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Session Verbal Reasoning

Parajumbles I
Introduction to the topic:
CAT tests its applicants on their ability to put statements in their proper logical order. From an array of
statements given in an abrupt, jumbled sequence, a good candidate must be able to a scribe a comprehensible
order to them.
Apart from locating the Mandatory Pairs, solving parajumbles is an exercise in a streamlined, uninterrupted
process of thought. No wonder it tests a candidate's concentration and basic understanding of the things
around him. Let us learn more about them here.
Session Verbal Reasoning
The questions discussed in the session are given below along with their source.
Directions for questions 1 to 5: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Q1. A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully
the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each
must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
(a) ABCD (b) ADCB (c) DBCA (d) DBAC
(CAT 2000)
Q2. A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly
defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishmans question: Is this a private fight or can
anyone join in?
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social
inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre
will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
(a) DABC (b) ACDB (c) CBAD (d) DBAC
(CAT 2001)
Q3. A. Where there is division there must be conflict, not only division between man and woman, but
also division on the basis of race, religion and language.
B. We said the present condition of racial divisions, linguistic divisions has brought out so many
wars.
C. Also we went into the question as to why does this conflict between man and man exist.
D. May we continue with what we were discussing last evening?
(a) ABCD (b) DBCA (c) BCAD (d) BDAC
(CAT 1995)
Session Verbal Reasoning
Q4. A. No other documents give us so intimate a sense of the tone and temper of the first generation
poets.
B. Part of the interest of the journal is of course historical.
C. And the clues to Wordsworth's creative processes which the journal affords are of decisive
significance.
D. Not even in their own letters do Wordsworth and Coleridge stand so present before us than they
do through the references in the journal.
(a) BACD (b) BDAC (c) CBAD (d) DABC
(CAT 1995)
Q5. A. These high plans died, slowly but definitively, and were replaced by the dream of a huge work on
philosophy.
B. In doing whatever little he could of the new plan, the poet managed to write speculations on
theology, and political theory.
C. The poet's huge ambitions included writing a philosophic epic on the origin of evil.
D. However, not much was done in this regard either, with only fragments being written.
(a) ABCD (b) CBAD (c) CDAB (d) CADB
(CAT 1995)

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