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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - II

In many of our schools, children who 'complete' primary school are not fully functional in the language that serves as the medium of their education. One would expect that a class VI student, almost twelve years old with five years, of schooling behind him, would be able to read, understand and write the language. Unfortunately, surveys conducted among rural school children in the state reveal that this is not the case. A majority of the school population was found to be at the frustration -level in understanding the texts. The surveys also reveal the enormous heterogeneity of the linguistic and cultural background of the children, contrary to the belief that they all come from Hindi-speaking backgrounds.

Before the surveys we had the belief that

A) all the children were good students

B) the schools taught Hindi very efficiently

C) all the children spoke Hindi at home

D) Hindi was a compulsory subject