SSC Stenographer 2024 PYQ — Question 67

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

The education system is (1)_____ more and more frustrations among both students and teachers. And yet no one seems too clear about what can be done to make it more meaningful. (2)_______ reforms have been discussed at length but have come to nothing for one reason or another. The authorities are now peddling the idea of (3)______colleges as a means of toning up teaching standards. They argue that by allowing certain colleges to introduce their (4)_______courses, to hold seminars, and above all, to evolve their own method of assessing students, the students will get a far better deal. Indeed, they made out that such colleges will have a free (5)_______in nearly everything except granting degrees.