CBSE Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2022 Set 02 Solved

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SECTION-A

[Reading, Unseen Passages and Note Making]

1 Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow:-

1. Education is the modern India’s greatest leveller and its redemption. It is the tide that lifts every boat. We are all prisoners of birth, but education has the power to snap the meanest bond of economic and social enslavement. It is the route out of the caste ghetto, the path out of the slum, the road to the high table. A degree in the engineering or medicine gives the child of a mill hand as much opportunity as any son or daughter of privilege.

2. At home and at work, chances are that your domestic help, driver, launderer, liftman, watchman and peon are doing whatever it takes to send their children to an ’English – medium’ school , buy them a second-hand computer, pay for their tuition, get them trained in IT. They dream of empowering their child with the kind of ambition they never dared have. And when the child excels in a board exam, gets into big college or lands a good job, all those years of hardship and uncertainty melt away. In that defining moment there is a reinforcement of faith in the future – that it is possible to break the cycle of inequality by honourable means.

3. It is a well-worn cliche’ that ours is a country of glaring contradictions. Yes, we have one of the biggest education systems in the world – 1.2 million schools, 6.3 millions teachers and 290 million students, which in itself is more than the population of every country in the world except China, India and the US. And yes , literacy has grown from 28% in 1961 to 68% today.But the other end of the scale is crumbling. We still have over 287 million illiterate people( from the age of five)- the largest in any country, and larger than the population of Indians ( five and above) at the time of Independence.

4. If India is today considered an emerging super power and if the stereotype has shifted from the snake-charmer to IT whiz, some of the credit must go to our education system, to our IITs

and IIMs, and to grassroots initiatives like the midday meal scheme and the Navodaya Vidyalayas. This system has produced one of the world’s largest pools of science and tech graduates and created a robust middle class. And with well-educated Indians in influential positions in the developed world, notably the US, India has a voice that commands respect and attention on the global stage.

5.And yet, the many successes cannot hide the system’s sprawling underbelly.

- Millions of underprivileged youth have no access whatsoever to any form of schooling of the 460 million between 6 and 24 years, 170 million are not in the education system.

- The drop- out rate is depressing: a staggering 90% don’t make it to college.

- There are thousands of schools and colleges, both state- run and private, that provide no real education, and we don’t need empirical proof to beat this out. There is enough and more anecdotal evidence.

- There’s a massive deficit of teachers. And of the 4.7 million-odd who teach between classes 1and 8, almost half have not studied beyond senior secondary.

- Infrastructure is dismal: almost a third of primary and middle schools don’t have pucca buildings, 87% have no computers.

6. Ironically, our greatest source of strength is threatening to become our biggest weakness. Our education is choking. Strategically, we are in danger of losing our global competitive advantage. Entrepreneurs have found that education is a great new business, and there’s nothing wrong with that so long as there is a genuine intent to provide quality education. But private education comes at a price, and the question is, can it reach children in slums and villages? If it can, can they afford it? The answer quite simply is no. As aspirations rise and disparities widen, and as the need for equity assumes even greater urgency, there is only one solution: to redeem the classroom.

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