Question
Extreme focus on syllabus and studying for tests has become such a dominant concern of Indian students that they close their minds to anything _____ to the requirements of the exam.
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- B
- From
- Official GATE 2015 answer key
Solution
Identify the word that best fits the sentence context describing information that is irrelevant or external to the exam syllabus.
The sentence states that students have an extreme focus only on the exam syllabus and study materials for tests, so much so that they close their minds to anything not part of that syllabus.
Word definitions:
extraneous: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with; originating or coming from outside.related: connected, which directly contradicts the intended meaning.outside: requires a preposition like 'of' (i.e., 'outside of') to function correctly here.useful: contradicts the tone of the sentence.
Therefore, extraneous is the most precise and grammatically appropriate term. This matches option B.
B
Selecting 'outside', which is grammatically incomplete in this syntactic frame without 'of'.
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2015 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) Session 3
- Question
- 3 of 65, printed as GA Q.3
- Section
- General Aptitude
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