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UPSC PYQs: Assumptions

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Using the same net-zero passage, consider: I. Supply-side investment can encourage low-carbon behaviour. II. People cannot adopt low-carbon behaviour without government or company involvement. Which assumption(s) are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
Using the battery-recycling passage, consider: I. Automobile factories are themselves examples of a circular economy. II. Economic growth can be compatible with circular use of mineral resources. Which assumption(s) are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
Using the corporate-capitalism passage, consider: I. It promotes expansion of employment opportunities. II. Poor and marginalized groups can benefit because additional State revenue can finance welfare and wider opportunity. Which assumptions are valid?2025 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
From the same RTE passage, assess assumptions: RTE guarantees teacher accountability; guarantees 100% enrolment; intends to exploit demographic dividend.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
For the desertification passage, assess assumptions: it is only a tropical phenomenon; deforestation can lead to floods and desertification.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
From the same climate-adaptation passage, assess assumptions: livelihood diversification is a coping strategy; monocropping can drive loss of crop varieties and wild relatives.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
A passage on climate finance discusses the policy complexity of climate change and the need to build adaptive capacity. Consider assumptions: 1. Climate change is not a challenge for developed countries. 2. Climate change is a complex policy and development issue. 3. Finance is needed to build adaptive capacity in developing countries. Which are valid?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
A passage says the industrial-age education model is poorly suited to a knowledge society. Which assumption is most consistent with the passage?2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
From the tiger-conservation passage, assess assumptions: 1. Relocation of tigers between protected areas is often unsuccessful. 2. India lacks suitable tiger-protection law and its conservation programme has failed.2018 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
In general, religious traditions stress our duty to God, or to some universal ethical principle. Our duties to one another derive from these. The religious concept of rights is primarily derived from our relationship to this divinity or principle and the implication it has on our other relationships. This correspondence between rights and duties is critical to any further understanding of justice. But for justice to be practiced, rights and duties cannot remain formal abstractions. They must be grounded in a community bound together by a sense of common union. Even as a personal virtue, this solidarity is essential to the practice and understanding of justice.\n\nWith reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. Human relationships are derived from their religious traditions. 2. Human beings can be duty bound only if they believe in God. 3. Religious traditions are essential to practice and understand justice. Which assumption(s) is/are valid?2016 · Prelims CSAT · Reading Comprehension · Assumptions
From the democracy passage, assess the assumptions that non-Western countries cannot have democracy because it is Western, and that Western countries always try to impose democracy.2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
The malnutrition passage says poverty is not the main cause. Which proposed reasons are valid: working mothers do not prioritise children; public-health authorities fail to propagate nutritional awareness?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions
From the same misery passage, are these assumptions valid: physical/material help is primary; charitable homes and hospitals can largely remove misery?2013 · Prelims CSAT · CSAT · Assumptions