English Quiz for 2nd August English Quiz for SBI Clerk Mains 2020

ToSBI Clerk Mains English Language Quiz

Is your DREAM to get selected in SBI Clerk 2020 recruitment? Well, then you must speed up your preparation as the Main exam which is the final step towards selection will soon be announced. So, students should utilize this time intelligently. The English Language is one of the subjects you’ll need to deal with and to help you keep your preparation up to the mark, here we provide you with a questionnaire of English Language to crack SBI Clerk Main. For other subjects, you can check the SBI Clerk Mains Study Plan.

Directions (1-6): In the following passage, some blanks are given. Against each blank a number is assigned. For each blank four alternatives are provided. You have to choose the appropriate alternative for each blank. If none of the given alternatives fit the given blank, then choose option (e), ‘None of these’ as your answer.

More than 2,400 students have dropped out of the most sought _______(1)______ IITs in the past two years, reveals data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to the RajyaSabha. Of the 2,461 dropouts recorded from the 23 IITs, about 57% were from the IIT- Delhi and the IIT-Kharagpur, the data tabled on July 25 points out.

The IIT-Delhi recorded 782 dropouts and Kharagpur 622. The number in the other IITs like Kanpur, Bombay and Madras was far less. While 263 students dropped out of IIT-Bombay, 190 dropped out of IIT-Kanpur and only 128 from IIT -Madras. Another interesting aspect which _______(2)_______ from the data is that 1,171 of the dropouts, which is 47.5%, are from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Class category.

In its response to the question asked by RajyaSabha MP from Andhra Pradesh V. Vijayasai Reddy, the MHRD said the reasons could be attributed to “shifting to the other colleges/ institutions, personal reasons, medical reasons, placement during PG courses and pursuing higher education abroad”. “The dropout in the undergraduate programmes is _______(3)_______ to withdrawal due to wrong choices filled, poor academic performance, personal and medical reasons,” the MHRD said, adding that the institutes were taking correctional measures to “de-stress students”.

Asked why students from the reserved category are dropping out in such a high number, Somesh Kumar, Dean of Students Affairs at IIT-Kharagpur, said the figures were not alarming. “The _______(4)_______ of students from the weaker sections in the IITs is almost 50% and if similar number of students drop out there is nothing ________(5)_______ in it,” he said. Referring to the reservation in the IITs, he said 15% seats were reserved for the SC category, 7.5% for the STs and 27% for the OBC category, which makes it 49.5%.

According to the Dean, IIT -Kharagpur has set up a _______(6)_______ centre and a welfare group that helps students cope up with stress. For instance, a student gets a chance to pursue B. Tech in Agriculture and Food Technology but drops out if he/she gets other streams like Computer Science in other institutes, the professor said.While Prof. Kumar said there was nothing unusual in the dropout figures, there were other who want the matter to be investigated further.

Q1.

(a) About

(b) For

(c) After

(d) To

(e) None of these.

Q2.

(a) Exposes

(b) Emerges

(c) Deviated

(d) Emanated

(e) None of these.

Q3.

(a) Attributed

(b) Abrogated

(c) Moved

(d) Confined

(e) None of these.

Q4.

(a) Protest

(b) Raise

(c) Amalgamation

(d) Intake

(e) None of these.

Q5.

(a) Relevant

(b) Unusual

(c) Eventually

(d) Regarding

(e) None of these.

Q6.

(a) Renovating

(b) Dispersing

(c) Recommending

(d) Counselling

(e) None of these.

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