Q42·CSAT · Prelims 2024

Evaluating assumptions about aging populations

Reading Comp.Society / Demographics passageStatement-based● Medium

Question

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

1As a large number of workers in our country are employed in unorganized sector, India does not need to change its present conventional classroom system of education.

2Even with its present conventional classroom system of education, India produces sufficient number of skilled workers to fully realize the benefits of demographic dividend.

Options

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

Answer

Explanation

Evaluate the underlying structural premises of the options:

Statement 1 links the "unorganized sector" to preserving the status quo. The unorganized sector is completely unmentioned in the passage [cite: 1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1706], and the author explicitly advocates for educational reform, not against it [cite: 1701, 1706].

Statement 2 claims India already produces a "sufficient number of skilled workers". This directly contradicts the author's data point that the current model leaves many behind , resulting in a dismal "10 percent employability in our graduates". Both assumptions are completely invalid.

Eliminate assumption statements that run completely counter to the primary alarm raised by the author's explicit statistics.

Answer: (d).

Question details

Year

2024

Paper

CSAT

Question

Q42

Section

Reading Comprehension

Sub-topic

Society / Demographics passage

Type

Statement-based

Difficulty

Medium

Source hint

Passage-based comprehension

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