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Directions (Q. 1-10) In the following
passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage
and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank
appropriately. Find out the appropriate
word in each case.
India with its 600 universities and 35,000 colleges is the third (1)
education system in the world. But 68 percent of these universities and 73 per
cent of college are (2) to be medium or low quality by Indian standard itself.
With a severe shortage of quality higher education institutions, India faces
the challenge of educating nearly 30 per cent of its 1 .1 billion people.
Certainly, India requires many more institutions of higher (3) since nearly 100
million students are going to the higher education market in the next 10 years.
In such a scenario improving the standards of (4) universities and establishing
quality institutions should be our priority.
Steps should be (5) to reduce the disconnect between higher education
institutions and industry requirements. The possibilities of private sector
contributions in higher education should be fully exploited. The practice of
big business houses and philanthropists promoting quality universities in the
west could be (6) in India. But before initiating such private sector
participation in higher education the government should ensure that there are
proper checks and controls on the activities of such entities. Also it is our
recent experience that the mushrooming of substandard schools and (7)
universities (8) resulted in the deterioration of educational standards in
India.
Upgrading the higher education sector
especially in terms of patents filed and cutting edge research output is
essential in improving India’s global ranking. Our sustainable economic
development depends on human resources. A quality higher education base is
essential (9) reap full benefits of our demographic dividend. In its mission to
redress inefficiencies in higher education, the strategies of the 12th plan
focus on technical education, distance learning, quality research,
infrastructure, faculty and curriculum content. Wholehearted, coordinated
efforts of the government departments and the private sector are needed to (10)
the plan’s educational goals.
1.
(a) largest
(b) large
(c) larger
(d) bigger
(e) affluent
2.
(a) founded
(b) found
(c) finding
(d) being found
(e) been founded
3.
(a) learn
(b) learning
(c) played
(d) paid
(e) paying
4.
(a) existing
(b) existed
(c) perished
(d) excellent
(e) exciting
5.
(a) take
(b) took
(c) taken
(d) stopped
(e) forwarded
6.
(a) repeated
(b) replicated
(c) copying
(d) repeating
(e) replicating
7.
(a) deemed
(b) deeming
(c) dreaming
(d) dreamt
(e) deemful
8.
(a) have
(b) has
(c) has been
(d) have been
(e) would be
9.
(a) for
(b) in
(c) with
(d) to
(e) by
10.
(a) realise
(b) realising
(c) understand
(d) achieving
(e) realised
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