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UPSC Prelims 2025 CSAT, question 32

Topic: Reading comprehension

Directions · Q31 to Q34

Directions for the following 4 (four) items :
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

Passage · Q31 to Q32

In our country, regrettably, teaching and learning for the examination have been our forte but the new demands of society and the future of work require critical and independent thinking, learning through doing, asking questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives on the same issue, using evidence for building arguments, and reflecting and articulation. Higher education should not “either be a mere servant of the government policy or a passive respondent to public mood.” Higher learning is all about how to think rather than what to think. Teaching has to be re-invented.

Q32

With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made :

I. Higher education is a constantly evolving subject that needs to align towards new developments in all spheres of society.

II. In our country, sufficient funds are not allocated for promoting higher education.

Which of the above assumptions is/are valid ?

  1. (a) I onlyCorrect answer
  2. (b) II only
  3. (c) Both I and II
  4. (d) Neither I nor II

Solution.

Answer: (a) I only

  1. Statement I is correct: the author states that the new demands of society and the future of work require higher education to re-invent teaching around critical thinking and multi-disciplinary inquiry.
  2. Statement II is incorrect: financial allocation or lack of funds for universities is not mentioned anywhere in the passage.