UPPSC PCS - 2015

Most students of this class are intelligent select the alternative below that follows from the above statements.

Year Asked: 2015

A
There is no student who is not intelligent
B
There are some students who are less intelligent/
C
All students are intelligent.
D
Some of the students are intelligent.

Correct Answer

D. Some of the students are intelligent.

Detailed Explanation

Read this as a logical inference, not as a fact about real students. "Most students of this class are intelligent" means more than half are intelligent, and that necessarily means at least some are. So D follows directly.

  • A is wrong: "Most" does not say that none are unintelligent. It leaves room for a minority who are not intelligent, so A goes beyond the statement.
  • B is wrong: The statement says nothing comparative about the remaining students. Calling them "less intelligent" adds a claim that is not given.
  • C is wrong: This is the same overreach as A. "Most" is not "all".
  • D is correct: It is the weakest claim the statement guarantees, and it is the only option that must be true if the premise is true.

Core concept: quantifiers in statement-and-conclusion reasoning. "Most" implies "some" but never "all". The same discipline helps in Mains argument analysis, where you must separate what the evidence supports from what it merely suggests.

Trap: Aspirants pick A or C by reading "most" as "almost all", which is a practical reading rather than the logical one.

This question appeared in UPPCS 2015 GS Paper 2.

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