Dear Aspirants,
Since IBPS PO – III is almost at hand, we wish to ensure that no
aspect of your study goes incomplete for this crucial examination. In this
article , we try to help you solve “Complete the Paragraph” type of questions.
This type of questions appeared in September 2011, however, there is no
guarantee that these will not appear again. This formed part of the “English
Section” of the Examination and left many aspirants puzzled.
Since this is a
relatively uncharted area and not much literature is available on the same, we have picked out the questions from the
previous paper of September 2011 and discussed the same. So go through the
below article carefully and try to understand the basic underlying concepts and
the “Trick” to solve these questions
Directions—: In
each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the
lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best
out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent
( coherent means logically complete and sound).
1. Women's rights around the world are an important indicator to
understand global well-being. A major global women's rights treaty was ratified
by the majority of the world's nations a few decades ago, ............................................................
.These range from the cultural,
political to the economic. For example, women often work more than men, yet are paid less; gender discrimination affects girls and
women throughout their lifetime; and women and girls are often the ones that
suffer the most poverty. Many may think that women's rights are only an issue
in countries where religion is law. Or even worse, some may think this is no
longer an issue at all. But reading the report about the United Nation's
Women's Treaty and how an increasing number of countries are lodging
reservations will show otherwise. Gender equality furthers the cause of child
survival and development for all of society, so the importance of women's
rights and gender equality should not be underestimated.
(A) This treaty
tackled and solved a number of issues related to women.
(B) Why is it
then, that moment still face a number of problems on the domestic front?
(C) Thus, the
woman today is ten times more empowered as compared to a woman say about a
decade age.
(D) Women's
activists across nations have implored the respective governments to take this
seriously.
(E) Yet, despite
many successes in empowering women, numerous issues still exist in all areas of
life.
Overview
of the question.
In this question you have been given a short paragraph, with one line deleted in
between, like a Cloze test in
which one word has been deleted in between. You have to choose from the
appropriate answer choices which line
fits best in to the paragraph in the blank space.
How
to Solve ?
1.
DON’T WASTE PRECIOUS TIME READING THE WHOLE
PARAGRAPH.
2. READ THE LINES IMMEDIATELY BEFORE AND
AFTER THE BLANK ONLY.
(A major global women's
rights treaty was ratified by the
majority of the world's nations a few decades ago,
............................................................ . These range from the cultural,
political to the economic.)
3. FOCUS ON THE FIRST FEW WORDS AFTER THE BLANK:
The first words after the blank are (1) “these ” (2) range (3) from (4) the (5)
cultural. Try to identify crucial words
which give hints on how to solve these questions. Such words are called
“KEYWORDS”. You have to identify such Keywords in order to solve the
questions.
The first question which should come to
your mind is that what is the word “these”
referring to.
- “These” is a pronoun.
- “These” is plural.
- “These” has to refer to something in the previous line which is plural in nature.
- This previous line is the blank line which you have to insert
4. NOW GO STRAIGHT TO THE ANSWER CHOICES
AND ELIMINATE WRONG CHOICES
(A) This treaty tackled and solved a number of issues
related to women . (Shortlisted
for the correct answer As “these” can
refer to “issues”).
(B) Why is it then, that women still face a number of
problems on the domestic front? (Shortlisted for the correct answer as “these”
can refer to “problems”)
(C) Thus, the woman today is ten times more empowered as
compared to a woman say about a decade age. ( Eliminated as there
is no plural word in this line to which “these” can refer to )
(D) Women's activists across nations have implored the
respective governments to take this seriously. (Eliminated as there is no plural word in this line
to which “these” can refer to)
(E) Yet, despite many successes in empowering women,
numerous issues still exist in all areas of life (Shortlisted for the correct
answer As “these” can refer to
“issues”).
5. WORK WITH SHORTLISTED OPTIONS
Now we have 3 shortlisted options , lets
try to fit in these three options into the paragraph
- (A) This treaty tackled and solved a number
of issues related to women. These range from the cultural,
political to the economic.(This answer choice
is Eliminated , as a treaty - which
means an understanding- cannot by itself
tackle and solve any problem, a treaty is like an international
conference , where some common understanding and roadmaps are discussed
, hence a treaty cannot solve problems, it can
only provide guidelines on how to solve a particular issue. )
2. (B) Why is it then, that women still face a number of
problems on the domestic front? These range from the cultural,
political to the economic. (Eliminated as
this talks about problems on the “domestic”- i.e. household front, whereas
the subsequent line talks about some problems ranging from cultural,
political and economic. )
- (E) Yet, despite many successes in
empowering women, numerous issues still exist in all areas of life. These range from the cultural,
political to the economic ( This is the correct
answer, as “all areas of life”
refer to cultural, political and economic issues in the subsequent
sentence
Hence, clearly we can see
that option (E) is the right Answer, although it is tempting to mark option
(A), but you should be extra careful while solving these problems.
Here are some other questions from IBPS PO 2011,
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All The best !!
Team Bankersadda.
