Tuesday 23 October 2012

Career Mania 55: GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: Critical Reasoning Questions: CLAT 2013

Career Mania 55
Career news.....www.careermania55.koolcentre.in,movies news.....www.koolcentre.in
GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: Critical Reasoning Questions: CLAT 2013
Oct 23rd 2012, 08:06

GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012
The source for all engineering and legal education news in India
Critical Reasoning Questions: CLAT 2013
Oct 23rd 2012, 08:01

Solve the following questions:- Although its purpose is laudable, the exclusionary rule, which forbids a court to consider evidence seized in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights, has unduly hampered law-enforcement efforts. Even when the rights violation was a minor or purely technical one, turning on a detail of procedure rather than on the abrogation of some fundamental liberty, and even when it has been clear that the police officers were acting in good faith, the evidence obtained has been considered tainted under this rule and may not even by introduced. In consequence, defendants who were undoubtedly guilty have been set free, perhaps to steal, rape, or murder again. 1) The author of the passage above assumes all of the following EXCEPT: (A) The constitutional rights of criminal defendants should be protected. (B) Most cases in which the exclusionary rule has been invoked have involved purely technical violations of constitutional principles. (C) The number of cases whose outcome has been affected by the exclusionary rule is significant. (D) Some of the defendants set free under the exclusionary rule have been guilty of serious criminal offenses. 2) It can be inferred from the passage that the author would most likely endorse which of the following proposals? (A) Change of the exclusionary rule to admit evidence obtained by police officers acting in good faith (B) A constitutional amendment curtailing some of the protections traditionally afforded those accused of a crime (C) A statute limiting the application of the exclusionary rule to cases involving minor criminal offenses (D) Change of the exclusionary rule to allow any evidence, no matter how obtained, to be introduced in court 3. The postal service is badly mismanaged. Forty years ago, first-class letter delivery cost only three cents. Since then, the price has increased nearly tenfold, with an actual decrease in the speed and reliability of service. Each of the following statements, if true, would tend to weaken the argument above EXCEPT: (A) The volume of mail handled by the postal service has increased dramatically over the last forty years. (B) Unprecedented increases in the cost of fuel for trucks and planes have put severe upward pressures on postal delivery costs. (C) Private delivery services usually charge more than does the postal service for comparable delivery charges. (D) The average level of consumer prices overall has increased more than 300 percent over the last forty years. 4. When the government of a nation announced recently that a leader of the nation's political opposition had died of a mysterious illness in prison, few seasoned observers of the regime were surprised. As the police captain in an old movie remarked when asked about the condition of a prisoner, "We're trying to decide whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape." The statements above invite which of the following conclusions? (A) The opposition leader was probably killed trying to escape from prison. (B) The opposition leader may not be dead at all. (C) It is unlikely that the head of the regime knows the true cause of the opposition leader's death. (D) The regime very likely was responsible for the death of the opposition leader. Questions 5-6 are based on the following. In the industrialized nations, the last century has witnessed a shortening of the average workday from twelve hours or longer to less than eight hours. Mindful of this enormous increase in leisure time over the past century, many people assume that the same trend has obtained throughout history, and that, therefore, prehistoric humans must have labored incessantly for their very survival. We cannot, of course, directly test this assumption. However, a study of primitive peoples of today suggests a different conclusion. The Mbuti of central Africa, for instance, spend only a few hours each day in hunting, gathering, and tending to other economic necessities. The rest of their time is spent as they choose. The implication is that the short workday is not peculiar to industrialized societies. Rather, both the extended workday of 1880 and the shorter workday of today are products of different stages of the continuing process of industrialization. 5. Which of the following inferences about industrialization is best supported by the passage above? (A) People in advanced industrialized societies have more leisure time than those in non industrialized societies. (B) An average workday of twelve hours or more is peculiar to economies in the early stages of industrialization. (C) Industrialization involves a trade-off between tedious, monotonous jobs and the benefits of increased leisure. (D) It is likely that the extended workday of an industrializing country will eventually be shortened. 6. Which of the following, if true, would most greatly strengthen the argument made in the passage above? (A) In recent decades, the economy of the Mbuti has been markedly affected by the encroachment of modern civilization. (B) The life-style of the Mbuti is similar to that of prehistoric humans. (C) The Mbuti have no words in their language to express the distinction between work activities and leisure activities. (D) The members of the Shaklik tribe in central Asia have an average workday of ten to twelve hours. 7. Isabela: Those who advocate tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend private schools maintain that people making no use of a government service should not be forced to pay for it. Yet those who choose to buy bottled water rather than drink water from the local supply are not therefore exempt from paying taxes to maintain the local water supply. Roger: Your argument is illogical. Children are required by law to attend school. Since school attendance is a matter not of choice, but of legal requirement, it is unfair for the government to force some parents to pay for it twice. Which of the following responses by Isabela would best refute Roger's charge that her argument is illogical? (A) Although drinking water is not required by law, it is necessary for all people, and therefore my analogy is appropriate. (B) Those who can afford the tuition at a high-priced private school can well bear the same tax burden as those whose children attend public schools. (C) If tuition tax credits are granted, the tax burden on parents who choose public schools will rise to an intolerable level. (D) The law does not say that parents must send their children to private schools, only that the children must attend some kind of school, whether public or private.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

No comments:

Post a Comment