Precis – English – WBPSC Miscellaneous Main Question Paper
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Precis – English – WBPSC Miscellaneous Main Question Paper
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2019
- Give a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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Kapil Dev is a former Indian cricketer. He was a medium fast bowler and a hard hitting middle order batsman. Dev is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game of cricket, he is also regarded as one of the greatest captains in the history of cricket. He was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was India’s national cricket coach between October 1999 and August 2000. He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the greatest number of wickets taken in test Cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India’s highest wicket-taker in both major forms of cricket, Test and ODIs. He is the first player to take 200 ODI wickets. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 11 March, 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He is considered to be the Renaissance man in Indian cricket.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2018
- Give a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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This is the answer to the question, what is the aim of education? Well, its aim is to know the first-rate in any subject that we study, with a view of achieving it as nearly as our powers allow. If we could fix this firmly in our minds, we should not stumble through a variety of lessons, lectures, and books like a drunk man, only partially aware where we are or what we are doing. We should cease to think that we go to school or college to pass examinations or to secure degrees or diplomas or to satisfy our teachers, though these may be and are incidental and limited objectives. We should have brought order into our education by realising its true aim and we should have deepened in our minds through practice the sense that a worthy purpose in life is the desire for excellence, the pursuit of the best, or the first-rate.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2010
- Write a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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One day the other limbs of the body fell out with the belly. They said that each of them worked but the belly alone did nothing and lived on the fruit of their labour. They had their heads together and the hand said, ” From today I stop carrying food “. The leg said, ” I will no longer walk to get the food “. The mouth said, ” I won’t chew food to feed the idle belly “.
All the member struck work in order to teach the belly a good lesson. The belly was helpless and it kept silent. Every day, all the limbs began to grow thinner and weaker. The belly then said, “My friends, I worked for you all, but you did not feel it. When I stop you have to suffer.” The other members understood their mistake. They lost no time to become friendly with the belly as before. Again each of them began to work for the good of all, and soon they got back their usual health and happiness.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2009
- Give a precis within about 80 words and add a suitable title to it.
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The increasing ecological disturbances in the Himalayan region have forced veteran environmentalist —Mr. Sundarlal Bhaugana to rise up for the cause once again. Upset by the sorry state of affairs in the Himalayan region, Mr. Bahugana met President Pratibha Patil and the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and asked them to save the Himalayan region by formulating a comprehensive development policy. Bahugana said the Himalayan region is paying the price of unplanned development that is taking place all around which has aided to the woes of the people living in the area.
Once the hero of the Chipko Movement and a pioneer in opposing the construction of the Tehri Dam, Bahugana is concerned over the situation in the region and has agreed to lead the mission to save the Himalayas. “It is not alone an issue which is related to ecology and life of the people of Himalayan region but it is the question of the safety of the entire nation.” Mr. Bahugana said, adding that it would not be wise to put the mighty Himalayas at stake since they are guarding our national borders. ” the Govt. should take steps to work for the conservation of the Himalayas, rivers, forests and wildlife”, added Bahugana.
