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SSC CGL 2024 PYQ — Question 1

SSC CGL - 17 Sep 2024 - Shift 1 • English • Q1

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In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

I have a recurring dream. Actually, I have a few: one is about dismembering a body , I’d rather not get into it, but the (1) ________ pertinent one is about college. It’s the end of the semester, and I suddenly (2) ________ that there is a class I forgot to attend, ever, and now I have to sit for the final exam. I wake up panicked, my GPA in peril. How could I have done this? Why do I so (3) ________ dissatisfy myself? Then I remember I haven’t been in college in more than a decade. Someone with (4) ________ knowledge of my academic career might point out that this nightmare scenario is not that far removed from my actual collegiate experience, and that at certain times in my life, it did not take the magic of slumber to find me completely unprepared for a final. And, well, (5) ________ of what may or may not be true of my personal scholastic rigour, I suspect the schoolstress dream is quite a common one.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. regardless.

The blank is filled with "regardless" because the sentence is making a contrast between what may or may not be true about the speaker's personal academic history and a broader observation about the commonality of school-related stress dreams.

The phrase "And, well, regardless of what may or may not be true of my personal scholastic rigour" means that whether or not the speaker was actually unprepared in college, the key point is that school-related stress dreams are common.