Statement: Many students were caught while using unfair means during the final examination by the special team of the university.
Which of the following can be the possible consequence of the facts stated in the above statement?
- The teacher responsible for invigilation in all such examination halls where the students were caught is to be suspended for their services.
- All those students who were caught while using unfair means are to be debarred from appearing in these examinations for a year.
- The college should be blacklisted by the university for holding final examinations at least for a year.
Important Questions on Cause and Effect
Cause: All the major rivers in the state have been flowing way over the danger level for the past few weeks.
Which of the following is/are possible effect(s) of the above cause?
I. Many villages situated near the riverbanks are submerged, forcing the residents to flee.
II. Government has decided to provide alternate shelter to all the affected villagers residing near the river banks.
III. The entire state has been put on high flood alert.
Cause: Government has recently decided to hike the procurement price of paddy for the rabi crops.
Which of the following will be possible effect of the above cause?
Effect: At least 20 school children were seriously injured while going for a school picnic during the weekend.
Which of the following can be a probable cause of the above effect?
Effect: Majority of the employees of the ailing organisation opted for voluntary retirement scheme and left the organization with all their retirement benefits within a fortnight of launching the scheme.
Which of the following can be a probable cause of the effect?
Cause: School authority has increased the tuition fee excessively from the current academic session.
Which of the following can be the possible effect of the cause mentioned above?
I. Parents of the students of this school will get their child admitted in other schools.
II. No new student will get admission in this academic session.
III. Parents of the students of this school will contract the school authority for the roll back of the increased fee.
In the question, two statements A and B are provided. These may have a cause and effect relationship or may have independent cause.
Statement A: A mobile phone, if kept on during an air flight, can actually disrupt the plane's electronic systems and eventually lead to a crash, a study has revealed. Older planes are most at risk to mobiles, laptops and i-pads.
Statement B: One case involved a Boeing 747 flying at a height of 4500 ft whose pilot disengaged by itself. When the fight attendants went through the cabin, they found four passengers using their cell phones. Once these were switched off, the flight carried on without any problem.
In each question, two statements A and B are provided. These may have a cause and effect relationship or may have an independent cause.
Statement A: India is ranked fifth most powerful country in the world, next to US, China, Russia and Japan, in the hierarchy of top 50 nations, identified on the basis of their GDP as per national security index.
Statement B: The assessment is based on defence capability, economic strength, effective population, technological capability and energy security of top 50 countries.
In each question, two statements A and B are provided. These may have a cause and effect relationship or may have an independent cause.
Statement A: Sri Lanka keeper Kumar Sangakara justified his decision to step down from the captaincy of the ODI and T20 teams by saying, 'I will be 37 by the next World Cup and I cannot be sure of my place in the team. It is better that Sri Lanka is now led by a player who will be at the peak of his career during that tournament.'
Statement B: Remarkably, unlike most skippers whose individual performance drops after assuming the leadership role, Sangakara has actually batted better as captain in all three formats of the game.
