Practicing Success
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions: In order to identify potential for intellectual and educational progress, the literacy rate of a country covers the level of education and skills acquired by a country's inhabitants. Literacy is an important indicator of a country's economic progress and the standard of living - it shows how many people have access to education. However, the standards to measure literacy cannot be universally applied. Measures to identify and define illiterate inhabitants vary from country to country: In some, illiteracy is equated with no schooling at all.
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Match List I with List II
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: (1) (A) - (IV), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (I) (2) (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV) (3) (A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I) (4) (A) - (III), (B) - (II), (C) - (I), (D) - (IV) |
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The literacy rate of a country covers the level of education and skills acquired by a country's inhabitants. Measures to identify and define illiterate inhabitants vary from country to country: In some, illiteracy is equated with no schooling at all. To catch up, India now has to offer more educational programs to its rural population, not only on how to read and write, but also on traditional gender roles.
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