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Directions (1-6): A passage given below with blanks. A set of five words given in options. Find the inappropriate word for the blanks. 

The Union Education Ministry has been attempting to get States into a competitive mode in upgrading their school education system by ____ (1) ______progress with a Performance Grading Index (PGI) that assigns them a score. It can be argued that countries and State governments use school education as a transformative tool most effectively where the political ____ (2) ______is strong. The Centre’s effort with the PGI scoring system has been to try and nudge all States using a hall of fame approach. In the latest set of scores and grades for the pre­COVID­19 year, 2019­20, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Chandigarh, Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu have performed the best, although they still fall short of the 951­1,000 points slab, the highest possible. It should be heartening to 33 States and Union Territories that their PGI scores have improved over the previous year, and in the case of Andaman and Nicobar, Punjab and Arunachal Pradesh, by a noteworthy 20%. Several middling States continue to make _____ (3) ________progress some have improved merely by tweaking their data, while Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh actually_____(4)_______, although the PGI scheme is now three years old. The score is derived using databases on 70 parameters such as access, equity, governance processes, infrastructure and facilities, and learning outcomes that are mostly self-reported by the States but vetted by the Centre, with National Achievement Survey data also being _____ (5) _________. On some parameters, such as uneven learning outcomes between students from ____ (6) __________communities and others, bridging the gap earns a better score. 

1. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Obliviate 

 B. Acknowledge 

 C. Concede 

 D. Perceive 

 E. Recognising 

A

 2. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Pivotal 

 B. Trivial 

 C. Crucial 

 D. Assertive 

 E. Imperative 

B

 3. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Negligible 

 B. Disputable 

 C. Considerable 

 D. Meagre 

 E. Marginal 

C

 4. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Degenerated 

 B.Progressed

C. Crumbled 

 D. Progressed 

 E. Regressed 

B

 5. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Separated 

 B. Subsumed 

 C. Assimilated 

 D. Engulfed 

 E. Incorporated 

A

 6. Find the word which does not fit in the blank. 

 A. Abated 

 B. Opulent 

 C. Divested 

 D. Relieved 

 E. Deprived

B