Bank Exams Questions

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The purpose of education is

A man starts from a point, walks 5 km towards East, turns right and walks 3 km, turns right again and walks. What is the direction he is facing now?

Who is the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India?

Consider the given statement/s to be true and decide which of the given conclusions/assumptions can definitely be drawn from the given statement.

STATEMENT: Selectors pick our cricket teams based on regional considerations instead of on pure merit, making it difficult for our teams to win test series against other countries.

Conclusion I: Our cricket teams have no hope of winning test series against other countries.
Conclusion II: Our cricket teams need to be selected on pure merit.

Making Optimal decisions at the margin requires

Select the odd word/letters/number/number pair from the given alternatives.

Spiders belong to which class of animals?

­ A wooden bowl is in shape of a hollow hemisphere of internal radius 8 cm and thickness 1 cm. Find the total surface area of the bowl?