Central Police Force (Assistant Commandant) Exam, 2012 - General Studies, Essay and Comprehension

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C C A P F A O ) W M , 20 ,1 Z ,GENERAL STUDIES, ESSAY AND

COMPREHENSION(Time Allowed Three Hours Maximum Marks 200)

INSTRUCTIONSQuestion No. is printed both in Hindi and English.Answer to Question No. I should be written either only inEnglish or only in Hindi.Candidates must ensure that the m edium o f writing the Essaycomponent is the same as indicated in the Attendance Listand on the cover of the Answer Book in the space providedfor the purpose.Question Nos. 1 3 and 4 are printed in English only.Answers to Question Nos. 2, 3 and 4 must be written inEnglish only.Candidates should attempt all questionsThe number of marks carried by each question is indicatedagainst each.Precis must be attempted only on the special precis-sheetsprovided separately, which are to be then securely attachedto the answer-book.Imp ortant : W henever a Q uestion is being attempted, all itsparts/sub-parts m ust be attem pted contiguously. Th is m eansthat before m oving on to the next Q uestion to be attempted,candidates must finish attempting all parts/sub-parts of theprevious Q uestion attemp ted. This is to be strictly followed .Pages left blank in the answer-book a re to be clearly struckout in ink. Any answers that follow pages left blank maynot be given credit.szr17 3r1 t air 17-4 41.-cH 6yeat e a i ter4 pas

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1. Write an essay on any ONE of the four topics givenbelow in about 8 0 0 words : 0(A) Emergence of regional parties and its effect onthe federal structure of India.(B) Population stabilizationIndia's critical need.(C) Migration from neighbouring countries to Indiaand its socio-economic impact.(D) The role of technology in coping with challengesto internal security.

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2. Attempt a prcis of each of the following passages inyour own words, reducing it to about a third of itspresent length and assigning a short appropriate title.The prcis must be written only on the special precissheet(s) provided : x15(A) The financial expert's office was under a banyantree : his office furniture an old tin box. Fromthe first pages of Mr Narayan's novel The

Financial Expert we are back in the town ofMalgudi with which for nearly twenty years wehave been as familiar as with our own birthplace.We know, like the streets of childhood, MarketRoad, the snuff stalls, the vendors of toothpaste,

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Lawley Extension with its superior villas, the RegalHaircutting Saloon, the river, the railway. Weexpect at any moment to see the Bachelor ofArts waving a long farewell to a friend from theplatform, small Swami wrapped in his adventurousdreams coming down Market Road, Mr Sampathat the door of his dubious film studio. It is throughtheir friendly offices that we have been able tomeet these newand rather doubtfulcharacters :Margayya, the financial expert himself, whograduates from the banyan tree to publishing, andback to more elaborate and more crooked banking(but how innocent is all his crookedness);Dr. Pal, 'journalist, correspondent and author';and Margayya's son Balu whose progress fromcharming childhood to spoilt frustrated manhoodis perhaps the saddest episode Mr Narayan haswritten.

All Mr Narayan's comedies have had thisundertone of sadness. Their gentle irony andabsence of condemnation remind us how difficultcomedy is in the West todayfarce, savage,boisterous, satirical, is easy, but comedy needs astrong framework of social convention with whichthe author sympathizes but which he does notshare. Miss Compton-Burnett is forced to placeher stories in the Edwardian or Victorian past;Mr Henry Green substitutes elaborate conventionsof his own for our social vacancies, so that hischaracters move in the kind of dance we learntat kindergarten'one step forward, one step tothe right, twirl on the right toe'. But the life ofMalgudinever ruffled by politicsproceeds inexactly the same way as it has done for centuries,

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and the juxtaposition of the age-old conventionand the modern character provides much of thecomedy. The astrologer is still called in to examinethe horoscopes for a marriage, but now if youpay him enough he will fix them the way youwant : the financial expert sits under his banyantree opposite the new Central Co-operative LandMortgage Bank. To push away a tumbler of milkis to insult a goddess; the caste of a great-grandfather is still of great importance, Margayya,astute about mortgages, consumed by the moderndesire for wealth and motorcars, yet consults thepriest of the Goddess Lakshmi and finds himselfseeking a red lotus to pound up in the milk drawnfrom a smoke-coloured cow (the forty days ofprayer have results : he becomes the owner of apornographic manuscript called first Bed Life orthe Science of Marital Happiness but afterwards,through the caution of the printer, DomesticHarmony).

