IPMAT Rohtak 2019 (VA) PYQs

S1 : A noise started above their heads.
P: But people did not take it seriously.
Q : That was to show everyone that there was something wrong
R : It was a dangerous thing to do.
S : For, within minutes the shipbegan to sink.
S6: Nearly 200 lives were lost.

S1: I had halted on the road.
P: As soon as I saw the elephant I knew I should not shoot him.
Q : It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant.
R : I knew that his 'must' was already passing off.
S : The elephant was standing 8 yards from the road.
S6: I decided to watch him for a while and then go home.

"Because"

(I) It is ironic, not tragic, that minorities in our country have come to be identified with religion and not with community or profession.

(II) The establishment of many such organizations are testimony to the growing antagonism to secularism.

(III) Secularism today is being taken as a threat to religious identities, to the existence of religious diversities, though secularism was never conceived as such.

(IV) This is the reason that secularism today has come to mean as preservation of religious minorities in their traditional modes.