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Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following myths does the author break in the passage ........

English Language (IBPS PO) Reading comprehension (P)

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Advice about the art of interview preparation and how to craft the perfect CV isn’t enough to put every student on a path to a career they want. About one in three graduates end up being “mismatched” to the jobs they find after leaving university, research by Universities UK suggests. These mismatched graduates face poorer prospects and lower earnings than their peers who embark on careers that are a better fit for the knowledge and skills they have acquired through three or four years of study. It suggests that traditional careers advice isn’t working. The problem isn’t necessarily that too many students are taking the wrong course. There is little evidence that graduates are studying the “wrong” subjects, according to the UUK research, since most are on courses that offer subject knowledge and employability skills that are very much in demand. Instead, students need better careers advice that will help them define their skills and attributes – and understand how these match different career options. Students also need help finding out which skills they’ll need to break into certain industries – particularly in sectors that aren’t good at diversifying their recruitment, or when they have no family or social network of contacts to call on for help and advice. Politicians complain of a skills gap, but graduates face an “experience gap” – with many employers preferring to recruit young people who have spent a couple of years in the workplace rather

than raw recruitments from university. To help graduates find the right jobs for them, lots of universities are experimenting with new ways to make their careers advice more accessible and meaningful.

At the University of Kent, students can use an online Careers Explorer service to match their skills to career options, and a work-study scheme that provides bursaries for work experience. Students at the University of Dundee can take employability modules in parallel with their academic work, including online and personal career planning sessions.

Which of the following myths does the author break in the passage?

The skills acquired by graduates is not equivalent to the degree they have achieved.

Instead of a wrong choice of an academic course, the problem lies in the lack of provision of a good career advice, which is well- matched with the skill and knowledge of a graduate.

The fact that the courses available at universities are not skill oriented, pushes the graduates to be caught up in wrong jobs.

The career advices being provided at the universities do not effectively analyse the potential of a graduate and provide them with good career option.

None of these.

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Explanation:

The third and the fourth paragraphs of the passage suggest that students are not opting for the wrong courses, but they have not been counselled appropriately to get the job that matches their knowledge and skills. Thus,option 2 is the correct answer.

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