Margayyathe sad ambitious absurd financialexpertis perhaps the most engaging of allMr Narayan's characters. In his ambitions for hisboy, his huge dreams, his unintended villainiesand his small vanities, his domestic tenderness,he has the hidden poetry and the unrecognizedpathos we so often find in Chekov's characterswho on the last page vanish into life.

(B) In the last decades of the twentieth century, theend of the Cold War, the collapse of the SovietUnion, the transitions to democracy in scores ofcountries, plus the significant expansion ofinternational trade, investment, transportation, and

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communication, usually labeled globalization,profoundly changed America s externalenvironment and had at least three majorconsequences for American identity.First, the collapse of the Soviet Union andof communism left America not only with noenemy, but also for the first time in its historywithout any clear "other" against which to defineitself. For over two centuries the liberal, democraticprinciples of the American Creed had been a corecomponent of American identity. American andEuropean observers had often referred to thiscreedal component as the essence of "Americanexceptionalism." Now, however, exceptionalismwas becoming universalism, as democracy becamemore and more accepted around the world, atleast in theory, as the only legitimate form ofgovernment. No other secular ideology existedto challenge democracy as fascism and communismhad in the twentieth century.

Second, the extensive internationalinvolvements of American business, academic,professional, media, nonprofit, and political eliteslowered the salience of national identity for thoseelites, who now increasingly defined themselves,their interests, and their identities in terms oftransnational and global institutions, networks,and causes. As we have seen, some Americanelites tended to attribute greater salience tosubnational identities than did the American public.Many of these same elites also assigned greatersalience to transnational identities than did thepublic, which remained highly nationalistic.

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Third, the decline in the relevance of ideologyincreased the importance of culture as a sourceof identity. The collective counterpart to thegrowing number of individuals with dual identities,dual loyalties, and dual citizenships was thegrowing number and importance of diasporas.Diasporas are cultural communities cutting acrossthe boundaries of two or more states, one of whichis viewed as the homeland country of thatcommunity. Immigrant ethnic groups promotingtheir interests within American society have beena reality since the mid-nineteenth century.Immigrants now, however, can much more easilymaintain ties, interactions, and communicationswith people in their origin country and thus seethemselves as members of a diaspora. In addition,homeland governments now view their diasporasas key sources of financial and other support andas sources of influence on host countrygovernments. Hence they promote the expansion,mobilization, and institutionalization of theirdiasporas.

The absence of an other until 2001, the spreadof democracy, the denationalization of elites, andthe rise of diasporas all blur the distinction betweennational and transnational identities.

3. Study the following passages and answer the questionsthat follow each passage :(A) The power of the State is only limited internally

by the fear of rebellion and externally by the fearof defeat in war. Subject to these restrictions, itis absolute. In practice, it can seize men's propertythrough taxation, determine the law of marriageand inheritance, punish the expression of opinions

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which it dislikes, put men to death for wishingthe region they inhabit to belong to a differentState, and order all able-bodied males to risk theirlives in battle whenever it considers war desirable.On many matters disagreement with the purposesand opinions of the State is criminal. Probablythe freest States in the world, before the war,were America and England; yet in America noimmigrant may land until he has professed disbeliefin anarchism and polygamy, while in Englandmen were sent to prison in recent years forexpressing disagreement with the Christianreligion or agreement with the teaching of Christ.In time of war, all criticism of the external policyof the State is criminal. Certain objects havingappeared desirable to the majority, or to theeffective holders of power, those who do notconsider these objects desirable are exposed topains and penalties not unlike those suffered byheretics in the past. The extent of the tyrannythus exercised is concealed by its very success :few men consider it worth while to incur apersecution which is almost certain to be thoroughand effective.

