Question

Comprehension

Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

One wins after having failed time after time. The essence behind real winning is not giving up, no matter what badges and medals society is handing out. When it comes to your 'heroes' and those who define success and hard work for you, you see them the same way. These people are your real heroes because they display an impressive standard of consistent hard work, and through that hard work have achieved expertise in their fields. and that is why you love to fixate on and romanticise how many times they failed, lost and were rejected.

You are hugely understanding and forgiving of their failures and mistakes. You believe in them because you know they are not the type to give up. So, in your story, the traditional sense of winning applies. In the stories of those you admire, winning has everything to do with a never-give-up spirit, excelling in a skill, and doing so by hard work.

The only reason why you are still stuck with traditional winning is that you grew up seeing it and because society treats it as the most important thing. But you won't make it very far with the traditional sense of winning because it is short-sighted. It's focused only on an event, the results of an exam, a competition. It appeals to the need for instant gratification. Winning is not a single event. It is a continuous process. There are plenty of people scratching their heads, wondering, they used to be the top of their class and now they were nowhere. It is because of the reason that they were happy with those wins and lost the track of what happened after. 

1. Proficiency
2. Incompetence
3. Aptitude
4. Prowess

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Incompetence

The correct answer is "Incompetence.​​"

• The given passage clearly describes the "The real sense of winning".
• Let us see the meaning of all the words given in options.
  • Proficiency: a high degree of skill.
  • Incompetence: an inability to do something successfully; ineptitude.
  • Aptitude: a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level.
  • Prowess: skill or expertise in a particular activity or field.
  • Except 'incompetence', rest all of these are synonyms of 'expertise'.
• Let us refer to the first paragraph of the passage, "These people are your real heroes because they display an impressive standard of consistent hard work, and through that hard work have achieved expertise in their fields.​"

From the above lines, we can infer that according to the author, the correct opposite of 'expertise' is 'incompetence'.

• Examples of 'expertise':
  • I don't know that we have the expertise here to repair it at this time.
  • I am working on achieving expertise in mathematics so that I can become a teacher.