Para Jumbles for CAT

Set 1
4 October 2017

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Instructions

Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D in a proper sequence so as to make a coherent

paragraph.

Question 1

A. Good advertising can make people buy your products even if it sucks.
B. A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product
improvement.
C. That's important because it takes pressure off you to make good products.
D. Obviously, there's a minimum quality that every product has to achieve: it should be
able to withstand the shipping process without becoming unrecognizable.

Question 2

A. And that the pursuit of money by whatever design within the law is always benign.
B. And it holds broadly that the greater the amount of money, the greater the intelligence.
C. This is the institutional truth of Wall Street, this you will be required to believe.
D. The institutional truth of the financial world holds that association with money implies
intelligence.

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Question 3

A. That Hollywood is a man's world is certainly true, but it is not the whole truth.
B. Even Renaissance film actress, Jodie Foster, who hosts this compendium of movie
history, confesses surprise at this.
C. She says that she had no idea that women were so active in the industry even in those
days.
D. During the silent era, for example, female scriptwriters outnumbered males 10 to 1.

Question 4

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence

of six sentences.
1. Buddhism is a way to salvation.
A. But Buddhism is more severely analytical.
B. In the Christian tradition there is also a concern for the fate of human society conceived
as a whole, rather than merely as a sum or network of individuals.
C. Salvation is a property, or achievement of individuals.
D. Not only does it dissolve society into individuals, the individual in turn is dissolved into
component parts and instants, a stream of events.
6. In modern terminology, Buddhist doctrine is reductionist.

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Question 5
A. However, the real challenge today is in unlearning, which is much harder.
B. But the new world of business behaves differently from the world in which we grew up.
C. Learning is important for both people and organizations.
D. Each of us has a 'mental model' that we've used over the years to make sense.

Answers and Explanations:

Question 1:

Sentence A starts the paragraph by introducing "Good Advertising." Sentence C highlights the
importance of A. Sentence B extends sentence C by highlighting the aspect of brain washing and
Sentence D concludes it properly.
The correct sequence is ACBD.

Question 2:

D introduces the paragraph. B elaborates on the idea mentioned in D. So, B follows D. This is
then followed by A, which continues the idea of D-B. C is the concluding sentence.
The correct order of sentences is DBAC.

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Question 3:

A introduces the main subject of the paragraph. D tells us more about A by giving examples. BC
is the logical pair as "She" in C refers to Jodie Foster mentioned in B.
So, the correct sequence is ADBC

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Question 4:

Sentence C is the starting sentence as it talks about the as salvation. Sentence B is the next
sentence as it mentions the traditions of Christianity. A and D differentiates the Buddhism from
Christianity.

The correct order is CBAD.

Question 5:

Sentences A and B start with conjunctions. So, they cannot be used to open a paragraph. The
best opening sentence is C. This is immediately followed by A, which gives a contradictory
opinion to the one in C. A is followed by D which further explores the idea in A. The last
sentence is B.

So, the correct sequence is CADB

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