Universal military service is perhaps theextreme example of the power of the State, andthe supreme illustration of the difference betweenits attitude to its own citizens and its attitude tothe citizens of other States. The State punishes,with impartial rigour, both those who kill theircompatriots and those who refuse to kill foreigners.On the whole, the latter is considered the gravercrime. The phenomenon of war is familiar, andmen fail to realize its strangeness; to those whostand inside the cycle of instincts which lead to

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war it all seems natural and reasonable. But tothose who stand outside the strangeness of it growswith familiarity. It is amazing that the vast majorityof men should tolerate a system which compelsthem to submit to all the horrors of the battlefieldat any moment when their Government commandsthem to do so. A French artist, indifferent topolitics, attentive only to his painting, suddenlyfinds himself called upon to shoot Germans, who,his friends assure him, are a disgrace to the humanrace. A German musician, equally unknowing, iscalled upon to shoot the perfidious Frenchman.Why cannot the two men declare a mutualneutrality ? Why not leave war to those who likeit and bring it on ? Yet if the two men declareda mutual neutrality they would be shot by theircompatriots. To avoid this fate they try to shooteach other. If the world loses the artist, not themusician, Germany rejoices; if the world losesthe musician, not the artist, France rejoices. Noone remembers the loss to civilization, which isequal whichever is killed.(i) What does the author mean when he saysthat the power of the State is absolute, subjectto certain restrictions ?(ii) What examples of America and England doesthe author cite to indicate the power of the

State ?(iii) Explain the term 'graver crime' used in thesecond paragraph.(iv) What are the citizens supposed to do when

their government asks them to participate inwar ?(v) Explain the term 'mutual neutrality' used in

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(B) It is several years now since we reached thereductio ad absurdum of our examination system.The leaka ge of question papers a nd the con sequentpostponement of examinations, are the leastdisturbing of the reports in this regard that thenew spapers publish. At Fatehgarh, som e t im e a go,the superintendent and ten invigilators at anexamination withdrew from their duties in protesta gain st 'ina dequa te security a rra ngem ents.' Earl ier ,a mixed crowd of students and outsiders hadinvaded the examination centre on the very firstday of the examination, and adopted a threateningattitude when their attempts to pass on preparedanswers to the candidates were thwarted. A dayor two later a crowd climbed the roof of theexamination hall and indulged in the mostunspeakable acts of wretchedness. Many candidateswere caught cheating. The news agency addedthat 'the administration appeared to be reluctantto handle the situation firmly as sons of someprominent citizens were said to be involved inthese malpractices.'Our examinations, instead of bringing outthe best in students, seem to bring out the worst.Everyone is agreed that the system should bereformed. But if one may indulge in a piece oflevity on so grim a theme, the situation is ratherlike what Oscar Wilde said about the weather,namely, that everyone complains about it and noone does anything about it.

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The pace of reform is so unhurried as to beimperceptible. Meanwhile, examinations on themass scale have at best become feats oforganization by the Registrar's office, and theira ca dem ic va lue as tests of prof ic iency ha s becom enegligible. The only skills that they bring out arethe ingenious ways which candidates employ forcheating. In the High School and Intermediateexaminations of Uttar Pradesh, about 4,000 casesof the use of 'unfair means' are detected everyyear. A minister of education, while deploringthis, pointed out, however, that considering thefou r hund red thousa nd that ta ke the exam ina tions,the proportion of such cases cannot be consideredlarge

Reforms have no chance of success if theyare based, as at present, on a wholly wrong viewof the malady. The two most commonlyrecommended reforms, namely 'internalassessment' and 'objective tests', although theyoften carry the blessings of the same experts,proceed from two opposite views in regard tothe validity of the old-fashioned type ofexaminations. Internal assessment is based on therecognition that if a teacher is good enough toteach, he is also good enough to examine hisstudents. Objective tests, on the other hand, are

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intended to eliminate the chancy and subjectiveelement in the older methods of academiceva lua tio n. If the o bjective tests a re really o bjective,it should make no difference whether their sourceis internal or external. In fact they eliminate thepersona l jud gem ent o f the teacher, a nd their logica levolution is towards the machine-scored tests ofthe Educational Testing Service at Princeton.

