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CAT 2006 — VARC Question 2

Mixed ClassificationEasy

Each of the questions below has a set of sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

A. Facts, which deal with the pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘F’)
B. Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘I’)
C. Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’)

Select the answer option that best describes the set of statements.

  1. Given the poor quality of service in the public sector, the HIV/AIDS affected should be switching to private initiatives that supply anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) at a low cost.
  2. The government has been supplying free drugs since 2004, and 35000 have benefited up to now - though the size of the affected population is 150 times this number.
  3. The recent initiatives of networks and companies like AIDS Care Network, Emcure, Reliance-Cipla-CII, would lead to availability of much-needed drugs to a larger number of affected people.
  4. But  how ironic  it is  that  we should face a  perennial  shortage  of  drugs  when India  is  one of  the world‘s largest suppliers of generic drugs to the developing world.

Answer & solution

  • JFIJ

  • B

    JIIJ

  • C

    IFIJ

  • D

    IFFJ

  • E

    JFII

Solution

The given options require you to evaluate statement 1 as either a judgement or an inference. ‘Given the poor quality of services in the public sector … ’ is more of a judgement than an inference. Based on this the conclusion “should be switching….” establishes statement 1 as a judgement.  This eliminates options 3 and 4.
The numbers in statement 2 are a result of direct verification. Hence, it is easy to see that statement 2 is a fact. This eliminates option 2.
Evaluating options 1 and 5, both of which say statement 4 is an inference, one has to now establish whether statement 5 is an inference or a judgement (as per the options 1 and 5).
“… how ironic it is..” is neither verified nor verifiable through facts. Statement 4 is a judgement.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

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