In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the three given suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.
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Statement: There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season.
Courses of Action:
The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase.
In future the police should take adequate precaution to avoid recurrence of such situation during festival.
The known criminals should be arrested before any such season.
The police ought to find out the lackenings in existing security arrangements and make up for these inadequacies to strengthen security and thus prevent criminal activities in the forthcoming festival. So, both I and II follow. Arresting the known criminals does not ensure safety, for a novice can also indulge in crime. So, III does not follow.
Statement: A large number of students who have passed their XII Std. terminal examination in the country could not get admission to colleges as the number of seats available are grossly inadequate.
Courses of Action:
The evaluation system of XII Std. terminal examination should be made more tough so that fewer students pass the examination.
The Government should encourage the private sector to open new colleges by providing them land at cheaper rate.
The rich people should be asked to send their wards to foreign countries for higher studies enabling the needy students to get admission in colleges within the country.
Clearly, reducing the number of aspirants for admission to colleges or sending the students of well-to-do families to foreign countries for higher studies, is no proper solution. So, both I and HI do not follow. The right solution is to increase the number of colleges so as to accommodate the increasing number of admission-seekers. So, only II follows.
Statement: It has been reported by one of the TV channels that the answer papers of Board examination of one State are evaluated by students studying in the same standard with the help of model answers as instructed by the examiners.
Courses of Action:
All such examiners should be immediately suspended from their official positions.
All such papers evaluated by the students should be immediately confiscated and got evaluated by qualified teachers.
The Board should explore possibilities even though they are remote, of getting the answer papers of this examination evaluated by computerised machines.
Students who work hard all the year round to perform well at the Board examination deserve to be evaluated correctly by experts, and not mechanically or by inexperienced people. Besides, examiners who shirk their duty of evaluating answer papers, ought to be punished. So, both I and II follow, while III does not.
Statement: The condition of all the major roads in the city has deteriorated due to incessant rain during the last two months.
Courses of Action:
The city civic authority should deploy additional traffic staff to regulate the vehicular movement.
The city civic authority should immediately make arrangements for repairs of the damaged roads.
Motorists should be alerted at various places by putting up sign boards about the bad patches of the roads to enable them to plan their journey accordingly.
Clearly, all the given courses of action aim at either getting the damaged roads repaired or regulating movement of traffic on, bad roads and making journey easy for all vehicle owners. So, all the courses follow.
Statement: There have been quite a few incidents of highway robbery on the super expressway between/cities A and B during recent months.
Courses of Action:
The local administration should immediately set up police tickets along the expressway to prevent robbery.
The local administration should immediately close down the expressway till the robbers are apprehended.
More and more people should be given training on how to tackle with the robbers.
Clearly, incidents of robbery can be practically averted only by tightening security arrangements and increasing vigilance by police. So, I follows. Neither II nor III follows as none of them is practically viable.
