The following are the criteria for hiring an HR Administrator. The applicant…
2024
The following are the criteria for hiring an HR Administrator. The applicant must:
Be a graduate in any field of arts, commerce, or science with a minimum of 70% marks.
Be above 28 years and below 32 years of age.
Have a post-graduation degree in the Human Resource field.
Have experience with HR software, such as HRMS.
Have 2 years or more of experience as an HR.
However, if an applicant satisfies all the above criteria except one of the following, apply the matching exception instead of rejecting the applicant outright:
Except (a) — if the applicant secured 80% marks in HSC and has good in-person communication skills, refer the case to the company's senior General Manager.
Except (d) — if the applicant has 5 years or more of working experience as an HR administrator, refer the case to the Director.
Shreya, a 29-year-old Arts graduate with 72% marks, has completed her post-graduation in HR with 77% marks. She has 1 year of experience operating the happierHR software. She has worked as an HR in a multinational company for 7 years, immediately after completing her graduation.
- A.
The candidate is to be selected.
- B.
The candidate is not to be selected.
- C.
The data is insufficient to decide.
- D.
The candidate is to be referred to the General Manager.
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Correct answer: A
This is a rule-based selection (decision-table) item: treat the passage as a fixed checklist of primary eligibility conditions plus two named exceptions. The method is always the same — test the candidate's stated facts against every primary condition in turn; only when a condition is unmet do you check whether its paired exception is triggered by the stated compensating fact; the final outcome (select, reject, refer, or data insufficient) follows from that condition-by-condition check, never from a single detail read in isolation.
Checking Shreya's profile against each primary condition:
Primary requirement | What it needs | Shreya's stated detail | Met? |
|---|---|---|---|
Graduation stream & marks | Arts / commerce / science graduate, ≥ 70% | Arts graduate, 72% | Yes |
Age | Above 28 and below 32 years | 29 years | Yes |
Post-graduation | HR field | Post-graduate in HR (77%) | Yes |
HR-software experience | Experience with HR software (e.g., HRMS) | 1 year on happierHR software | Yes |
Work experience as HR | 2 years or more | 7 years | Yes |
All five primary requirements are satisfied, so the two exception clauses need to be checked only to confirm they stay switched off: the General-Manager exception activates only when the graduation-marks requirement specifically is unmet, and the Director exception activates only when the HR-software-experience requirement specifically is unmet. Since both of those primary requirements are met here, neither exception's triggering condition is reached.
Cross-check from the other direction: had any one of the five primary requirements actually fallen short, the default outcome would be non-selection unless the one matching exception covered exactly that shortfall. With no shortfall on any of the five, there is nothing for either exception to cover, so the passage's own rules resolve directly to selection.
Result: the candidate is to be selected.