Direction for questions 6 to 9: In the following questions, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.Politicians, who tend to be well-meaningbut bossy types, find it hard to resist intrudingat the private lives of their fellow-citizens, especiallywhen some of those private lives are conducted in a way that trouble respectable society.They meddle for their peril, however.

Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.a.  The shocking denial of access to basic facilities at the village level institutionalizes inequality of opportunity and has prevented the poor from rising.b.  Urban facilities provide some social mobility.c.  But rural facilities are so typically pathetic as to become poverty traps.d.  For this, our politicians are squarely to blame for these heroes are the zeroes who ensured continuing inequality of opportunity, poverty and powerlessness.e.  Their solution is to compete in offering caste-based reservations, not providing the equality of opportunity that might make caste irrelevant.a and ca, b and ec and db and c

Direction for questions 6 to 9: In the following questions, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.The lobby of the hotel was a small white buildingset at the centre of two dozen beautiful bungalowsthat sprawled down a hill towards the clear blue sea.The Mellises had the Noel Bungalow, with its own swimming pooland a maid to prepare their breakfast, they ate in the open-air dining room.

Direction for questions 6 to 9: In the following questions, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.Ignorance is usually fatal which is why people have been suffering for so long.Whether it was a cave dwelling ancestor eating a berry without knowing the difference between an edible or a poisonous one, or a kid crossing a busy intersection without looking both ways, in the end it was ignorance that cost them dearly.When the mind is left undeveloped and unable to grasp the true nature of things, it builds a model of the world.That is, at best, shaky and at worst, completely not in synchronization with reality.Yet, such ignorance is curable and can be dispelled with healthy doses of trial and error, experience and teaching.

Directions for questions 6 and 7: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph, and mark the correct sequence of numbers in the box provided below each question. (1) The ease with which the operations were carried out is a reflection of the lax standards of monitoring prevailing in the system.(2) In a way it is reminiscent of a leading group exercising controlling interests in publicly listed companies through a clutch of investment companies having the same postal address.(3) The multiple operations of demat accounts to corner shares in an IPO by individuals acting in isolation or in concert is threatening to blow up to a full-fledged scam drawing people of several segments into its vortex.(4) They further buttress their point by saying that it is the antiquated laws of rationing disallowing multiple applications which requires to be re looked.(5) Critics argue that, if there is nothing illegal in holding controlling interest in an enterprise through a web of investment companies, should initiatives to improve the chances of getting more shares in the IPO by operating multiple accounts be termed illegal

Directions for questions 4 and 5: Each of the following questions have a paragraph from which a sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the para in the most appropriate way.Freedom and rights are so fundamental that they become dangerous words to use. _____ People defend controversial practices as tobacco manufacture and sale, hunting animals etc., on the grounds that we are free people who have the right to enjoy whatever pleasures we choose. Whatever the merits of these arguments, we should be careful of taking them at face value.Western democracy is arguably built upon the twin pillars of individual freedom and unassailable rights.If someone wants to legitimize what they are doing, even if it is harmful, they will almost certainly try to describe their actions in terms of freedom and rights.Every person is entitled to the right to personal freedom and privacy.The language of rights and freedom is used to disguise all kinds of injustices and wrongdoings.