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UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
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2017 · Unclassified
UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
What climate change will undeniably do is cause or amplify events that hasten the reduction of resources. Competition over these diminishing resources would ensue in the form of political or even violent conflict. Resource-based conflicts have rarely been overt and are thus difficult to isolate. Instead, they take on veneers that appear more politically palatable. Conflicts over resources like water are often cloaked in the guise of identity or ideology.
What does the above passage imply?
What climate change will undeniably do is cause or amplify events that hasten the reduction of resources. Competition over these diminishing resources would ensue in the form of political or even violent conflict. Resource-based conflicts have rarely been overt and are thus difficult to isolate. Instead, they take on veneers that appear more politically palatable. Conflicts over resources like water are often cloaked in the guise of identity or ideology.
What does the above passage imply?
2017 · Unclassified
UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
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The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend—who fluctuates from opinion to opinion and veers from plan to plan—can never accomplish anything. He will at best be stationary and probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly and then executes his purpose with inflexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line.
The keynote that seems to be emerging from the passage is that
The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend—who fluctuates from opinion to opinion and veers from plan to plan—can never accomplish anything. He will at best be stationary and probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly and then executes his purpose with inflexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line.
The keynote that seems to be emerging from the passage is that
2017 · Unclassified
UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
During the summer in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice has been melting earlier and faster, and the winter freeze has been coming later. In the last three decades, the extent of summer ice has declined by about 30 per cent. The lengthening period of summer melt threatens to undermine the whole Arctic food web, atop which stand polar bears.
Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?
During the summer in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice has been melting earlier and faster, and the winter freeze has been coming later. In the last three decades, the extent of summer ice has declined by about 30 per cent. The lengthening period of summer melt threatens to undermine the whole Arctic food web, atop which stand polar bears.
Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?
2017 · Unclassified
UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Why do people prefer open defecation and not want toilets or, if they have them, only use them sometimes? Recent research has shown two critical elements: ideas of purity and pollution, and not wanting pits or septic tanks to fill because they have to be emptied. These are the issues that nobody wants to talk about, but if we want to eradicate the practice of open defecation, they have to be confronted and dealt properly.
Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?
Why do people prefer open defecation and not want toilets or, if they have them, only use them sometimes? Recent research has shown two critical elements: ideas of purity and pollution, and not wanting pits or septic tanks to fill because they have to be emptied. These are the issues that nobody wants to talk about, but if we want to eradicate the practice of open defecation, they have to be confronted and dealt properly.
Which among the following is the most crucial message conveyed by the above passage?
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UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
In the last two decades, the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 50 per cent, whereas inclusive wealth has increased by a more 6 per cent. In recent decades, GDP-driven economic performance has only harmed inclusive wealth like human capital; and natural capital like forests, land and water. While the world’s human capital which stands at 57 per cent of total inclusive wealth grew by only 8 per cent, the natural capital which is 23 per cent of total inclusive wealth declined by 30 per cent worldwide in the last two decades.
Which of the following is the most crucial inference from the above passage?
In the last two decades, the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 50 per cent, whereas inclusive wealth has increased by a more 6 per cent. In recent decades, GDP-driven economic performance has only harmed inclusive wealth like human capital; and natural capital like forests, land and water. While the world’s human capital which stands at 57 per cent of total inclusive wealth grew by only 8 per cent, the natural capital which is 23 per cent of total inclusive wealth declined by 30 per cent worldwide in the last two decades.
Which of the following is the most crucial inference from the above passage?
2017 · Unclassified
UPSC PRELIMS CSAT PAPER-2 2017
Direction: Read the passage and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
By 2020, when the global economy is expected to run short of 56 million young people, India, with its youth surplus of 47 million, could fill the gap. It is in this context that labour reforms are often cited as the way to unlock double-digit growth in India. In 2014, India’s labour force was estimated to be about 40 per cent of the population, but 93 per cent of this force wan in the unorganized sector. Over the last decade, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of employment has slowed to 05 per cent, with about 14 million jobs created during last year when the labour force increased by about 15 million.
Which of the following is the most rational Inference from the above passage?
By 2020, when the global economy is expected to run short of 56 million young people, India, with its youth surplus of 47 million, could fill the gap. It is in this context that labour reforms are often cited as the way to unlock double-digit growth in India. In 2014, India’s labour force was estimated to be about 40 per cent of the population, but 93 per cent of this force wan in the unorganized sector. Over the last decade, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of employment has slowed to 05 per cent, with about 14 million jobs created during last year when the labour force increased by about 15 million.
Which of the following is the most rational Inference from the above passage?