ENERGY (Bank P.O. 1994) In terms of the total energy consumed by different sectors, the largest consumer is understandably the industrial sector, which accounts for nearly half the total energy used in the country today. This is followed by the transport sector which consumes about 25%, the household sector (about 14%) and the agricultural sector (about 9%). This… Read More »
Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- SMILING FACE (Bank P.O. 1995) Although a smiling face often disguises the mind and heart of villain, an indiscriminate generalization of this phenomenon will do injustice to the innocent children whose faces bloom like flowers. 1. Which of the following is most nearly the same in meaning as the… Read More »
TELEVISION With the coming of the television, the radio no longer holds the same attraction for people as it did once. Yet somehow I have not quite reconciled myself to the idea of sitting in front of the TV, viewing it. I prefer the radio set, the good old box by your bedside. And here, again, the older… Read More »
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (R.B.I. 1990) Recent advances in science and technology have made it possible for geneticists to find out abnormalities in the unborn fetus and take remedial action to rectify some defects which would otherwise prove to be fatal to the child. Though genetic engineering is still at its infancy, scientists can now predict with greater accuracy… Read More »
Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- LUCK (N.D.A. 1993) It is not luck but labour that makes men. Luck, says an American writer, is ever waiting for something to turn up; labour with keen eyes and strong will always turn up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of… Read More »
FUTURE (Bank P.O. 1994) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- What is the future which awaits our children? The underlying assumption of the question that Indian children have a common future is itself dubious. It can legitimately be asked whether a student who is well-fed, attending a boarding school in the salubrious climate of the… Read More »
Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- COBRA How long I remained in the room with the cobra I cannot say. My servant said later that it was only half an hour, and no sound has ever been more welcome to me than the sounds I heard as my servant laid the table for dinner. I… Read More »
TEACHING Teaching, more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The profession has a great and honourable tradition, extending from the dawn of Matos-. y until recent times, but… Read More »
PURPOSE (N.D.A. 1993) The avowed purpose of the exact sciences is to establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can be formally set out and empirically tested. Could that ideal be fully achieved, all truth and all error could henceforth be ascribed to an exact theory of the universe, while we who accept… Read More »
DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES (Section Officers, 1993) Democratic societies from the earliest times have expected their govern-mints to protect the weak against the strong. No ‘era of good feeling’ can justify discharging the police force or giving up the idea of public control over concentrated private wealth. On the other hand, it is obvious that a spirit of self-denial and… Read More »
EXPERIMENTAL SKILL S.N. Bose’s experimental skill was not confined to physics alone. His energy had been channelized in several directions. One direction in which his energy flowed more consistently than in any other was the popularization of science. In a newly independent country like India, determined to develop her industries as quickly as possible, there was every danger… Read More »
ACKNOWLEDGED (C.D.S. 1995) It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day. My daughter Kashmir knew how much I… Read More »
SUCCESS Read the Passage Carefully and answers the following Questions:- Ironically enough, the very ‘Success’ of Operation Flood which is to make the cities flush with milk, has proved its undoing. Farmers in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are now faced with a surplus of supplies for which there are no takers. Indeed, some experts in… Read More »
QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY It is a commonly held belief that quality and productivity are a function of technology or a set of new equipment. No doubt these are essential, but they alone are not sufficient for bringing about improvements in productivity or quality. It is the men and women behind the machines and the people who manage the… Read More »
RESOURCES (I.E.S. 1994) Some prophets of doom assert that we shall soon exhaust the Earth’s resources or pollute ourselves to death. Optimists assert that Earth’s systems are robust and that improved technologies will ease all the pressures on the planet. Others see the main concerns as political, with environmental issues carrying the seeds of inequality and war. Scientific… Read More »