Question

In the modern industrial age, the demand for 46 technical personnel is much more than in the feudal age because the demand for goods is much more owing to increase in population and other factors. Hence, the traditional feudal method of teaching a craft, in which only a handful of persons were taught, would no longer 47 for modern society.

Now, technical institutes or engineering colleges, where a large number of students are taught technical skills, have become 48. Obviously, all these students could not be sons of the teacher. This 49 the very basis of the caste system in which one had no option in choosing one's vocation and had to follow one's father's profession. The caste system, in which one's vocation is chosen by one's birth, is thus totally 50 in the modern age.

From the following select the appropriate word to replace number 48 in the above passage.

• A. Dispensable
• B. Perfunctory
• C. Inessential
• D. Necessary

Hint:

Think about why institutes exist now: the old method of one teacher training a few could not meet rising demand.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The sentence explains that institutes teaching large numbers of students "have become ___," following the point that not all students can be the teacher's own sons.

1. (a) Dispensable: This means not needed, which is the opposite of what the passage describes about institutes filling a growing gap.
2. (b) Perfunctory: This means done without real interest or care, which does not fit the serious role institutes play.
3. (c) Inessential: This also means not needed, contradicting the passage's point about rising demand for trained workers.
4. (e) Necessary: Since the old system of a teacher training only a few could not meet growing demand, institutes have become necessary.

Option (e), necessary, fits the passage's logic about institutes filling this widening gap.