Question

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below. Following are the criteria required to be fulfilled to gain admission into any engineering college in Tamil Nadu.
i) The candidate should have secured at least 60% marks in HSC or 50% marks in CBSE.
ii) a) The candidate should have pass in HSC with academic subjects namely Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry put together with a minimum average percent are only eligible to apply. (or) b) A pass in any one of the HSC vocational subjects with any one of the Engineering related subjects namely Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry with a minimum average percent are also eligible to apply.
iii) The candidate should be a resident of Tamil Nadu i.e., the candidate who have passed XI and XII std. in Tamil Nadu.
iv) The candidate should have secured at least 60% marks in the entrance exam. A) At i) above, but the candidate has good sports record, the candidate is admitted under sports quota. B) At iii) above, but their parents or guardians have been serving in Tamil Nadu continuously for the past five years at the time of admissions.
They are also eligible to apply and the candidates are admitted under other state quota. In each question below details of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following course of action based on the information provided and the conditions and sub- conditions given above and mark the number of that course of action as your answer. You are not to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01.10.2017.
Give answer (a) If admission can be granted Give answer (b) If admission cannot be granted Give Answer (c) If the data are inadequate to take a decision. Give Answer (d) If the candidate is admitted under sports quota Give Answer (e) If the candidate is admitted under other state quota.
Chanakya was born and brought up in Andra Pradesh. He Secured 60% marks in CBSE with academic subjects. He secured 50% marks in entrance exam.

• A. a
• B. b
• C. c
• D. d

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

To determine if Chanakya can gain admission to an engineering college in Tamil Nadu, evaluate the criteria provided: 

• i) Chanakya secured 60% marks in CBSE, which satisfies criterion (i) as he has met the requirement of at least 50% marks.
• ii) Chanakya passed with academic subjects, meeting sub-criterion (ii)(a).
• iii) Chanakya was not a resident of Tamil Nadu, but we must explore exception B: If a candidate's parents or guardians have been serving in Tamil Nadu for the past five years, they can be admitted under other state quota. However, the current data does not provide information about his parents or guardians' residence or service. This leaves us without enough information to apply this exception.
• iv) Chanakya secured only 50% marks in the entrance exam, which does not meet the requirement of at least 60%. There is no information about his sports record that might allow for admission under the sports quota (exception A).

Based on this evaluation, the data we have is inadequate to determine admission.

Therefore, the answer is: c) If the data are inadequate to take a decision.