Directions : In each of the following questions, a contextually meaningful…
2021
Directions : In each of the following questions, a contextually meaningful sentence has been given. Three paragraphs have been placed next to each sentence, which may or may not be relevant to the context of the given sentence. You are required to select the most appropriate combination of paragraphs from which the given sentence can be inferred.
There have been no further guidelines created to describe these concepts or specify their constituents in order to assist the appointments.
(i) Various qualifications and constitutional provisions for the freedom of conscience and the right to freely proclaim and disseminate religious practice according to public order were established with these objectives in mind.
(ii) Recruiting agencies are required by the Court and the Model Police Act to shortlist candidates based on length of service, range of experience, and a performance evaluation of the candidates over the previous ten years.
(iii) Reforms in this area must include two elements. The first is that the government's selection and dismissal powers should be delegated to an independent oversight body, of which the government is a component.
- A.
Only (iii)
- B.
Only (i) and (iii)
- C.
Only (ii)
- D.
Only (i) and (ii)
- E.
Only (ii) and (iii)
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Correct answer: E
Concept: In a sentence-inference (para-selection) item, first pin down the single governing theme of the given sentence, then keep only the paragraph(s) that develop that same theme and supply the idea the sentence rests on. A paragraph that introduces an unrelated subject cannot be a source the sentence is inferred from, however well written it is.
Application: The given sentence is about the absence of further guidelines to describe concepts and their constituents "to assist the appointments" — so its theme is recruitment / appointment to office and the rules that govern selection.
The recruiting-agencies statement — describing how candidates are shortlisted by the Court and the Model Police Act on length of service, experience and a ten-year performance review — is squarely about the appointment process, so "the appointments" the sentence refers to are grounded here.
The reforms statement — introducing "two elements" of reform but spelling out only "the first" — is exactly the material whose concepts and constituents are still left undescribed, which is what the sentence says no further guidelines address; it develops the same appointment/selection theme.
The religious-freedom statement — about constitutional provisions for freedom of conscience and the right to propagate religious practice — belongs to a different subject (fundamental rights), not to appointments, so the sentence cannot be inferred from it.
Cross-check: Read the sentence against the recruitment paragraph plus the reforms paragraph: the recruitment paragraph supplies "the appointments", while the reforms paragraph's "two elements" — of which only the first is described — are the concepts whose constituents still lack guidelines. Every reference in the sentence then finds a home, so it is inferred from the recruitment statement and the reforms statement, i.e. (ii) and (iii).