Passage: Conventional classrooms, by emphasizing fixed duration over learning effectiveness, resign themselves to variable outcomes... This is how we end up with 10 percent employability in our graduates after a decade and half of formal education. Repeating the same ineffectual script in the realm of skill education will not produce different results.
Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
1. As a large number of workers in our country are employed in unorganized sector, India does not need to change its present conventional classroom system of education.
2. Even with its present conventional classroom system of education, India produces sufficient number of skilled workers to fully realize the benefits of demographic dividend.
Which of the assumptions given above is/are valid?
A.1 only
B.2 only
C.Both 1 and 2
D.Neither 1 nor 2✓ Correct
Explanation
The passage strongly criticizes the conventional classroom system and asserts only 10% employability — clearly implying India NEEDS to change its conventional system. So assumption 1 (no need to change) contradicts the passage. Assumption 2 (India produces sufficient skilled workers) also contradicts the passage which states only 10% employability — clearly insufficient. Neither assumption is valid as both are opposite to what the passage argues.
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