Multiple choice

The Government usually tries to provide financial support to students seeking postgraduate degrees in areas of study seemed important to the National economy. However, one area of study has been under-funded for too long. On average, each Battle Tank purchased by the Government is bought at the expense of Postgraduate Studies in engineering programs for 250 students. Moreover, in the last three decades the number of postgraduate degrees in engineering awarded each year, has dwindled from 20,000 to only 10,000. Nevertheless, national grants to post graduate students of engineering have remained at ridiculously low levels. In fact, some colleges and universities grant more money to engineering students than does the national government.

Which of the following best expresses the main point of the argument?

  1. Battle Tanks are too expensive and alternative defensive systems should be found whenever possible.

  2. National grants to post graduate students of engineering should be increased.

  3. The national government, not colleges and universities, bear the responsibility for providing grants to post graduate students.

  4. The national government's financial support of engineering students has not been equitably distributed among different states.

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

When you are asked to find the main point, make sure that the entire argument supports the choice you select. The whole argument is a case for the sad lack of funding for postgraduate engineering students.

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