When academicians are called to deliver lecture or presentation to an audience…
2014
When academicians are called to deliver lecture or presentation to an audience on certain topics or a set of topics of educational nature, it is called
Answer: B. Seminar — Concept: Academic gatherings are named by how knowledge moves through them, not by who attends. Three axes separate them — how many people formally present,…
- A.
Training Program
- B.
Seminar
- C.
Workshop
- D.
Symposium
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Correct answer: B
Concept: Academic gatherings are named by how knowledge moves through them, not by who attends. Three axes separate them — how many people formally present, whether the audience mainly receives and discusses the content or works with its own hands, and whether the aim is to share scholarly understanding or to build a defined skill.
Application: The stem supplies exactly three facts: academicians are invited; they deliver a lecture or presentation; the matter is a topic, or a set of topics, of educational nature. Read against the three axes, the content is delivered to an audience rather than produced by it, and the aim is to share scholarly understanding rather than to build a named competency. That rules out the two skill/practice formats and leaves the two presentation formats, seminar and symposium; the stem adds no requirement that several speakers divide one common theme between them. The format described is the seminar, which is what the official key for this paper records.
Contrast — what characteristically defines each format:
Format | Characteristic defining feature |
|---|---|
Training programme | A structured, usually multi-session course built around a defined skill or competency that participants are expected to acquire; its success is judged by the competency gained rather than by ideas exchanged. |
Workshop | A hands-on working session in which a small group of participants practise a technique or produce an output themselves, guided by a resource person rather than lectured to. |
Symposium | A formal meeting marked by a plurality of invited presenters, each treating a different facet of one common theme, with the audience putting questions to the assembled panel afterwards. |
Seminar | An academic meeting at which invited experts address an assembled audience on a subject area, the exchange of ideas arising mainly from that address and the discussion around it. |
Cross-check: Apply the three axes back to the stem. It names no hands-on practice, so the workshop reading fails; it names no competency to be acquired, so the training-programme reading fails. Symposium is the one genuine near-miss, because “academicians” is plural — but a symposium is marked by several speakers each taking a different facet of ONE common theme, whereas the stem expressly allows “a topic or a set of topics” and imposes no common theme at all. An invited scholarly address to an audience on educational topics is the seminar.