UPSC CSE 2024 · PYQ · Reading Comprehension / Central Idea · medium
Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea conveyed by the passage?
A.Total eradication of poverty in the country will resolve the issue of under-performance of our school-children.
B.Monetary incentives to parents and teachers is a strategy to improve the children's academic performance.
C.Public policy should ensure that competencies and achievements of young people are aligned with their expectations.✓ Correct
D.India is not going to take advantage of the demographic dividend unless some school pass-outs go back to agriculture.
Explanation
The passage's central concern is that school graduates have aspirations to go to high school and college but their actual academic competencies fall far short of even class 8 curricular expectations. The implication is that public policy must align competencies and achievements with the expectations these young people and their families hold. Option (a) about poverty eradication is not the passage's claim. Option (b) about monetary incentives is not mentioned. Option (d) about agriculture is contradicted by the passage which says hardly anyone wants to go back to agriculture. Hence (c) best reflects the central idea.
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