Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (23 April 2015)

Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (23 April 2015)

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:: General Studies (Paper -1) ::

1. Between India and East Asia, the navigation-time and distance can be gre reduced by which of the following?

1. Deepening the Malacca straits between Malaysia and Indonesia.
2. Opening a new canal across the Kraisthmus between the Gulf of Siam Andaman Sea.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

2. Biodiversity forms the basis for human existence in the following ways

1. Soil formation
2. Prevention of soil erosion
3. Recycling of waste
4. Pollination of crops

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

(a) 1, 2 and 3 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

3. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener sold in the market. It consists of acidsand provides calories like otheraminoacids. Yet, itisused asa low sweetening agent in food items. What is the basis of this use?

(a) Aspartame is as sweet as table sugar, but unlike table sugar, it is readily oxidized in human body due to lack of requisite enzymes
(b) When aspartame is used in food processing, the sweet taste re but it becomes resistant to oxidation
(c) Aspartame is as sweet as sugar but after ingestion into the body, it converted into metabolites that-yield no calories
(d) Aspartame is several times sweeter than tables sugar, hence food item made with small quantities of aspartame yield fewer calories oxidation.

4. What was the purpose with which Sir William Wedderburn and W. S. Caine had set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893?

(a) To agitate for Indian political reforms in the House of Commons
(b) To campaign for the entry of Indians into the Imperia Judiciary
(c) To facilitate a discussion on India’s Independence in the British Parliament
(d) To agitate for the entry of eminent Indians into the British Parliament

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

Education, without a doubt, has an important functional, instrumental and utilitarian dimension. This is revealed when one asks questions such as ‘what is the purpose of education?’. The answers, too often, are ‘to acquire qualifications for employment/upward mobility’, ‘wider/higher (in terms of income) opportunities’, and ‘to meet the needs for trained human power in diverse fields for national development’. But in its deepest sense education is not instrumentalist. That is to say, it is not to be justified outside of itself because it leads to the acquisition of formal skills or of certain desired psychological — social attributes. It must be respected in itself. Education is thus not a commodity to be acquired or possessed and then used, but a process of inestimable importance to individuals and society, although it can and does have enormous use value. Education then, is a process of expansion and conversion, not in the sense of converting or turning students into doctors or engineers, but the widening and turning out of the mind — the creation, sustenance and development of self-critical awareness and independence of thought. It is an inner process of moral—intellectual development.

1. What do you understand by the ‘instrumentalist’ view of education?

(a) Education is functional and utilitarian in its purposes.
(b) Education is meant to fulfil human needs.
(c) The purpose of education is to train the human intellect.
(d) Education is meant to achieve moral development.

2. According to the passage, education must be respected in itself because

(a) it helps to acquire qualific-ations for employment.
(b) it helps in upward mobility and acquiring social status.
(c) it is an inner process of moral and intellectual development.
(d) All the (a), (b) and (c) given above are correct in this context.

3. Education is a process in which

(a) students are converted into trained professionals.
(b) opportunities for higher income are generated.
(c) individuals develop self-critical awareness and independence of thought.
(d) qualifications for upward mobility are acquired.

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