Read the following passage and answer the following questions. Some words are highlighted to help you answer some of the questions.
In terms of setting goals in your organization, if you know where you want your organization to go, you’ll be in a strong position to know whether or not you’ve arrived at that goal. Goal setting is an important tool not only for clarifying direction but also for assessing organizational progress. Set clear goals, as those enable you to be more effective toward guiding your performance and _____________ your results. Useful goals should be challenging and achievable. Setting a sales target that you’ll almost certainly reach may make you and your coworkers feel good about yourselves, but it won’t spur you to work harder and achieve your potential. Setting a sales target that is nearly impossible to reach won’t make your staff work harder, because they’ll know the outcome will inevitably fall short. To be truly useful, goals should also be clear and – whenever possible – quantifiable.
It is more effective to say that you want your company to expand into two new markets during the next two years than to say that you want it to grow considerably. The former provides clear criteria that drive you to achieve, and indicators that tell you when you’ve succeeded. The latter is so vague that you won’t really know what you’re working toward or if you’ve achieved it.
To make your goal-setting meaningful and important, the members of your staff must have a clear idea of what they’re working toward, and they must have the tools and resources to achieve the goals you’ve created. Communicate your goals clearly in meetings and in memos. Be available to answer questions, give feedback and offer support. Celebrate successes and reflect when your efforts fall short.
Coordinate efforts among team members to work in a shared direction with the objective of achieving the goals you’ve set. Create a series of goals to be achieved over time, such as opening one store a year for five years. Align shortterm goals, such as improving quarterly cash flow with longer term goals, such as opening new stores.
In some ways, the process of setting and working toward goals is even more important than whether or not you actually achieve them. Circumstances unfold over time, such as changes in market conditions or unforeseen opportunities that make previously set goals obsolete. Failure to reach a goal doesn’t necessarily mean that your work has been unsuccessful. If your goals turn out to be unrealistic, take a step back and set new goals that will guide your plans and processes in a more relevant direction.
Which of the following phrase can be concluded from the sentence highlighted in the passage?
Which of the following is similar in meaning to the word ’REFLECT’ as used in the passage?
Which of the following characteristics of a good goal is/are mentioned in the passage?
(i) Demanding
(ii) Realistic
(iii) Precise
Which of the following statement(s) is/are true in context of the given passage?
Which of the following is similar in meaning to the word ’UNFOLD’ as used in the passage?
Which of the following could be the appropriate filler for the blank given in the passage?
As per the passage, which of the following highlight the importance of details while setting goal?
As per the passage, which of the following are the prerequisite for the team members to achieve the desired goal?
(i) Skills
(ii) Tools
(iii) Clear objectives
Read each sentence to find out if there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e).
He moved up the (1)/corporate ladder in (2)/ the early days of his career and (3)/ become president in 1982. (4)
These sales (1)/ led us to think that (2)/ there is not much of a market (3)/ for this kind of product (4)
Delhi could get its first (1)/ stretch of metrolite, a cheaper, (2)/ smaller and slow urban rail (3)/ transit system compared to metro rail (4)
The chargesheet has (1)/ been filed before (2)/a Lucknow court, against all (3)/ those named in the FIR (4)
Both leaders agreed to work together (1)/ to ensure that “radicalisation and terrorism” did not (2)/ affect the fabric of the “multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and (3)/ multi-religious societies” of there countries (4)
For each question is given a sentence or a group of sentences with four highlighted words. Among the four highlighted words, two words needs to be interchanged to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. Choose the option which mentions the correct interchange
India’s hopes for retaining (A) the right to implement data negotiators (B) laws remain alive as Indian localisation (C) declined to agree to the e-commerce chapter (D) of RCEP agreement
The risk come (A) is rising not because the tanker per se contains enough oil to squeeze (B) the market, but the risk that the incident (C) will be retaliated or more attacks would premium (D)
In the following questions, each sentence consists of a blank that can be filled with any of the given word (s) to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Choose the most appropriate alternative reflecting the word (s) that fills the blank. If all the given words can fill the blank correctly choose option (e) i.e., “All of these” as your answer choice.
The Jammu and Kashmir government splashed fullpage advertisements in local newspapers to _________ people from taking part in the on-going shutdown.
(A) Discourage
(B) Dissuade
(C) Prevented
Nearly 500 terrorists are waiting in various training camps along the Line of Control, looking for ___________ to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir
(A) Opportunities
(B) Methods
(C) Ways
District Magistrate Naveen Kumar confirmed death of one person and wounds received by three others in the latest ____________.
(A) Violence
(B) Scenario
(C) Offer
The Delhi High Court on Friday permitted Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. to ___________ its plea to restrain BJP leader
(A) Amplifying
(B) Withdraw
(C) Forecast
Politics is a field where you can make a big _____________ contribution, wherever in the world you may be.
(A) Significantly
(B) Impactful
(C) Excite
Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c), (d) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as required, mark (e) as the answer.
The cemetery where the four bodies was exhume stands testimony to the tragedy.
Both the magistrate and the station-house officer has arrived on a conclusion at a mere glance of the complaint.
Jammu and Kashmir was emptied of its tourists and the Amarnath pilgrims at the peak of the season on the pretext of terror threats.
The government’s plan to rise a new class of local leaders through Block Development Council elections in Jammu and Kashmir is very impressive.
The decision to prosecute the advocate for filing false complaints are an encouraging sign that his run may not last.
In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. The two words ’growth’ and ’development’ were often used (76) in economic discussion. As soon as ’development economics’ emerged as a distinct field of study after the World War II, it ’had the appearance of being a child of growth economics’ and, in fact, this child did not differ from what could be expected from a genuine ’son of growth economics’. But, technically speaking, they are not the same.
To a layman, these two terms appear to be (77). However, in the 1950s and 1960s, economists drew a line of demarcation between economic growth and economic development. True enough, the concept of economic development is broader than economic growth. Development is taken to mean ’growth plus change’, whereas economic growth means growth only quantitative expansion of an economy. Economic growth is, thus, a quantitative concept, while economic development is a (78) concept. C. P. Kindleberger says that growth involves focusing on height or weight while development focuses on the change in functional capacity.
Economic growth is defined in positive terms. It is measured by the sustained increase in real, national or per capita income of a nation over time. Economic growth is usually measured in terms of an increase in real GNP or GDP over time or an increase in income per head over time. Growth is (79) as it enables a society to consume more goods and services.
That is why growth is considered to be the basis of advancing real living standards or human welfare. At the same time, it is also true that growth does not necessarily lead to an increase in human welfare. Economic development is more (80) than economic growth.
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