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STATEMENT AND COURSE OF ACTION MCQs

Total Questions : 115 | Page 3 of 12 pages
Question 21.

  • Statement:

  • If the faculty members also join the strike, there is going to be a serious problem.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The faculty members should be persuaded not to go on strike.

  • II. Those faculty members who join the strike should be suspended.

  • III. The management should not worry about such small things.

  1.    Only I follows
  2.    Only II follows
  3.    Both II and III follow
  4.    None follows
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Only I follows
Answer: (a)
The best way to prevent faculty members to go on strike is to persuade them.
Hence, Course of action I show the right course of action.
Question 22.

  • Statement:

  • The members belonging to two local clubs occasionally fight with each other on the main road and block traffic movement.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The local police station should immediately deploy police personnel round the clock on the main road.

  • II. Those involved in fighting should be identified and put behind bars.

  • III. The local administration should disband the management of the two clubs with immediate effect.

  1.    Both I and II follow
  2.    Both Il and III follow
  3.    Both I and III follow
  4.    All follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Both I and III follow
Answer: (c)
A proper course of action would be serving notices to these clubs to behave themselves.
Even police personnel may be deployed but only during the sensitive hours.
Question 23.

  • Statement:

  • Many students of the local school fell ill for the fourth time in a row in the last six months after consuming food prepared by the school canteen.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The school management should immediately terminate the contract of the canteen and ask for compensation.

  • II. The school management should advise all the students not a eat food articles from the canteen.

  • III. The owner of the canteen should immediately be arrested for negligence.

  1.    None follows
  2.    Only II follows
  3.    Only III follows
  4.    Both I and II follow
  5.    Both II and III follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> None follows
Answer: (a)
Courses of action I and III would be too harsh; II is absurd. Efforts should be made to supervise the quality of the food prepared by the canteen.
Question 24.

  • Statement:

  • Many school buses have fitted CNG kit without observing the safety guidelines properly.

  • This results in some instances of these buses catching fire due to short circuit and endangering the lives of the school children.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The regional transport authority should immediately carry out checks of all the school buses fitted with CNG kit.

  • II. The management of all the schools should stop hiring buses fitted with CNG kit.

  • III. The Government should issue a notification banning school buses for the use of CNG kit.

  1.    Only I follows
  2.    Only II follows
  3.    Only III follows
  4.    Both I and III follow
  5.    None of the above
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Only I follows
Answer: (a)
Course of action I is the correct course of action.
Courses of action II and III would create a bigger problem, like pollution.
Question 25.

  • Statement:

  • Lack of coordination between the university, its colleges and various authorities have resulted in students ousted from one college seeking migration to another.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the university.

  • II. The admissions to all the colleges of the universities should be handled by the university directly.

  • III. A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.

  1.    Only I follows
  2.    Only II follows
  3.    Only III follows
  4.    Both I and III follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Only I follows
Answer: (a)
Only Course of action I is the right course of action which says that, if a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the university.
This is the way by which coordination between the university and the colleges can be maintained.
Question 26.

  • Statement:

  • In the city, over 75% of the people are living in slums and substandard houses, which is a reflection on the housing and urban development policies of the Government.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. There should be a separate department looking after housing and urban development.

  • II. The policies in regard to urban housing should be reviewed.

  • III. The policies regarding rural housing should also be reviewed so that such problems could be avoided in rural areas.

  1.    Only I follows
  2.    Only II follows
  3.    Both II and III follow
  4.    Either II or III follows
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Only II follows
Answer: (b)
The statement speaks of the failure of housing and urban development policies of the Government, hence the policies in regard to urban housing should be reviewed.
Question 27.

  • Statement:

  • Many school buses have fitted CNG kit without observing the safety guidelines properly.

  • A large private bank has decided to retrench one-third of its employees in view of the huge losses incurred by it during the past three quarters.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The Government should issue a notification to the general public to immediately stop all transactions with the bank.

  • II. The Government should direct the bank to refrain from retrenching its employees.

  • III. The Government should ask the central bank of the country to initiate an enquiry into the bank's activities and submit its report.

  1.    None follows
  2.    Only I follows
  3.    Only II follows
  4.    Only III follows
  5.    Both I and II follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Only III follows
Answer: (d)
Course of action I would be an extreme step.
Course of action II is not within the Government's preview.
Course of action III is advisable when there is retrenchment on such a large scale.
Question 28.

  • Statement:

  • Some strains of mosquito have become resistant to chloroquine, the widely used medicine for malaria patients.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. Selling of chloroquine should be stopped.

  • II. Researchers should develop a new medicine for patients affected by such mosquitos.

  • III. All the patients suffering from malaria should be checked for identification of causal mosquito.

  1.    None follows
  2.    Both I and II follow
  3.    Both II and III follow
  4.    All follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Both II and III follow
Answer: (c)
It is given in the statement that chloroquine has become ineffective for malaria patients.
Therefore, researchers should develop a new medicine for the patients and all the patients suffering from malaria should be checked for identification of the causal mosquito.
Question 29.

  • Statement:

  • The institute has fixed for the investors a validity period of one year for transfer forms for some of its listed schemes.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The institute should consult investors before fixing the duration of the validity period.

  • II. The investors should be duly informed about the validity period.

  • III. List of schemes covered under this validity period should be communicated.

  1.    All follow
  2.    Both I and II follow
  3.    Both I and III follow
  4.    Both II and III follow
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Both II and III follow
Answer: (d)
The investors should be informed about the validity period, and the list of schemes covered under this validity period should be communicated so that the investors can benefit from this facility.
Question 30.

Directions : In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the three given suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.




  • Statement:

  • There have been quite a few incidents of highway robbery on the super expressway between cities A and B during recent months.



  • Courses of Action:

  • I. The local administration should immediately set up police tickets along the expressway to prevent robbery.

  • II. The local administration should immediately close down the expressway till the robbers are apprehended.

  • III. More and more people should be given training on how to tackle with the robbers.

  1.    Only I follows
  2.    Only I and II follow
  3.    Only I and III follow
  4.    All follow
  5.    None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Only I follows
Answer: (a)
Clearly, incidents of robbery can be practically averted only by tightening security arrangements and increasing vigilance by police.
So, I follows. Neither II nor III follows as none of them is practically viable.

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