Write an essay on: Digital economy : Opportunities and challenges
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Central Armed Police Forces (ACs) Examination 2024 — General Studies, Essay & Comprehension (Previous Year Paper)
Held in 2024
36 questions120 minutes
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Essay (6 questions)
Arguments (2 questions)
Reports (2 questions)
Précis Writing (1 questions)
Attempt a précis of the given passage in one-third of its length: Immigrants are people who arrive under an immigration policy which gives them the right to become citizens after a relatively short period of time—say, three to five years—subject only to minimal conditions (e.g., learning the official language, and knowing something about the country's history and political institutions). This has been the traditional policy governing immigration in the three major 'countries of immigration'—namely, United States, Canada and Australia. Historically, immigrant groups have responded very differently to majority nation-building from national minorities. Unlike national minorities, the option of engaging in competing nation-building has been neither desirable nor feasible for immigrant groups in Western democracies. They are typically too small and territorially dispersed to hope to recreate their original societal culture from scratch in a new country. Instead, they have traditionally accepted the expectation that they will integrate into the larger societal culture. Indeed, few immigrant groups have objected to the requirement that they must learn an official language as a condition of citizenship, or that their children must learn the official language in school. They have accepted the assumption that their life-chances, and even more the life-chances of their children, will be bound up with participation in mainstream institutions operating in the majority language. Western democracies now have over 200 years of experience concerning how such groups integrate, and there is little evidence that legal immigrants with the right to become citizens pose any sort of threat to the unity or stability of a liberal democracy. There are few (if any) examples of immigrant groups mobilizing behind secessionist movements, or nationalist political parties, or supporting revolutionary movements to overthrow elected governments. Instead, they integrate into the exi...
Reading Comprehension (5 questions)
Based on the passage provided: How did the metaphysical view of the new science become official?
Based on the passage provided: What were the kinds of institutions that helped the reconceptualization of nature?
Grammar and Vocabulary (20 questions)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He told me that he had not gone there. (Change into direct speech)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He had not read the book, he had not seen it either. (Rewrite using 'neither', 'nor')
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He ______ (do) it for the last two days. (Use the correct form of the verb)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: His brother is more intelligent. (Change into the negative without changing the meaning)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He is sitting ______ the shade of a tree. (Insert the correct preposition)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He is very strong. He can defeat his enemies. (Combine the two sentences using 'enough')
Rewrite the sentence as directed: The cat jumped ______ the fence. (Fill in the blank using the correct preposition)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: He gave a modest answer to the question. (Rewrite the sentence changing the adjective into an adverb)
Rewrite the sentence as directed: It is difficult to get used to (eat) with chopsticks. (Use the correct form of the verb in the brackets)
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