Explore topic-wise MCQs in Statement Assumptions.

Statement: "I have not received telephone bills for nine months inspite of several complaints" - A telephone customer's letter to the editor of a daily

Assumptions:

1. Every customer has a right to get bills regularly from the telephone company.

2. The customer's complaints point to defect in the services which are expected to be corrected.

Statement: Please do not use lift while going down - an instruction on the top floor of a five-storey building.

Assumptions:

1. While going down, the lift is unable to carry any load.

2. Provision of lift is a matter of facility and not of right.

Statement: Never before such a lucid book was available on the topic.

Assumptions:

1. Some other books were available on this topic.

2. You can write lucid books on very few topics.

Statement: The government has decided to disinvest large chunk of its equity in select public sector undertakings for a better fiscal management.

Assumptions:

1. The amount generated out of the disinvestment process may reduce substantially the mounting fiscal deficits.

2. There will be enough demand in the market for the shares of these undertakings.

Statement: It will be a substantial achievement in the field of education if one provides one school for every village in our country and enforce attendance.

Assumptions:

1. Children in villages do not attend school regularly.

2. Providing school to every village is desirable.

Statement: The Government has decided to levy 2 percent on the tax amount payable for funding drought relief programmes.

Assumptions:

1. The Government does not have sufficient money to fund drought relief programmes.

2. The amount collected by way of surcharge may be adequate to fund these drought relief programmes.

Statement: Detergents should be used to clean clothes.

Assumptions:

1. Detergents form more lather.

2. Detergents help to dislodge grease and dirt.

Statement: The concession in rail fares for the journey to hill stations has been cancelled because it is not needed for people who can spend their holidays there.

Assumptions:

1. Railways should give concession only to needy persons.

2. Railways should not encourage people to spend their holidays at hill stations.

Statement: "This drink can be had either as it is, or after adding ice to it." - An advertisement.

Assumptions:

1. People differ in their preferences.

2. Some people will get attracted to the drink as it can be had as it is.

Statement: "The bridge was built at the cost of Rs. 128 crores and even civil bus service is not utilizing it, what a pity to see it grossly underutilized." - A citizen's view on a new flyover linking east and west sides of a suburb.

Assumptions:

1. The building of such bridges does not serve any public objective.

2. There has to be some accountability and utility of money spent on public projects.

Statement: If it is easy to become an engineer, I don't want to be an engineer.

Assumptions:

1. An individual aspires to be professional.

2. One desires to achieve a thing which is hard earned.

Statement: A warning in a train compartment - "To stop train, pull chain. Penalty for improper use Rs. 500."

Assumptions:

1. Some people misuse the alarm chain.

2. On certain occasions, people may want to stop a running train.

Statement: The State government has decided to appoint four thousand primary school teachers during the next financial year.

Assumptions:

1. There are enough schools in the state to accommodate four thousand additional primary school teachers.

2. The eligible candidates may not be interested to apply as the government may not finally appoint such a large number of primary school teachers.

Statement: "If you trouble me, I will slap you." - A mother warns her child.

Assumptions:

1. With the warning, the child may stop troubling her.

2. All children are basically naughty.

Statement: Unemployment allowance should be given to all unemployed Indian youth above 18 years of age.

Assumptions:

1. There are unemployed youth in India who needs monetary support.

2. The government has sufficient funds to provide allowance to all unemployed youth

Statement: "In order to bring punctuality in our office, we must provide conveyance allowance to our employees." - In charge of a company tells Personnel Manager.

Assumptions:

1. Conveyance allowance will not help in bringing punctuality.

2. Discipline and reward should always go hand in hand.

Statement: It is desirable to put the child in school at the age of 5 or so.

Assumptions:

1. At that age the child reaches appropriate level of development and is ready to learn.

2. The schools do not admit children after six years of age.

Statement : Should new universities be established in India ?

Argument :
I. No. We have still not achieved the target of literacy.
II. No. We will have to face the problem of unemployed but highly qualified people.

Statement: "You are hereby appointed as a programmer with a probation period of one year and your performance will be reviewed at the end of the period for confirmation." - A line in an appointment letter.

Assumptions:

1. The performance of an individual generally is not known at the time of appointment offer.

2. Generally an individual tries to prove his worth in the probation period.

Statement: Why don't you go to the court if the employer does not pay you the Provident Fund contribution?

Assumptions:

1. Courts can intervene in matters of dispute between employer and employees.

2. It is obligatory for the employer to pay the Provident Fund contribution to the employees.

Statement: "If you want to give any advertisement, give it in the newspaper X." - A tells B.

Assumptions:

1. B wants to publicise his products.

2. Newspaper X has a wide circulation.

Statement: "But out of A, B, C and D products, you buy B which alone is based on the international technology."- A shopkeeper tells a customer.

Assumptions:

1. The customers normally accept the recommendation of the shopkeeper.

2. Use of international technology is supposed to ensure better quality standards.

Statement: The organization should promote employees on the basis of merit alone and not on the basis of length of service or seniority.

Assumptions:

1. Length of service or seniority does not alone reflect merit of an employee.

2. It is possible to determine and measure merit of an employee.

Statement: Today I must satisfy myself only by looking at a pink headed duck in an encyclopaedia.

