not expressed by the passage. Statement I and IV
are right as expressed in passage "This is to the schooling of young ladies." Statement III is
right as the defective instruction situation.

14. Concerning the passage, think about the accompanying explanations:

I. Right to Training as a law can't be authorized in the country.

II. When kids are denied training, grown-up society doesn't follow up in the interest of
them.

which of the statements given above is/are right?

a. I only
 b. II only
c. Both I and II
d. Neither I nor II

Answer. b

Explanation: (b) Statement II is right as passage plainly states "On the whole cases, it is
the ... sake of the youngster."

15. Based on the passage, think about the accompanying articulations:

I. For understanding the objective of all-inclusive instruction, the training framework in

the nation should be made indistinguishable from that of created nations.
II. Right to Schooling is a legitimate right and not a principal right

Which of the statements given above is/are right?

a. I only
b. II only
c. Both I and II
d. Neither I nor II

Answer. b

Explanation: Statement II is right as expressed in the passage one scarcely needs denied or
disregarded. "Statement I is unimportant as evolved nations have not been referenced in the
passage.