As IBPS has released the official notification of the Common Recruitment Process for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre Posts and the exam is tentatively scheduled to be held December 2018 & January 2019. Looking at the notification, we have now started subject-wise quizzes for the exam. It will include quizzes of all the subjects- Quantitative Aptitude, English, Reasoning and Computer. All these quizzes will be strictly based on the latest pattern of the IBPS Clerk exam and will be beneficial for your preparations. So, keep following the quizzes which will provide you a set of 10 questions daily.
Here, we are providing you important questions of English Language for IBPS Clerk 2018 exam.
Q.1-10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.
Purshottam Burman needs to cross the Beki river in Assam’s Baksa district six times a day. That’s the only way he can do his work. He is the teacher, clerk, cashier, and errand boy at the Unnaguri LP School. In addition, he also teaches at another school across the river.
But even if Burman shows the almost inhuman enterprise his job demands, he can’t be at two places at one time. So, the children at the Unnaguri school, who rarely see Burman in class, have their own theory: that he cites his “dual duty” to actually stay at home and avoid being at either school. The Unnaguri school is a reflection of what many educationists believe is the biggest challenge facing Indian education—a crippling shortage of teachers, coupled with widespread teacher absenteeism. The Right to Education Act lays down strict teacher-pupil ratio that all schools must adhere to. It also requires that all elementary school teachers should have the BEd degree they needed before the law came into force. They should have also cleared a teacher eligibility test within five years of joining. The test is aimed at improving the standard of teaching, but a vacuum in training infrastructure means the task may take significantly longer. The RTE Act requires that a school with less than 60 students have at least two teachers, with another teacher for every additional 30 students. Even for large schools, with over 200 students, the pupil-teacher ratio must never exceed 40. The norms mean that India needs to hire 6 lakh teachers. The stipulated deadline of September 31, 2010, for hiring these teachers is long gone. At School No. 1-2 in the Asarwa neighbourhood of Ahmedabad, four teachers are managing the work where seven are required to – for Classes 1 to 7. The state of Gujarat needs to hire over 20,000 teachers to meet the RTE Act norms. The state hired 10,000 teachers last year and plans to hire the rest soon, Gujarat principal secretary, education, Hasmukh Adhia said. “Recruitment is underway,” he said.But recruiting teachers solve only a part of the problem, as Assam is finding out. The state needs to hire 95,000 teachers to meet the norms and, by the end of March, Assam had provisionally hired 28,000 teachers. But a lack of enough BEd and other teacher training colleges means that the state can train only 4,000 of these teachers each year — training all the teachers required in 2012 would take till 2040 with the current infrastructure. A court ban had prevented the state from hiring teachers since 2001, but Assam’s crisis finds resonance across the country. Only 40% of schools in India meet the pupil-teacher ratios required by the RTE Act. And that number masks the massive differences between states. Only 15% of elementary schools in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand have adequate teachers. The number drops still further to just 5% for Bihar, while states like Kerala, with 94% schools meeting the required ratio, pull up the national average a bit. The crisis means that devoted teachers often end up absorbing the workload of others, said Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Piku Sarkar of Radha Madhab LP School in Assam’s Barpeta district travels 6 km each day to teach 43 students in seven sections – from kindergarten to Class 5 – simultaneously. Seven blackboards are placed in front of seven clusters of benches. “Sometimes I get dizzy handling so many classes and controlling seven different sets of children together,” Sarkar said. “So I have taken in an assistant to help me occasionally. I pay her out of my own salary.” But even with an assistant, Sarkar struggles to take regular classes, because of non-teaching work including block meetings. “Non-teaching work invariably means holidays,” she said. Teacher absenteeism – because of non-teaching tasks like those that Sarkar is required to perform, because of responsibilities at multiple schools, as is the case with Burman, the Baksa teacher, or simply because of a lack of accountability – means that the challenge won’t end with meeting the pupil-teacher ratio norms. Absenteeism among teachers increased nationally from 11% in 2009 to 14% in 2011. But because of the dearth of teachers, firing the absentee ones represents a Hobson’s choice — it would cripple even the existing schools.
Q.1. Why does Mr. Burman cross the Beki river everyday?
(1) The school he teaches at is across the river.
(2) Thats the only way he can manage his work as he works at another school, that too is across the river.
(3) He is a teacher and a cashier in the same school.
(4) His house is across the river.
(5) None of these
Q.2. What does the Unnaguri school reflect?
(1) Lack of well qualified teachers
(2) There is a shortage of teachers in our country.
(3) Teachers are usually absent from the school.
(4) Only 2 and 3
(5) All 1, 2 and 3
Q.3. What does the RTE act lay down?
(1) Teacher student ratio is 1 : 40
(2) Teachers should clear the TET within five years of their joining
(3) B.Ed is an essential qualification for teachers.
(4) All 1,2 and 3
(5) Only 2 and 3
Q.4. What does the line “I pay her out of my own salary” show about our education system?
(1) Teachers get very good salaries so they keep helpers.
(2) Teachers are overburdened in government schools and so they try to manage themselves.
(3) There are less devoted teachers in govt. schools.
(4) Many teachers are absent from school.
(5) All of the above
Q.5. Why didn’t the government of Assam hire teachers since 2001?
(1) Lack of infrastructure in schools.
(2) Lack of B.Ed teachers.
(3) Due to a ban from the court.
(4) The pupil teacher ratio is adequate.
(5) Presence of ample teachers in schools.
Q.6. Which of the following states show the worst results in terms of teacher availability?
(1) Uttar Pradesh
(2) Jharkhand
(3) Bihar
(4) Kerala
(5) Assam
Q.7. What do you comprehend from statement “seven blackboards are placed in front of seven clusters of benches” ?
(1) There are no students in government schools.
(2) Due to the lack of teachers, students of various classes are taught together.
(3) Infrastructure in schools needs to improve
(4) All 1,2 and 3
(5) Only 1 and 2
Q.8. Which of the following is TRUE in context of the passage?
(1) Kerala ranks the lowest in terms of education.
(2) The teachers in govt. schools are also involved in non-teaching tasks.
(3) Teachers need to be trained adequately for better results.
(4) RTE act lays the instructions to appoint 2 teachers for every 40 students
(5) All of the above
Q.9. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in context of the passage?
(1) India needs to hire 6.5 lakh teachers in the coming years.
(2) There is shortage of teachers in govt. schools of India.
(3) Less than 50% of the schools in India meet the student teacher ratio.
(4) Teachers of govt. schools are struggling hard due to lack of teachers.
(5) None of these
Q.10. What is the aim of the TET test?
(1) Providing training infrastructure to govt schools.
(2) Improving the standard of teaching in schools.
(3) Maintaining the teacher student ratio
(4) All 1,2 and 3
(5) None of these
ANSWERS
Q.1.(2)
Q.2.(4)
Q.3.(4)
Q.4.(2)
Q.5.(3)
Q.6.(3)
Q.7.(2)
Q.8.(2)
Q.9.(1)
Q.10.(2)
