SBIClerk06Jan2008 Related Question Answers
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the question.India is rushing headlong towards economic success and modernisation counting on high-tech industries such as information technology and biotechnology to propel the nation to prosperity India’s recent announcement that it would no longer produce unlicensed inexpensive generic pharmaceuticals bowed to the realities of the world Trade Organisation while at the same time challenging the domestic drug industry to compete with the multinational firms. Unfortunately its weak higher education sector constitutes the Achilles’ heel of this strategy. Its systematic disinvestment in higher education in recent years has yielded neither world-class research nor very many highly trained scholars scientists or managers to sustain high-tech development.India’s main competitors-especially China but also Singapore Taiwan and South Korea are investing in large and differentiated higher education systems. They are providing access to a large number of students at the bottom of the academic system while at the same time building some research-based universities that are able to compete with the world’s best institutions. The recent London Times Higher Education Supplement ranking of the world’s top 200 universities included three in China three in Hong Kong three in South Korea One in Taiwan and one in India. These countries are positioning themselves for leadership in the knowledge-based economies of the coming era.
There was a time when countries could achieve economic success with cheap labour and low-tech manufacturing, Low wages still help but contemporary large scale development requires a sophisticated and at least partly knowledge-based economy India has chosen that path but will find a major stumbling block in its university system
India has significant advantages in the 21st century knowledge race.It has a large higher education sector the third largest in the world in terms of numbers of students after China and the united states It uses english as a primary language of higher education and research It has long acdemic tradition Academic freedom is respected There are a small number of high-quality institutions departments, and centres that can from the basic sector in higher education The fact that the states rather than the central Government exerise major responsibility for higher education creates a rather “cumbersome” but the system allows for a variety of policies and approaches
Yet the weaknesses far outweigh the strengths India educates approximately 10 per cent of its young people in higher education compared to more than half in the major industrialised countries and 15 per cent in China Almost all of the world’s academic system “resemble” a pyramid, with a smaller high-quality tier at the top tier.None of its universities occupies a solid position at the top A few of the best unversities have some excellence The University Grants Commission’s recent major support to five universities to build on their recognised strength is a step towards recognising a differentiated academic system and “fostering” excellence These universities combined enro; well under one percent of the student population.Which of the following is TRUE in the context of the passage ?
4. A collection of programs that controls how your computer system runs and processes information is called
6. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group ?
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In each of the questions given below which Dirt of the five answer figures
on the right should come after the problem figures
on the left, if the sequence were continued ?figures
9. Magnetic tape is not practical for applications where data must be quickly recalled because tape is
11. Statements : Some towers are windows. All windows are houses. Some houses are temples. Conclusions : I : Some towers are temples. II : Some houses are towers. III : Some temples are windows.
12. Which of the following departments of the Government of India is helping banks in disbursement of rural credit by the banks?
13. Which of the following organisations/agencies has established a fund known as “Investor protection fund”?
16. India has different categories of commercial banks. Which of the following is NOT one such category?
17. Which of the following types of 11. Banks are allowed to operate foreign currency accounts? (A) Foreign Banks (B) Regional Rural Banks (C) Nationalised Banks
19. The money which Govternment of India spends on the development of infrastructure in country comes from which of the following sources? (Pick up the correct statement) (A) Loan form World Bank/ADB etc. (B) Taxes collected from the people. (C) Loan from the RBI.
20. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently imposed a restriction on money flow in equity through ‘P-Notes’. What is the full from of ‘P-Notes’?
21. Who amongst the following was the Captain of the Indian Cricket Team who won the Twenty-20 World Cup 2007?
24. One of the former Prime Ministers of which of the following countries was detained in house arrest for a short period after his/her return form a long exile?
25. Who amongst the following leaders from USA visited Israel and Palestinian West Bank so that a solution to the Israel and Palestinian problem can be worked out?
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