Question : The Mandal Commission recommended reservations for OBCs in which sectors?  
 

Option 1: Agriculture and Industry  
 

Option 2: Education and Government Employment  
 

Option 3: Health and Transportation  

Option 4: Tourism and Hospitality

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.

Malti had to wait long to see her son, Abhik. She had worked hard to (1)______ her husband’s last wish that Abhik should (2)______ his higher education at Cambridge. Abhik (3)______ to be meritorious and hardworking and had secured a seat. Making ends meet was (4)______ and a trip back home in the vacation, (5)______ for the mother and son. 
 

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5.

Option 1: uncouth

Option 2: unbearable

Option 3: unaffordable

Option 4: uncomfortable

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.

The number of Indian students going abroad for higher studies has increased by 68.79 per cent in the past year, according to data provided by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Subhas Sarkar. As per the data provided by him in the Lok Sabha, the number of Indians enrolled in foreign varsities increased from 4.44 lakh in 2021 to 7.5 lakh in 2022. He clarified that while the Bureau of Immigration and Ministry of Home Affairs maintain departure and arrival data of Indians, there is no index for capturing the category of Indians going abroad for higher education.

"Purpose of Indians going abroad for higher education is captured manually based either on their verbal disclosure or the type of visa of the destination country produced by them at the time of immigration clearance," Sarkar said.

According to the data provided by the ministry, the number of Indian nationals increased from 4.54 lakh in 2017 to 5.17 lakh in 2018. There was a significant increase in 2019 as well, with 5.86 lakh students flying out of the country. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Indian nationals in foreign varsities saw a drastic dip as only 2.59 lakh students were registered. While the number continued to remain low, it saw a slight increase in 2021 with 4.44 lakh registrations. However, the number has significantly jumped to 7.5 lakh in 2022. The increase in the number of Indian nationals abroad corresponds with the latest immigration reports from some of the popular study-abroad destinations such as the US, UK, and Australia. For the UK, the Immigration Statistics Report states that 127,731 visas were granted to Indian students in September 2022, an increase of 93,470 (+273 per cent) against 34,261 in 2019. Similarly, in the US, the number of Indian students has more than doubled, and the Open Doors Report 2022 has predicted that the number of Indian students heading to America is likely to surpass those from China in 2022-23.

Question:

In 2019, how many Indian students went abroad?

Option 1: 5.17 lakh

Option 2: 4.54 lakh

Option 3: 5.86 lakh

Option 4: 4.44 lakh

Question : Which of the following factors contributes to human capital formation?

Option 1: Decreased investment in education and healthcare

Option 2: Low levels of literacy and numeracy in the population

Option 3: Lack of access to educational opportunities

Option 4: Government policies promoting education and healthcare

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential element in 'The Republic' (his most important work on philosophy and political theory, written around 360 B.C.). In it, he advocates some rather extreme methods: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, music, and art. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are not distributed genetically and thus can be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.

Aristotle considered human nature, habit, and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading, writing, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.

Question:
What tool does Aristotle advocate to teachers to develop good habits in students?

Option 1: Writing

Option 2: Reading

Option 3: Questioning

Option 4: Repetition

Question : Which of the following organizations functions as an apex organization to provide quality school education?

Option 1: Universities Grants Commission

Option 2: All India Council of Technical Education

Option 3: National Council of Educational Research and Training

Option 4: Ministry of Education at the central level

Question : Read the passage and answer the following questions.
All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. it is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the highest altitudes of human thoughts' have always thought that the strongest argument in favor of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's own name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted of though the human mind and given us our highest proofs of future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence Comes our sublime discontent's habitual mediation on the vast problems that underline human life and are knit into human destinies-thoughts of immortality, of the littleness to the mere man, of the greatness of man' soul, of the splendors of the universe that are invisible to the ordinary traffickers in the street, as the vastness of St. Peter's is to the spider that weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things do not fir men to understand the arrange humanity is easy to understand, therefore, Why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or he the silent companionship of the immortals and if they care to present their verse to the world that these views take a somber and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered.

Question:
According to the passage,  we can say that great thinkers are content to live______
 

Option 1: In the middle of crisis of civilizations
 

Option 2: In their thoughts, with an exceptional calm. 

Option 3:
At secluded mountains away from society.

Option 4: With the complexities and madness of life. 

Question : What was a major domestic policy focus of Indira Gandhi's government leading up to the 1971 elections?

Option 1: Industrialization

Option 2: Land reforms

Option 3: Education reform

Option 4: Poverty alleviation

Question : English as the official language of India for higher education was incorporated in the resolution formulation by ______.

Option 1: Lord Hastings

Option 2: Lord Wellesley

Option 3: Lord Macaulay

Option 4: Lord Dalhousie

Question : The "knowledge spillover" effect refers to:

Option 1: The transfer of knowledge from one firm to another in the same industry

Option 2: The dissemination of knowledge to the general public

Option 3: The impact of education on individual earnings

Option 4: The interaction between human capital and physical capital