These tests, like other examinations, areuseful if we are clear in our minds as to what weare testing. An academic examination shouldordinarily be expected to test the student'sjudgment, his powers of expression and hismemoryin that order. The trouble with ourpresent examinations is that with the passage oftim e, this ord er ha s been reversed, a n d the stud en t 'sjudgment is now left out of account altogether.We have now reached a stage where the annualex terna l exa m inat ion , on w hich so m u ch depends,seems to the student a big gamble.

The evils of a final external examination atthe end of a course have been exaggerated. Sincethe American way of internal assessment and thepiling up of credits is what finds favour withreform ers tod a y, it w ou ld perhaps be w ise to ha vea look at what the British educator has to sayabout his own system.

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It is w rong to suppose tha t w e ha ve to cho osebetween internal assessment and externalexaminations. We should have both. The formerwill ensure that the student applies himself tohis studies throughout the year, and the latterwill have the advantages that Harrison talks of.It would however be a mistake to add internalassessment scores to the external; this may temptinstitutions to inflate the internal scores. TheEducation Commission suggests giving the twoseparately in the student's record. To the extentthat institutions establish a name for reliability,their internal grades may protect a student frommishaps in the external examination. The internalgra de s w ill a lso give the stud en t greater con fide nceand eliminate the tensions that are partlyresponsible for those mishaps.

As for what happens in many examinationcentres, from rowdyism to murder, the cure isnot examination reform, but firm handling ofwrongdoers. Now that the hooligans havediscovered that they can get away with anything,an improvement in the reliability of examinationswill not induce them to desist. Education hadbetter conserve its energies for matters purelyeducational, leaving it to the law to deal withcrime.(i) What is the significance of Oscar Wilde's

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(ii) What are the advantages recognized in theInternal assessment and Objective testrespectively ?

(iii) What is the order of priority ordinarilyexpected of an academic examination to testthe students ?

(iv) Wha t is the cure, recom m end ed in the passage,other than the examination reforms ?

(v) (a) Specify the words from the passagemeaning :condemning, distorted +1=2

(b) Use the following words/phrases in yourown sentences :imperceptible, get away with 1+1=2

4. (A) Develop counter-arguments to the followingstatements in about 75 words each : x5=10(i) MI in retail in India is a bane for a small

trader.(ii) Control of social media is an anti-democratic

proposition.(B) Write a report in about 250 words on ONE of

the following : 0(i) As a correspondent of a national newspaper,

write a report on the impasse in the 2012Monsoon Session of the Indian Parliament.

(ii) Draft a report suggesting measures toencourage Water Harvesting in India.

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(C) Do as directed : x10-10(a) (i) He was very tired. He did not go out for

a walk. Combine using `too....to')(ii) As soon as the Chief guest arrived, the

programme started.(Rewrite the sentence starting with`No sooner')

(iii) Had I known you were not comingComplete the sentence)

(iv) It is very humid. It is better to wearcottons.(Combine these sentences starting with`Considering')

(v) The mason is building the wall.(Change the voice)

(vi) Why couldn't you complete the workin time ? Change the voice)

(vii) I admire her. I cannot agree witheverything she does.(Combine the sentences using 'Much')

(viii) The reason why she is absent today isbecause her husband is ill.

(Correct the sentence)(ix) Climb the mountain, cross the river

and attack the enemy, said theCommanding Officer to the soldiers.

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(x) The teacher said to Rakesh, "What timewill the train arrive ?"

(Change the narration)(b) Use the following phrasal verbs in sentencesof your own so as to bring out their correct

meaning : x5=5put up withfall outmake outdeal incall on

(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositionsin the following sentences : x5=5(i) The railway track runs he river

and the road.(ii) Since Raju was the influence

of bad company, his parents were greatlyperturbed.

(iii) While walking he small door,she hurt her head.

(iv) Nobody dies a bad cold.(v) Dr. Pandit is an authority

Mathematics.

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