Statement Evaluation is a Aptitude concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 10 past MPSC questions across 5 exam years between 2013 and 2025. Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.
Logical deductionCareful readingBasic English/Marathi comprehensionVocabularyCritical ReadingLogical analysisMarathi reading skillsMarathi vocabularyCritical reading skillsSkimming and scanning skillsBasic data reading skillsEnglish comprehension
Real questions that test this
माझा मूळ पूर्वपक्ष असा नाही की भारतीय मनाला आकार देण्याचा प्रश्न नसून, भारतीय भूमिकेला आकार देण्याची गरज आहे. आपल्याला मन तसेच मनोभूमिका या दोन्हीच्या प्रश्नांकडे पाहायला सुरुवात केली पाहिजे. आपल्याला फक्त हुशार मने, अधिक बुद्धिवान मने, अधिक निरीक्षणक्षम मने, अधिक विश्लेषक मने, चांगली मने जी अधिक शहाणे विश्लेषण करतील, अशी मने कशी मिळतील एवढेच पाहून चालणार नाही तर त्या बरोबरीने आपल्याला एकविसाव्या शतकातील भारत आकाराला आणणे शक्य करणाऱ्या, सकारात्मक, रचनात्मक, भविष्याकडे पाहणाऱ्या, परस्परांना प्रेरक ठरणाऱ्या मनोभूमिकाही कशा घडवायच्या हे पाहिले पाहिजे.
Question number 13 and 14 :
Many people say that 21st century is a century of knowledge, but the people who think more deeply about it say, it is going to be a century of mind. If this is the case then India has demographic advantage. India has 55% of its population less than 25 years old. This means that there are 6000 lakh odd minds to shape destiny of India.
But there is a fundamental difference between the mind and the mindset. Mind represents intellect, mind allows you to make smart observations, smart analysis, smart synthesis etc. but it is the mindset which determines your attitude and your approach to life. In India, there is this huge battle between the Indian mind and Indian mindset. The Indian mind is taking us into 21st century and there is no doubt about it, but it is the Indian mindset which is drawing us back into 14th, 15th, 16th century.
Centuries ago Indian mind introduced the concept of global village with a slogan, "Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam" (Entire world is a family). We say that we are one family but are we practising what we say ? We know that when two Japanese come together, how many Japanese they make ? They form a great team and become eleven. Someone in a lighter vein has said that when two Indians come together, they become zero as they neutralize each other. They do not make a team and this is the Indian mindset.
My basic premise is not that shaping of Indian minds is not required and only changing of the Indian mindset should be attempted. We should start taking up both. We should not only be contented with clever minds, more intelligent minds, more observant minds, more analytical minds, better minds synthesizing in a more clever way, but also mindsets that are positive, constructive, forward looking, mutually reinforcing, - mindsets that will make it possible for us to shape 21st century India.
पुढील कोणते विधान अयोग्य नाही.
Which of the following statements is not incorrect ?
a)भारतातील सुमारे 55% लोकांची मनोभूमिका अर्वाचीन आहे. / About 55% of the Indians have modern mindset.
b)भारतातील सुमारे 45% लोकांची मने बुरसटलेली आहेत. / About 45% of the Indians have old traditional mind.
c)भारतात वयस्कर लोक बहुसंख्य नाहीत. / The elderly people are not in majority in India.✓ Correct
d)भारतातील सुमारे 55% लोक हुशार विश्लेषणे करतात. / About 55% of the Indians make intelligent analysis.
The question asks for the statement that is 'not incorrect' (meaning correct). Option 3 correctly reflects demographic or mindset findings stated in the text.
सध्या बाजारात जननिक अभियांत्रिकीची अनेक उत्पादने आढळून येतात. उदा. इंटरफेरॉन, मानवाचे वृद्धीसंप्रेरक आणि मानवीय इन्स्युलिन. सन 1982 साली पुन:संयोजी जिवाणूने बनविलेले मानवीय इन्स्युलिन बाजारात विक्रीस आले. पूर्वी ही सर्व प्रथिने प्राण्यांच्या पेशीपासून शुद्ध केली जात होती. परंतु मानवावरील ही स्वरूपे त्यावेळी फार कमी प्रमाणात उपलब्ध होती.
1982 च्या पूर्वी मधुमेहात उपयोगात येणारी सर्व इन्स्युलिन केवळ गुरांच्या बोव्हीन व डुकरांच्या स्वादुपिंडापासून शुद्ध केली जात होती. ही सर्व इन्स्युलिन उत्पादके मांस कारखान्यात सह-उत्पादन म्हणून तयार व्हावयाची. इन्स्युलिनचा पुरवठा हा मांस कारखान्यातील पुरवठा व गरजेवर अवलंबून होता. पुन:संयोजी इ.कोलाय पेशीने व्यापारी तत्त्वावर तयार केलेल्या मानवीय इन्स्युलिनमुळे ते तयार करण्यात भविष्यात कमतरता राहण्याबाबत चिंता राहिलेली नाही.
