Practice Statement and course of action - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)  

• Statement:
• Over 27000 bonded labourers identified and freed are still awaiting rehabilitation.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. More cases of bonded labourers should be identified.
• II. Till the proper rehabilitation facilities are available, the bonded labourers should not be freed.
• III. The impediments in the way of speedy and proper rehabilitation of bonded labourers should be removed.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only III follows

(d) Both II and III follow

Q-2)  

• Statement:
• If the faculty members also join the strike, there is going to be a serious problem.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The faculty members should be persuaded not to go on strike.
• II. Those faculty members who join the strike should be suspended.
• III. The management should not worry about such small things.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Both II and III follow

(d) None follows

Q-3)  

• Statement:
• Many school buses have fitted CNG kit without observing the safety guidelines properly.
• This results in some instances of these buses catching fire due to short circuit and endangering the lives of the school children.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The regional transport authority should immediately carry out checks of all the school buses fitted with CNG kit.
• II. The management of all the schools should stop hiring buses fitted with CNG kit.
• III. The Government should issue a notification banning school buses for the use of CNG kit.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only III follows

(d) Both I and III follow

(e) None of the above

Q-4)  

• Statement:
• In the city, over 75% of the people are living in slums and substandard houses, which is a reflection on the housing and urban development policies of the Government.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. There should be a separate department looking after housing and urban development.
• II. The policies in regard to urban housing should be reviewed.
• III. The policies regarding rural housing should also be reviewed so that such problems could be avoided in rural areas.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Both II and III follow

(d) Either II or III follows

Q-5)  

• Statement:
• Lack of coordination between the university, its colleges and various authorities have resulted in students ousted from one college seeking migration to another.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the university.
• II. The admissions to all the colleges of the universities should be handled by the university directly.
• III. A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only III follows

(d) Both I and III follow

Q-6)  

• Statement:
• Heavy rains hit the state during October, just before the State Assembly elections, and caused heavy damage to standing crops in most parts of the state.
• Courses of Action:
• I. Elections should be postponed to give candidates the opportunity to campaign.
• II. The Government should announce a relief package for those who are affected.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) I either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow

Q-7)  

• Statement:
• Cases of road accidents are increasing constantly, particularly in urban areas. 

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• Courses of Action:
• I. Transport Authorities in the urban areas should impose stringent norms for the maintenance of vehicles.
• II. Traffic police should severely punish those found to be violating traffic rules.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) If either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow

Q-8)  

• Statement:
• Despite the good economic progress of the country, a significant number of undernourished children have been observed in the rural parts of the country.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. Government should increase Wealth Tax/ Income Tax and use that money for the upliftment of the deprived class.
• II. The government should introduce schemes like free meals in primary schools and make primary education compulsory.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) If either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow

Q-9)  

• Statement:
• There has been a spurt of robbery and housebreaking incidents in one locality during the past fortnight.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The local police station personnel should start patrolling the locality at regular intervals.
• II. The residents in the locality should be asked by the police authority not to leave their houses during the night.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) If either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow

Q-10)  

• Statement:
• The local college principal has ordered that all the students must strictly adhere to the dress code stipulated by college authority in the admission brochure.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. Those students who are found to violate the dress code should be terminated from the college.
• II. Those students who are found to violate the dress code for the first time should be reprimanded and be warned against further violations.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) If either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow

Q-11)  

• Statement:
• The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the Government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality.
• II. The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits so that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-12)  

• Statement:
• A large number of engineering graduates in the country are not in a position to have gainful employment at present and the number of such engineers is likely to grow in the future.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The Government Should launch attractive employment generation schemes and encourage these graduates to opt for such schemes to use their expertise and knowledge effectively.
• II. This happened due to the proliferation of engineering colleges in the country and thereby lowered the quality of the engineering graduates. Those colleges which are not equipped to impart quality education should be closed down.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-13)  

• Statement:
• A large number of students have been caught using unfair means during the final - year degree examination.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. All these students should be debarred permanently from appearing for any examination conducted by the authority.
• II. The guardians of these students should be called by the authority to inform them that any such behaviour in future will not be tolerated.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-14)  

• Statement:
• Four districts in State A have been experiencing severe drought for the last three years resulting into exodus of people from these districts.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The government should immediately start food for work programme in the district to put a halt to the exodus.
• II. The government should make since efforts to provide drinking/potable water to these districts.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-15)  

• Statement:
• Majority of the students in many schools do not pass in the final examination.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. These schools should be closed down as these have become unproductive.
• II. The teachers of these schools should immediately be retrenched.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-16)  

• Statement:
• People residing in some tribal areas are far from education.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The government should render all help to the NGOs to schools Open there.
• II. A mass awareness programme must be initiated in these areas.
• III. Social workers should be entrusted with the job of educating them.

(a) Only I and II follow

(b) Only II and III follow

(c) Only I and III follow

(d) Only either I or III, and II follow

(e) All follow

Q-17)  

• Statement:
• School dropout rate is very high in rural areas as children support their parents in income-earning activities.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. Public awareness programme on primary education should be expanded immediately to educate parents.
• II. Compensation should be given to rural families.

(a) If only I follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) If either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

Q-18)  

• Statement:
• It is necessary to adopt suitable measures to prevent the repetition of bad debts by learning from the past experiences of mounting non - performing assets of banks.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. Before granting loans to customers their eligibility for loans should be evaluated strictly.
• II. To ensure the payment of installments of loans, the work, for which the loan was granted, should be supervised minutely on regular basis.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-19)  

• Statement:
• The alert villagers caught a group of dreaded dacoits armed with murderous weapons.

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• Courses of Action:
• I. The villagers should be provided with sophisticated weapons.
• II. The villagers should be rewarded for their courage and unity.

(a) If only I follows;

(b) If only II follows;

(c) If either I or II follows;

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow.

Q-20)  

• Statement:
• An increasing number of graduates produced by Indian universities are unemployable.
• Courses of Action:
• I. Colleges and institutes of higher learning should be given greater autonomy to decide the course content.
• II. World-class foreign universities should be encouraged to set up campuses in India.

(a) If only I followsIf only II follows

(b) If only II follows

(c) I either I or II follows

(d) If neither I nor II follows

(e) If both I and II follow