Verbal Ability

Directions: Read the following sentence carefully and complete the sentence by choosing the most appropriate alternative.

The Supreme Court has given ___________ to the safety of human participants and animals rather than the argument that these ceremonies have cultural and religious significance for the Tamil community.

S1. The Council of Europe Convention to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence will take effect this August.

A. In particular, the plight of victims who happen to be in abusive relationships in Eastern Europe have come in for some scrutiny by Human Rights Watch over the last three years.
B. The new treaty seeks to address the psychological effects of violence among adults in the family on children, protection for male victims where relevant and provision for a monitoring mechanism and prosecution of perpetrator.
C. Not surprisingly, there are striking parallels to the situation in Europe around the world, as is evident from a 2013 World Health Organization study.
D. Persistent instances of physical abuse encountered among large migrant populations of women, and the need to strengthen the legal framework forms part of the context to the Istanbul Convention.
S6 In fact, the same report characterises physical or sexual violence against women as a public health phenomenon of epidemic proportions, affecting more than one-third of all women globally.

Directions: In the following question the first and the last sentence are marked S1 and S6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named ABCD. These parts are not given in their correct order. Read the sentences carefully and find out which of the following orders is correct.

What are the views of the author on the career prospects for graduates in humanities?

Directions: Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

It has become oddly fashionable to look down on the humanities over the last few decades. Today’s students are being told that studying the classics of English literature, the history of the twentieth century, or the ethics of privacy are a fun but useless luxury. To best prioritize our scarce education resources, we ought instead to focus on technical subjects such as math and engineering. This short-term market logic doesn’t work across the thirty-or-so-year horizon of a full career. A generation ago, lawyers made more money than investment bankers. Today, we have too many law graduates (though there appears to be data to support it’s still worth the money) and the investment banks complain about a lack of talent. It is basically impossible to project that sort of thing into the far future. We are also told that a degree in the humanities is unlikely to make you successful. But quite a few people with humanities degrees have had successful careers and, in the process, created numerous jobs.
One might think that most people starting out or running tech companies in the heart Silicon Valley would be from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Not so, studies found that 47 percent of the 652 technology and engineering company founders surveyed held terminal degrees in the STEM fields, with 37 percent of those degrees being in either engineering or computer technology and 2 percent in mathematics. The rest graduated with a healthy combination of liberal arts, health-care and business degrees.

The term 'short term market logic' refers to

Directions: Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

It has become oddly fashionable to look down on the humanities over the last few decades. Today’s students are being told that studying the classics of English literature, the history of the twentieth century, or the ethics of privacy are a fun but useless luxury. To best prioritize our scarce education resources, we ought instead to focus on technical subjects such as math and engineering. This short-term market logic doesn’t work across the thirty-or-so-year horizon of a full career. A generation ago, lawyers made more money than investment bankers. Today, we have too many law graduates (though there appears to be data to support it’s still worth the money) and the investment banks complain about a lack of talent. It is basically impossible to project that sort of thing into the far future. We are also told that a degree in the humanities is unlikely to make you successful. But quite a few people with humanities degrees have had successful careers and, in the process, created numerous jobs.
One might think that most people starting out or running tech companies in the heart Silicon Valley would be from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Not so, studies found that 47 percent of the 652 technology and engineering company founders surveyed held terminal degrees in the STEM fields, with 37 percent of those degrees being in either engineering or computer technology and 2 percent in mathematics. The rest graduated with a healthy combination of liberal arts, health-care and business degrees.

S1 The Asia region continues to grapple with a particular and premeditated form of violence against women, that is, the sex-selective abortion of female foetuses.
P. However, gender violence has received focused attention only over the past two decades.
Q. It has distorted the gender ratios of the population in the 0-6 year age-group.
R. A worrisome aspect of this phenomenon is the extent to which it reinforces traditional stereotypes over generations.
S. The mitigation of different forms of inequalities between men and women has engaged the attention of the international community over a relatively longer period.
S6 Hence, the comprehension of its various dimensions and the codification of laws are as yet in the early stages of evolution.

Directions: In the following question the first and the last sentence are marked S1 and S6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named PQRS. These parts are not given in their correct order. Read the sentences carefully and find out which of the following orders is correct.

According to the passage what subjects have become popular in the past few decades?

Directions: Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

It has become oddly fashionable to look down on the humanities over the last few decades. Today’s students are being told that studying the classics of English literature, the history of the twentieth century, or the ethics of privacy are a fun but useless luxury. To best prioritize our scarce education resources, we ought instead to focus on technical subjects such as math and engineering. This short-term market logic doesn’t work across the thirty-or-so-year horizon of a full career. A generation ago, lawyers made more money than investment bankers. Today, we have too many law graduates (though there appears to be data to support it’s still worth the money) and the investment banks complain about a lack of talent. It is basically impossible to project that sort of thing into the far future. We are also told that a degree in the humanities is unlikely to make you successful. But quite a few people with humanities degrees have had successful careers and, in the process, created numerous jobs.
One might think that most people starting out or running tech companies in the heart Silicon Valley would be from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Not so, studies found that 47 percent of the 652 technology and engineering company founders surveyed held terminal degrees in the STEM fields, with 37 percent of those degrees being in either engineering or computer technology and 2 percent in mathematics. The rest graduated with a healthy combination of liberal arts, health-care and business degrees.