The premise that the choice of major amounts to choosing a career path rests on the faulty notion that the major is important for its content, and that the acquisition of that content is valuable to employers. But information is fairly easy to acquire and what is acquired in 2015 will be obsolete by 2020. What employers want are basic but difficult-to-acquire skills. When they ask students about their majors, it is usually not because they want to assess the applicants’ mastery of the content, but rather because they want to know if the students can talk about what they learned. They care about a potential employee’s abilities: writing, researching, quantitative, and analytical skills.
The paragraph describes what is valuable to employers. From the lines “……….choosing a career path rests on the faulty notion that the major is important for its content, and that the acquisition of that content is valuable to employers”………….its obvious that major is not valuable to employers. As per the last lines of the Passage; “they care about a potential employee’s abilities: writing, researching, quantitative, and analytical skills”.
The option “A vocational approach to education eviscerates precisely the qualities that are most valuable about it: intell
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Normally, falling oil prices would boost global growth. This time, though, matters are less clear cut. The big economic question is whether lower prices reflect weak demand or have been caused by a surge in the supply of crude. If weak demand is the culprit, that is worrying: it suggests the oil price is a symptom of weakening growth. If the source of weakness is financial (debt overhangs and so on), then cheaper oil may not boost growth all that much: consumers may simply use the gains to pay down their debts. Indeed, in some countries, cheaper oil may even make matters worse by increasing the risk of deflation.
The paragraph discusses the case of weak demand leading to lower prices, especially where the source of weakness is financial. The penultimate line talks of cheaper oil increasing the risk of deflation. This is the correct option as it discusses the case of lower prices caused by surge in supply of oil, the second factor stated in the “big economic question” the paragraph talks of.
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The 16th century in Europe was a great century of change. The humanists and artists of the Renaissance would help characterize the age as one of individualism and self-creativity. Humanists such as Petrarch helped restore the dignity of mankind while men like Machiavelli injected humanism into politics. When all is said and done, the Renaissance helped to secularize European society.
The paragraph talks about ; “the 16th century in Europe was a great century of change”. It was characterized by humanism, individualism, self creativity , dignity of mankind and secularization of the European society” hence the option that talks about urbanization and the growth of universities is correct.
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As democratic nation states reorient themselves to being accountable to global financial markets, non-democratic bodies such as the World Trade Organization, and trade agreements such as General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Trade in Services Agreement, they will necessarily become less responsive to the aspirations of their own citizens. With overt repression not always the most felicitous or cost-effective policy option, it has become imperative to find ways and means to ideologically tame the economically excluded. This is critical because growing discontent could lead to political instability.
The paragraph talks about Democratic nations that hold themselves accountable to non-democratic bodies & become less responsive to their own citizens. They seek ways and means of ideologically taming the economically excluded, because growing discontent amongst this group can lead to political instability. Hence they focus on the minds and behavior of the poor.
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The real threat from ISIS is not territorial but ideological. Fighters are flocking to the fledgling caliphate because they are attracted to the notion that violence and bloodshed can create a space of totalitarian homogeneity. It’s not simply the attraction of a particular religious interpretation. ISIS offers a counter-narrative to nationalism and the emptiness of godless globalization. The society that the caliphate has created is multi-ethnic, transnational, and fully conversant in the latest technology.
The paragraph talks on the dangerous attraction of ISIS ideology, and what the basis of this is. “The notion of establishing a homogeneous autocracy through violence is the main attraction of ISIS, and this is not simply related to a particular religious interpretation. In fact, ISIS offers a counter narrative to transcend nationalism and the impersonal emptiness of godless globalization.” As per the last line “…………..has created is multi-ethnic, transnational, and fully conversant ……..” the option talks about the specific, historically grounded identity ISIS offers helps bind this society together.
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