In the following question, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The CBSE question paper leaks earlier this year are indicative of a deep-rooted and serious disease in our examination system. But all we do is to try and identify the culprits and think of strategies to prevent further leaks. We have observed the same knee-jerk reaction in other areas. A child gets molested in a school and the solutions offered are to install more CCTV cameras and to get rid of male teachers. Why do we not make an attempt to get to the root of the problem?

All said and done, our examination system is a disaster and our approach to educational reform has been somewhat unplanned. Education does not get the attention and the funding that it deserves. Most of our problems stem from the lack of education or from a faulty one. If we wish to prosper as a nation, we need to re-examine the current examination system. It is not enough to reform — we need to 'transform'.

In order to critique our examination system, we need to argue from the basic premise that the vast numbers of students who appear for the regional or national board examinations are individuals with varied strengths and weaknesses, and different ways of thinking and learning. Yet in order to perform in the mass-scale board exams at the end of Class 10 or Class 12 (which incidentally do not need any great feats of thinking), they have to fit themselves in the same mould and become copies of one another. The choice of different clusters of subjects doesn’t do much for individual creativity on account of the run-of-the-mill questions that are set. Indeed, if the 'usual' and 'expected' questions are not set, there would be large-scale protests and screaming headlines in the newspapers.