NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q25: Mr. Kumar works as a bursar in the sports

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q25?

B. Correct — B, accountant. A bursar is the officer who looks after an institution's money — its fees, funds and accounts — so 'accountant' is the option naming the same work. The sentence places Mr. Kumar in a sports academy, an institution of just the kind that keeps a bursar.

NDA (II) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 25 of 146

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Mr. Kumar works as a bursar in the sports academy.

(a)secretary
(b)accountant
(c)coach
(d)trainer

Answer

Why

Correct — B, accountant. A bursar is the officer who looks after an institution's money — its fees, funds and accounts — so 'accountant' is the option naming the same work. The sentence places Mr. Kumar in a sports academy, an institution of just the kind that keeps a bursar.

Why the others are wrong

(a)secretary — A secretary handles correspondence, minutes and records, while the bursar's defining charge is the institution's money.
(c)coach — A coach trains a team or a player and has no financial role.
(d)trainer — A trainer conditions athletes physically, which again has nothing to do with the accounts.

Concept

'Bursar' comes from the Latin bursa, a purse — the root behind 'bursary', 'disburse' and 'reimburse'. The bursar is the treasurer of a school, college or similar institution.

Two options here, 'coach' and 'trainer', are pulled in by the words 'sports academy' rather than by the word being tested, and that baiting from the setting is a standing design in these items. 'Secretary' is the closer miss, since a bursar is indeed an administrative officer; the deciding point is that a bursar's charge is specifically money.

Key facts

'Bursary' — a grant of money paid to a student — shares the purse root with 'bursar'.
'Disburse' means to pay out money and comes from the same root.

Study next

Names of institutional offices: bursar, registrar, provost, wardenThe purse root: bursary, disburse, reimburseSetting words used as bait in synonym itemsJob-title vocabulary in English papers

Common traps

Letting 'sports academy' pull you towards 'coach' or 'trainer'.
Treating 'secretary' as a catch-all for any administrative post.

Asked as a synonym item where the surrounding setting offers two plausible-sounding but irrelevant options.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the meaning of 'bursary'. The college awarded her a bursary for the final year.
- (a)a prize cup
- (b)a grant of money
- (c)a certificate of merit
- (d)a period of leave
Answer(b) a grant of money — a bursary is financial assistance given to a student.
practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word nearest in meaning to 'disburse'. The trust will disburse the scholarship amount in June.
- (a)withhold
- (b)pay out
- (c)calculate
- (d)borrow
Answer(b) pay out — to disburse is to pay money out of a fund.