Assumptions:

1. Pink headed ducks are as good as extinct now.

2. People refer to encyclopaedia to know only about things which do not exist now.

Statement: If he is intelligent, he will pass the examination.

Assumptions:

1. To pass, he must be intelligent.

2. He will pass the examination.

Statement: "Computer education should start at schools itself."

Assumptions:

1. Learning computers is easy.

2. Computer education fetches jobs easily.

Statement: Shalini made an application to the bank for a loan of Rs. 1,80,000 by mortgaging her house to the bank and promised to repay it within five years.

Assumptions:

1. The bank has a practice of granting loans for Rs. 1,00,000 and above.

2. The bank accepts house as collateral security against such loans.

Statement: "As there is a great demand, every person seeking tickets of the programme will be given only five tickets."

Assumptions:

1. The organizers are not keen on selling the tickets.

2. No one is interested in getting more than five tickets.

Statement: Many historians have done more harm than good by distorting truth.

Assumptions:

1. People believe what is reported by the historians.

2. Historians are seldom expected to depict the truth.

Statement: Kartik left for Delhi on Tuesday by train to attend a function to be held on Friday at his uncle's house in Delhi.

Assumptions:

1. Kartik may reach Delhi on Wednesday.

2. Kartik may reach Delhi before Friday.

Statement: His recent investment in the shares of Company A is only a gamble.

Assumptions:

1. He may incur loss on his investment.

2. He may gain from his investment.

Statement: You know that your suit is excellent when people ask about your tailor who tailored the suit.

Assumptions:

1. People do not ask about your tailor if your suit is not good.

2. The people want to know the criterion of an excellent suit.

Statement: Children are influenced more by their teachers nowadays.

Assumptions:

1. The children consider teachers as their models.

2. A large amount of children's time is spent in school.

Statement: Apart from the entertainment value of television, its educational value cannot be ignored.

Assumptions:

1. People take television to be a means of entertainment only.

2. The educational value of television is not realised properly.

Statement: Of all the newspapers published in Mumbai, readership of the "Times" is the largest in the Metropolis.

Assumptions:

1. 'Times' is not popular in mofussil areas.

2. 'Times' has the popular feature of cartoons on burning social and political issues.

Statement: The government has decided to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 1 lakh to the family members of those who are killed in railway accidents.

Assumptions:

1. The government has enough funds to meet the expenses due to compensation.

2. There may be reduction in incidents of railway accidents in near future.

Statement: Films have become indispensable for the entertainment of people.

Assumptions:

1. Films are the only media of entertainment.

2. People enjoy films.

Statement: There has been a remarkable increase in the air traffic in India during the past few years.

Assumptions:

1. Travelling by air has become a status symbol now.

2. Large numbers of peoples are able to afford air travel now

Statement: I can take you quickly from Kanpur to Lucknow by my cab but then you must pay me double the normal charges,

Assumptions:

1. Normally, it will take more time to reach Lucknow from Kanpur.

2. People want to reach quickly but they will not pay extra money for it

Statement: Whenever you have any doubt on this subject, you may refer to the book by Enn and Enn.

Assumptions:

1. The book by Enn and Enn is available.

2. There is no other book on this subject.

Statement: The government has decided to hold the employers responsible for deducting tax at source for all its employees.

Assumptions:

1. The employers may still not arrange to deduct tax at source for its employees.

2. The employees may not allow the employers to deduct tax at source.

Statement: All the employees are notified that the organisation will provide transport facilities at half cost from the nearby railway station to the office except those who have been provided with travelling allowance.

Assumptions:

1. Most of the employees will travel by the office transport.

2. Those who are provided with travelling allowance will not read such notice.

Statement: Highly brilliant and industrious students do not always excel in the written examination.

Assumptions:

1. The written examination is good mainly for mediocre students.

2. The brilliant and industrious students cannot always write good answers in the exam

Statement: "You should not grant him leave in this week due to exigency of work." - A supervisor advises the administrative officer.

Assumptions:

1. Request for leave can be turned down also.

2. The supervisor has reviewed the work required to be done during the said period.

Statement: Like a mad man, I decided to follow him.

Assumptions:

1. I am not a mad man.

2. I am a mad man.

Statement: Of all the radio sets manufactured in India, the 'X' brand has the largest sale.

Assumptions:

1. The sale of all the radio sets manufactured in India is known.

2. The manufacturing of no other radio set in India is as large as 'X' brand radio.

Statement: The coffee powder of company X is quite better in taste than the much advertised coffee of company Y.

Assumptions:

1. If your product is not good, your spend more on advertisement.

2. Some people are tempted to buy a product by the advertisement.

Statement: The district administration has issued a circular to all the farmers under its jurisdiction advising them for not using pesticides indiscriminately as it may pollute the ground water.

Assumptions:

1. People may stop using ground water if the farmers continue to use pesticides indiscriminately.

2. Farmers may refrain from using pesticides indiscriminately.

Statement: The campaign of 'Keep your city clean' started by the Civil Council did not evoke any response from the citizens.

Assumptions:

1. People do not desire to keep their city clean.

2. The Civil Council has failed in its campaign.

Statement: All existing inequalities can be reduced, if not utterly eradicated, by action of governments or by revolutionary change of government.

Assumptions:

1. Inequality is a man-made phenomenon.

2. No person would voluntarily part with what he possesses.