Question
Fill in blank 95 with the most appropriate
word. In the following passage, certain words have been left out. From the options given, choose the correct word that could fill in these blank to make the passage complete. As educational institutions began reopening in full _____________ (94) after the COVID-19 onslaught, there was news of a Common University Entrance Test. Unfortunately, measurable indexes for elimination and selection are becoming increasingly dependent on precision and objectivity, which is ____________ (95) worrisome for the social sciences. It is not that there is a ___________ (96) of aptitude tests around the country to sustain the rat race of ‘competition success’. It is not that the pathetic and obsessive glorification of ‘toppers’ needs a top up. Still, our education policymakers often forget that the __________ (97) of a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ is not an all-mighty sacrosanct truth. Discourses in the social sciences are often _____________ (98) in between — in the much celebrated grey and ambiguous areas that are, literally and metaphorically, the liminal zones between ‘true’ and ‘false’. While information such as dates, facts or events can be right or wrong, the role of a higher educational institution is not to list or ___________ (99) information, or to train students to do so. Textbooks, Google and an ___________ (100) number of education-apps do that anyway.Solution
Here, the correct word that can be used is ‘immensely’. It means ‘extremely’. Other words are contextually inappropriate.
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