Statement:

A large private bank has decided to retrench one-third of its employees in view of the huge losses incurred by it during the past three quarters.

Courses of action:

(A) The Govt. should issue a notification to general public to immediately stop all transactions with the bank.

(B) The Govt. should direct the bank to refrain from retrenching its employees.

(C) The Govt. should ask the central bank of the country to initiate an enquiry into the bank’s activities and submit its report.

Statement: Many political activists have decided to stage demonstrations and block traffic movement in the city during peak hours to protest against the steep rise in prices of essential commodities.

Courses of action:

(A) The Govt. should immediatelyban all forms of agitations in the country.

(B) The police authority of the city should deploy additional forces all over the city to help traffic movement in the city.

(C) The state administration should carry out preventive arrests of the known criminals staying in the city

Statement: The school dropout rate in many districts in the state has increased sharply during the last few years as the parents of these children make them work in the fields owned by others to earn enough for them to get at least one meal a day.

Courses of action:
(A) The Govt should put up a mechanism to provide foodgrains to the poor people in these districts through public distribution system to encourage the parents to send their wards to school.
(B) The Govt should close down some of these schools in the district and deploy the teachers of these schools to nearby schools and also ask remaining students to join these schools.
(C) Govt should issue arrest warrants for all the parents who force their children to work in fields instead of
attending classes.

Statement: One aspirant was killed due to stampede while participating in a recruitment drive of police constables.

Courses of action:
(A) The officials in charge of the recruitment process should immediately be suspended.
(B) A team of officials should be asked to find out the circumstances which led to the death of the aspirant and submit its report within a week.
(C) The Govt should ask the home department to stagger the number of aspirants over more number of days to avoid such incidents in future.

Effect: Majority of the employees of the ailing organisation opted for voluntary retirement scheme and left the organisation with all their retirement benefits within a fortnight of launching the scheme.Which of the following can be a 'protable cause' of the above effect ?

 Statement: Most of the companies in IT and ITES sectors in India have started hiring from engineering college campuses this year and are likely to recruit much more than yearly recruitment of the earlier years.
Which of the following 'substantiates' the facts stated in the above statement?

Cause: The Govt has recently increased its taxes on petrol and diesel by about 10 per cent.

Which of the following can be a possible effect of the above cause?

Statement: The Govt has decided to instruct the banks to open new branches in such a way that there is one branch of any of the banks in every village of population 1000 and above or a cluster of villages with population less than 1000 to provide banking
services to all the citizens. Which of the following 'will weaken' the step taken by the Govt?

Which of the following is a 'conclusion' which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph?

Which of the following is an 'inference' which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph?

Which of the following is an 'assumption' which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph?

Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from the facts stated in the above paragraph?

Which of the following is an assumption which is implicit in the facts stated in the above paragraph?

Which of the following is an inference which can be made from the facts stated in the above paragraph?

What is the author’s main objective in writing the passage