{"id":22688,"date":"2026-06-21T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-beside-the-point\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:20:30","slug":"ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-beside-the-point","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/ssc-practice-on-the-idiom-beside-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Practice on the Idiom Beside the point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How should we understand <strong>Beside the point<\/strong> in a sentence?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>Force someone to obey or submit<\/li>\n<li>Scarce and therefore valuable<\/li>\n<li>By means of hard effort or a particular method<\/li>\n<li>Not relevant to the matter being discussed<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3209,3212],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1895],"class_list":["post-22688","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-decision-making","topic-exam-preparation","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Beside the point<\/strong> means <strong>not relevant to the matter being discussed<\/strong>. This answer is correct because the expression has a fixed figurative meaning in English. In an SSC idiom question, students should match the whole phrase with its accepted meaning rather than translate each word separately.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Classroom example:<\/strong> <em>Beside the point<\/em> can refer to a situation involving not relevant to the matter being discussed.<\/li><li><strong>Story example:<\/strong> A writer may use <em>Beside the point<\/em> when describing a situation involving not relevant to the matter being discussed.<\/li><li><strong>Exam example:<\/strong> When a sentence contains <em>Beside the point<\/em>, choose the meaning \u201cnot relevant to the matter being discussed.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Force someone to obey or submit"},{"right":"no","answer":"Scarce and therefore valuable"},{"right":"no","answer":"By means of hard effort or a particular method"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Not relevant to the matter being discussed"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3209,"title":"Decision Making","slug":"decision-making"},{"id":3212,"title":"Exam Preparation","slug":"exam-preparation"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22688"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22688"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}