NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q4: The __________ of the advancement made in agricultural

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q4?

A. Correct — A, 'extent'. 'Extent' names how far or how much something reaches, so 'the extent of the advancement' is the scale of the progress made, and a scale is what can sensibly be called remarkable. Nothing in the sentence is being measured in space; what is being measured is a degree of achievement, and 'extent' is the abstract measure English uses for that.

NDA (II) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 4 of 146

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The __________ of the advancement made in agricultural productivity in India has been remarkable.

(a)extent
(b)context
(c)distance
(d)syntax

Answer

Why

Correct — A, 'extent'. 'Extent' names how far or how much something reaches, so 'the extent of the advancement' is the scale of the progress made, and a scale is what can sensibly be called remarkable. Nothing in the sentence is being measured in space; what is being measured is a degree of achievement, and 'extent' is the abstract measure English uses for that.

Why the others are wrong

(b)context — A context is the background against which something happens, not a measure of how much progress was made.
(c)distance — 'Distance' measures physical separation between two points, and an advance in productivity has no such separation.
(d)syntax — Syntax is the arrangement of words in a sentence, a grammar term with no bearing on farm output.

Concept

'Extent' is the abstract measure of degree or scope; the other three name a setting, a physical gap and a property of grammar.

The subject of 'has been remarkable' has to be a quantity of some kind. Once the sentence is read to its end, only 'extent' supplies one. 'Distance' is the trap because it too measures something, just the wrong kind of thing.

Key facts

'Extent' answers the question 'how far' or 'how much' about something abstract.
'Context' names surrounding circumstances, which is why a remark can be quoted out of context.

Study next

Abstract nouns of degree such as extent, scope, magnitude and scalePhysical measurement words used figurativelyMatching the subject of a sentence to its complement

Common traps

Reaching for 'distance' because it also sounds like a measurement.
Choosing a word that fits the grammar of the blank without fitting 'remarkable'.

Asked as a fill-in-the-blank item — choose the word that completes the sentence.

Related PYQs

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Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The __________ of the damage was clear only after the flood water receded.
- (a)syntax
- (b)extent
- (c)context
- (d)distance
Answer(b) extent — 'extent' names how far or how much something reaches.
practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. A remark can change meaning entirely when it is quoted out of __________.
- (a)extent
- (b)distance
- (c)context
- (d)syntax
Answer(c) context — 'out of context' means cut off from the surrounding situation.