MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz
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Directions (1 – 5): Read the following passage carefully and certain words in the passage are printed in bold letters to help you locate them easily while answering some of these questions.
A few weeks ago, a newspaper article quoted a well known scientist saying, “IT has destroyed Indian science”. One can speculate about the various ways in which the growth of the IT sector and other similar knowledge industries such as biotechnology has led to a decline in basic scientific research in India.
The most obvious reason is money; pay scales in IT and BT are much higher than one can aspire to in academia. The argument goes: why should a bright B. Tech. or M.Sc. student enroll in a Ph.D. programme when she can make a lot more money writing code ? Not only does a fresh IT employee make a lot more than a fresh M.Tech. student, her pay will rise much faster in IT than in academia. A professor’s pay at a government-run university, even after the Sixth Pay Commission, tops out at far less than a senior executive’s salary in a major industry.
Second, the social status of IT and BT jobs equal or even exceed the social status of corresponding academic positions, since they are seen as knowledge industries, which plays to best and worst instincts of the societal order. As quintessential white collar professions, neither do they compel a successful entrepreneur to resort to violence and corruption, nor do they demand any physical labour. Unlike real estate or road construction, it is felt that IT workers can become rich while staying honest and sweat-free.
Assuming that the labour pool for academia and IT is roughly the same, the difference in our collective preferences biases the labour market towards IT and away from academia. Further, when the imbalance between IT and academia continues for years and even decades, a destructive loop, from academia’s point of view, is created. When our best and brightest take IT jobs over academic ones for a decade or more, faculty positions in our universities and research centers are no longer filled by the best candidates.
As faculty quality goes down, so does the capacity to train top-class graduate students who, after all, are teachers in training. In response to decreasing faculty quality, even those students who would otherwise choose an academic profession, decide to join industry or go abroad for their studies. These foreign trained graduates prefer to come back to corporate India—if at all they do come back—and the downward cycle replicates itself in each generation. In other words, academia is trapped within a perfect storm created by a combination of social and economic factors.
In this socio-economic calculus, the members of our societal classes should prefer an IT job to an academic one. Or, to put it another way, the knowledge economy, i.e., the creation of knowledge for profit, trumps the knowledge society, i.e., the creation of knowledge for its own sake or the sake of the greater good. As is said, “knowledge is power, but money is even more power.” Perhaps the scientist was alluding to this victory of capitalism over the pursuit of pure knowledge when he accused IT of having a negative influence on Indian science.
Surely, knowledge has become a commodity like any other and as a result, knowledge workers are like any other labourers, who will sell their wares to the highest bidder. One solution is to accept and even encourage the commoditization of knowledge; if so, Indian universities and research centres should copy their western counterparts by becoming more and more like corporations. These centres of learning should convert themselves into engines of growth. In this logic, if we increase academic salaries and research grants to match IT paycheques we will attract good people into academia, where, in any case, it is rumoured that a certain elusive feeling called ‘the quality of life’ is better.
- According to the passage, what did the scientist actually mean when he said, “IT has destroyed Indian Science ?”
(a) The centres meant for Scientific research are being utilized by IT industries
(b) The IT industry does not employ people pursuing higher studies
(c) As information is readily available on the internet because of IT, there is no need to seek further information
(d) IT has distorted the truth as stated by Indian science
(e) The desire for money has overshadowed the search for knowledge
- Which of the following is possibly the most appropriate title for the passage ?
(a) Is the Future of IT Bright ?
(b) The IT Industry and the World Economy
(c) Research and Academics – Losing the Battle Against IT
(d) Scientific Research and the Need for Well – Trained Faculty
(e) Information Technology and its Advantages
- Why does the author say that knowledge has become a commodity?
(a) As it is no longer desirable in any professional field
(b) As there are too many educational institutes in the country which do not provide quality education
(c) As knowledge is now available easily as compared to the past
(d) As knowledgeable people sell their services for the highest price possible
(e) Like commodities knowledge too becomes stale after a certain period
- What, according to the author, is a destructive loop?
(a) Many people quit their existing jobs to work in the IT industry which in turn leads to the downfall of the other industries
(b) The fact that the best minds do not want to become teachers and this in turn leads to good students seeking knowledge elsewhere
(c) The fact that people working in the IT industry do not pursue higher studies which in turn leads to the deterioration in quality of employees
(d) The unending use of resources by the IT industry leading to a dearth of resources in the country
(e) Less grants are being provided by the Government to academic institutes which in turn leads to poor quality students joining the same
- Which of the following mentioned below is/are the author’s suggestion/s to promote interest in Indian academia?
(1) Research centres should adopt the corporate culture as is done in the West
(2) Lessening the number of research grants given
(3) Making academic salaries equivalent to those paid in IT industries.
(a) Only (3)
(b) Only (1)
(c) Only (2) and (3)
(d) Only (1) and (3)
(e) None of these
Directions (6 – 10): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and there is no correction required mark (e) i.e. ‘No correction required’ as the answer.
- Have you encouraged him in his endeavor he would have succeeded.
(a) Has you encouraged
(b) Had you encouraged
(c) If you encourage
(d) If you have encouraged
(e) No correction required
- No sooner we entered than he got up and left the room.
(a) No soon as we entered
(b) No sooner we enter
(c) No sooner had we enter
(d) No sooner did we enter
(e) No correction required
- The receptionist asked me who do I want to meet in the office.
(a) whom I wanted
(b) whom do I wanted
(c) to whom I want
(d) who do I wanted
(e) No correction required
- I am trying to convince him for the last two days to come and live with me till his father’s anger cools down.
(a) I had tried
(b) I tried
(c) I have tried
(d) I have being trying
(e) No correction required
- Poaching and illegal wildlife trade is on the rise in India.
(a) the rise in
(b) to the rise in
(c) at the rise in
(d) in the rise on
(e) No correction required
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