याशिवाय ज्यांना मधुमेह झाला आहे व ज्यांना बोव्हीन अथवा पोर्सीनचे वावडे आहे त्यांच्याकरिता मानवीय इन्स्युलिन अत्यंत उपयुक्त ठरेल.
पुन:संयोजी डी.एन्.ए.चे तंत्र जीन थेरपीमध्ये महत्त्वाची भूमिका बजावते ज्यात ते प्रत्यक्षात सहभागी होऊन जीन साहित्यात फेरफार देखील करते.
There are several products of genetic engineering now available in the market viz. interferon, human growth hormone and human insulin. In 1982, human insulin produced by recombinant bacteria was released for sale in the market. All of these proteins were previously purified from animal tissues. But human forms were available only in very minute quantities.
Before 1982, all insulins which were utilized for diabetics were purified only from bovine of cattle and Porcine of pigs pancreas. These insulins were made available as by-products of meat industry. The insulin supply was, thus a function of supply and demand in the meat market. The commercial production of human insulin in recombinant E. Coli cells eliminated concerns regarding possible shortage of insulin in the future. In addition, this human insulin, was of particular importance to some diabetics who were allergic to bovine and/or porcine insulin.
Recombinant DNA techniques play an essential role in gene therapy which involves the direct manipulation of genetic material.
पुढील दोन विधानांपैकी कोणते योग्य आहे ?
Which of the following two statements is correct ?
(a)मांस कारखान्यातून प्राप्त होणारे इन्स्युलिन कधीही कमी पडणे शक्य नव्हते. / Insulin obtained as a product of meat industry could not have been in short supply.
(b)इ.कोलाय पेशींपासून मिळणारे मानवीय इन्स्युलिन चे महत्व केवळ विशिष्ट प्रकारच्या डायबेटिकस् करता आहे. / Human insulin from recombinant E.Coli cells is important only because it is useful for some particular diabetics.
1)केवळ (a) / Only (a)
2)केवळ (b) / Only (b)
3)(a) व (b) दोन्ही / (a) and (b) both
4)(a) व (b) दोन्हीही नाही / Neither (a) nor (b)✓ Correct
Statement (a) is wrong because animal-sourced insulin could indeed face shortages based on livestock availability. Statement (b) is wrong because recombinant insulin is useful for various therapeutic applications beyond just some particular diabetics.
वरील उताऱ्यानुसार खालीलपैकी कोणते एक वाक्य चुकीचे आहे ?
1)भारतातील अनेक वैद्यक इंग्लंड, अमेरीकेत जातात. / Most of the Indian doctors are going to England and America.
2)भारतातील गरीब खेडूतांना वैद्यकीय सेवेपासून वंचीत रहावे लागते. / Poor villagers in India are deprived of efficient medical service.
3)जपानमधील वैद्यक सेवेसाठी भारतात येतात. / Japanese doctors are coming in India for services.✓ Correct
4)जर इंग्लंडमधील भारतीय वैद्यक परत आले तर त्यांची वैद्यकीय सेवा कोलमडून पडेल. / If Indian doctors come back to India from England, the medical services of them might collapse.
The passage says many Indian doctors go to England and America, that poor villagers in India go without good medical care, and that the medical services there would suffer if those doctors came back. It never says Japanese doctors come to India, so statement 3 is the incorrect one.
खाली दिलेल्या दोन विधानांपैकी कोणते अयोग्य आहे/आहेत ?
(a)सामाजिक हित म्हणजेच वैयक्तिक हित.
(b)ज्याची इतर री ओढतात तो बुद्धीवादी.
1)फक्त अ
2)फक्त ब
3)दोनों अ आणि ब✓ Correct
4)दोनों नाहीत
Both statements are considered incorrect based on critical philosophical passages: social interest and individual interest can sometimes conflict, and a true intellectual is not merely someone whose 'strings are pulled by others' (conformist). Thus both are incorrect (अयोग्य).
पुढील दोन विधानांपैकी कोणते योग्य आहे ?
(a)जगात अनुकरण करणारे न करणाऱ्यापेक्षा अधिक.
(b)भारतीय संस्कृती म्हणजेच वेद घोकणे, पूर्वांची स्तुतिसुमने गाणे.
1)फक्त अ✓ Correct
2)फक्त ब
3)दोनों अ आणि ब
4)दोनों नाहीत
Statement 'a' is correct because in the world, followers/conformists (अनुकरण करणारे) always outnumber independent thinkers. Statement 'b' is incorrect because Indian culture is not just blindly reciting Vedas and praising ancestors.