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B. He used a hungry cat in a puzzled box where it tried ways to get out in order to get to
the food.
D. He established the fact that like the cat, man too, learns by trial and error.
Choices:
1. ACBD
2. BACD
3. ACDB
4. ABCD
This type of LET questions tests comprehension skills and your skill in
organizing ideas in a paragraph. While this type of question may seem
intimidating at at first, don’t worry because we will create a systematic
way of answering it.
Let’s try to find the best answer using the process of elimination.
Suggested Steps:
1. Read all the sentences while trying to find the
topic sentence.
The topic sentence is unique because it can usually stand on its own
and it states what the paragraph is all about. When spotting the topic
sentence, you may be able to eliminate some of the options by looking
for pronouns. Topic sentences should have its own noun subject. If the
sentence only has a pronoun subject, it cannot be the topic sentence.
In our example above, both B and D only have pronoun subjects. Any
choice with B or D as the first sentence should be eliminated. With this
reasoning in mind, we can proceed to remove option 2 (BACD).
1. ACBD
2. BACD
3. ACDB
4. ABCD
While paragraph creation in the real world varies in form, when taking
the LET, you should anticipate that the topic sentence will be used as
the first sentence in the sequence. In our example above, the choices
have made it easy for us to spot the topic sentence because other than
option 2, all options have A as their first sentence. We can safely
assume that sentence A is the topic sentence.
B. He used a hungry cat in a puzzled box where it tried ways to get out in order to get to
the food.
D. He established the fact that like the cat, man too, learns by trial and error.
We could get more clues on the best sequence by figuring out the
subject of the pronoun ‘He’ in these sentences. Both sentences A and C
have possible candidates (man for sentence A and Edward C. Thorndike
for sentence C). By looking at the context of the sentences however, we
will be able to see that they are talking about an experiment in the trial
and error method of learning.
With this in mind, we can safely assume that Edard Thorndike is the
subject of the pronouns in both sentences. We can also assume that that
sentences B and D should come after sentence C, which talks about
Edward Thorndike. Any answer that puts B or D before C should be
eliminated.
1. ACBD
2. BACD
3. ACDB
4. ABCD
D. He established the fact that like the cat, man too, learns by trial and error.
In this example, we can conclude that B should go first because the cat
introduced in this sentence is later referenced in sentence D. The
paragraph will not make sense if D comes first.
By using the steps above, sometimes, you will be able to find the answer
instantly. Take this questions for example:
B. The religion of the teacher helps him in reducing his fears and uncertainties.
C. His religion responds to his needs for a means to allay fears about the uncertainty of
events contrary to natural laws.
D. Religion is important because it provides spiritual nourishment for his total being.
Choices:
1. ABCD
2. BACD
3. DBCA
4. CBAD
The first step is to identify the topic sentence. In this case, this is easy to
spot because all other sentences already use pronouns without
establishing a noun subject. We can safely assume that the topic
sentence should have the subject of all these pronouns.
A. Before, his religion was basically involved with rituals and ceremonies.
C. His religion responds to his needs for a means to allay fears about the uncertainty
of events contrary to natural laws.
D. Religion is important because it provides spiritual nourishment for his total being.
Luckily, only one of the choices has B as the first sentence. The answer
is option 2 (BACD).
1. ABCD
2. BACD
3. DBCA
4. CBAD
Leveling Up
Too easy? Let’s try one with a higher difficulty level:
Example 3 (Difficulty Level: Average):
A. Many innovations without proven results and follow up evaluation are educational
wastages
B. One wonders in the final analysis if these changes have been deeply rooted on basic
problems of the people they serve.
D. What we need are innovations that overcome the miseducation of the young.
Choices:
1. BACD
2.ACDB
3. ABCD
4. CBAD
As with the other examples, the first step is to read all the sentences and
identify the topic sentence. In this example, we do not have a lot of
pronouns and almost all the sentences can stand alone as topic
sentences. Among them, only sentence B some sort of pronoun clue:
B. One wonders in the final analysis if these changes have been deeply rooted on
basic problems of the people they serve.
With this clue, we are able to assume that ‘these changes’ refer to the
change mentioned in sentence C.
We can now assume that C should surely come before B. The next step
is to eliminate the choices that do puts B before C.
1. BACD
2.ACDB
3. ABCD
4. CBAD
Now that options 1 and 3 are out of the picture, we only have options 2
and 4 to consider. At this point, you will need to go back to these two
options and recite the sentences aloud to check which sounds better. Of
the two options, the sequence with sentence A as the topic sentence (2.
ACDB) makes more sense rather than putting C first.
There are times when you will need to make an intelligent guess with
this type of question. In this case, we guessed that option 2 is the correct
answer.
D. The educational goals should seek for a better way of experimentation in the
teaching strategies and technologies.
Choices:
1. ABCD
2. ABDC
3. BCAD
4. DABC
Options 1 and 2 have the same topic sentence (A). Option 3 has
sentence B while option 4 has D. Right off the bat, we can eliminate
option 4.
D. The educational goals should seek for a better way of experimentation in the
teaching strategies and technologies.
1. ABCD
2. ABDC
3. BCAD
4. DABC
Your turn
Now, we only have options one and two to consider. Both options have
sentences A and B as the first two. They seem to be supporting each
other well. The only difference is the sequence of the last two sentences.
At this point, you will need to decide whether you will put sentence C or
D first.