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[2]. Passage: Examinations often teach students to fear mistakes, yet in most real learning a mistake is the first clear evidence of a gap. A student who writes a wrong answer and then traces why it went wrong learns more than a student who copies a correct answer without understanding it. Schools therefore need two different moments: a moment for practice where errors are examined openly, and a moment for assessment where performance is judged. When every practice task is also graded harshly, students hide errors, and teachers lose the very information that could help them teach. According to the passage, a mistake is valuable because it:

1.
Lowers marks permanently
2.
Shows the teacher is strict
3.
Reveals a gap that can then be traced and corrected
4.
Proves a student is careless
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 3 : Reveals a gap that can then be traced and corrected

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सही उत्तर Reveals a gap that can then be traced and corrected है।

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Mistakes are evidence of a gap, per passage.

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[2]. Passage: Examinations often teach students to fear mistakes, yet in most real learning a mistake is the first clear evidence of a gap. A student who writes a wrong answer and then traces why it went wrong learns more than a student who copies a correct answer without understanding it. Schools therefore need two different moments: a moment for practice where errors are examined openly, and a moment for assessment where performance is judged. When every practice task is also graded harshly, students hide errors, and teachers lose the very information that could help them teach. According to the passage, a mistake is valuable because it:

1.
Lowers marks permanently
2.
Shows the teacher is strict
3.
Reveals a gap that can then be traced and corrected
4.
Proves a student is careless

Correct Answer: Reveals a gap that can then be traced and corrected

Mistakes are evidence of a gap, per passage.

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