The CAT VARC section requires good reading skills, critical thinking, and attention to detail, along with a thorough understanding of the Para Jumbles. This article provides a set of MCQs on Para Jumbles to help you understand the topic and enhance your verbal ability with the help of detailed solutions, which will help you in the CAT 2025 exam preparation.
Whether you're revising the basics or testing your knowledge, these MCQs will serve as a valuable practice resource.
The CAT 2025 exam is expected to follow a similar trend to the CAT 2024, with 24 questions from the VARC section out of a total of 68 questions.
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CAT MCQs on Para Jumbles
1. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
Urbanites also have more and better options for getting around: Uber is ubiquitous; easy-to-rent dockless bicycles are spreading; battery-powered scooters will be next.
B
When more people use buses or trains the service usually improves because public-transport agencies run more buses and trains.
C
Worsening services on public transport, terrorist attacks in some urban metros and a rise in fares have been blamed for this trend.
D
It seems more likely that public transport is being squeezed structurally as people’s need to travel is diminishing as a result of smartphones, video conferencing, online shopping and so on.
2. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
Animals have an interest in fulfilling their basic needs, but also in avoiding suffering, and thus we ought to extend moral consideration.
B
Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
C
He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain significant interests.
D
The event that publicly announced animal rights as a legitimate issue within contemporary philosophy was Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation text in 1975.
3. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
The UK is a world leader in developing cultivated meat and the approval of a cultivated pet food is an important milestone.
B
If we're to realise the full potential benefits of cultivated meat the government must invest in research and infrastructure.
C
The first UK applications for cultivated meat produced for humans remain under assessment with the Food Standards Agency.
D
The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human consumption.
4. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture
B
The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn’t mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism.
C
Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.
D
Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback.
5. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
To create a synapse, the neuron has specialized structures, often seen as tiny swellings, at its terminal end of the axon where it stores the chemicals that are emitted to transmit a signal to the next neuron.
B
This fetal warm-up act—the soldering of neural connections before the eyes actually function—is crucial to the performance of the visual system.
C
The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and reinforce the “correct” synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones.
D
Neural connections between the eyes and the brain are formed long before birth, establishing the wiring and the circuitry that allow a child to begin visualizing the world the minute she emerges from the womb.
6. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
A
Part of the appeal of forecasting is not just that it seems to work, but that you don't seem to need specialized expertise to succeed at it.
B
The tight connection between forecasting and building a model of the world helps explain why so much of the early interest in the idea came from the intelligence community.
C
This was true even though the latter had access to classified intelligence.
D
One frequently cited study found that accurate forecasters' predictions of geopolitical events, when aggregated using standard scientific methods, were more accurate than the forecasts of members of the US intelligence community who answered the same questions in a confidential prediction market.
7. Sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A
Paucity of serious thought is no surprise in the government, but one would have thought that the considerably educated PM, who at one time did research of some quality, would have tried to answer for his own satisfaction how effective reservation policies have been.
B
In his approach to Pakistan, he has gone about enthusiastically looking for out of the box solutions.
C
Assuming that he came to the above conclusion—it is hard to imagine how he would come to any other?
D
My question is why should they be confined to the ‘Pak policy only? SC/STs deserve them more.
8. Sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
A
Overcoming the handicap of crushing poverty, he has had a phenomenal run thus far.
B
Soon enough, the mentor faced exploitation charges, with a government agency taking objection to the manner in which the boy’s grooming is being handled.
C
When his widowed mother was reportedly on the verge of giving up on it all, a martial arts coach descended on stage like a deus ex machina.
D
The controversy even found its way to the court.
9. (a)Although thoughts are primary, thoughts in themselves have no method of transmission and are therefore dependent on speech.
(b)If we were to summarize the logo-centric approach to meaning, we should state that what emerges is that speech is the original signifier of meaning.
(c)Language, the cornerstone of humanity, emerges as a process to allow our thoughts to travel across space and between people.
(d)Language can then be viewed as a system of verbal signs that signify individual thought.
(e)Language produces speech to transmit thoughts and writing to transmit speech.
(b)If we were to summarize the logo-centric approach to meaning, we should state that what emerges is that speech is the original signifier of meaning.
(c)Language, the cornerstone of humanity, emerges as a process to allow our thoughts to travel across space and between people.
(d)Language can then be viewed as a system of verbal signs that signify individual thought.
(e)Language produces speech to transmit thoughts and writing to transmit speech.
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10. (a)Generally speaking, in pre-capitalist societies people produced things directly for other people, not for sale on a market – in Marx’s language, they produced for use, not exchange.
(b)However, producing things for sale (or exchange) creates a new dynamic, different from societies that produce directly for use.
(c)Capitalism is very different from past modes of production.
(d)Under capitalism, nearly all of the products of human labor are commodities, that is, they are produced for sale.
(e)Every system of production has to regulate how much of people’s labor is spent producing one thing versus another, so that the society does not end up using labor on things that are useless.
(f)Marx called this “generalized commodity production”—people obtain their needs not by producing what they need, but by purchasing them on a market, and people produce what other people need and want by selling things on a market.
(b)However, producing things for sale (or exchange) creates a new dynamic, different from societies that produce directly for use.
(c)Capitalism is very different from past modes of production.
(d)Under capitalism, nearly all of the products of human labor are commodities, that is, they are produced for sale.
(e)Every system of production has to regulate how much of people’s labor is spent producing one thing versus another, so that the society does not end up using labor on things that are useless.
(f)Marx called this “generalized commodity production”—people obtain their needs not by producing what they need, but by purchasing them on a market, and people produce what other people need and want by selling things on a market.
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11. The scientist and the artist are both concerned to change the world — the one the external world of man's objective relations with nature, the other the internal world of his subjective relations with his fellow men. The scientist discovers a contradiction in his consciousness of the external world and resolves it in a scientific hypothesis; the artist discovers a contradiction in his consciousness of the internal world and resolves it in a work of art. Both are creative acts. The scientist extends our knowledge and hence also our control of nature —
A
The artist takes complex explanations and renders them simple.
B
In doing so, he proves that there is nothing we cannot do - everything is brought within our command.
C
The artist heightens our sense of ourselves as social beings and so advances the class struggle.
D
The artist teaches us to think for ourselves.
12. Arrange the sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
C. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation – being low caste and being female – that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
C. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation – being low caste and being female – that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.
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13. Arrange the sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. What identity is thus ‘defined by contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
A. What identity is thus ‘defined by contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
B. Indian religious literature such as the \textit{Bhagavad Gita} or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from secular writings seen as ‘western’, elicits much greater interest in the West than do other Indian writings, including India’s long history of heterodoxy.
C. There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
D. Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
E. The exception is the \textit{Kamasutra} in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.
C. There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
D. Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
E. The exception is the \textit{Kamasutra} in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.
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14. Arrange the sentences to form a coherent paragraph:
A. This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe – up to a point.
A. This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe – up to a point.
B. It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
C. Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
D. The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.
E. This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.
C. Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
D. The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.
E. This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.
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15. Arrange the following sentences in the most logical order to form a coherent paragraph:
A. In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups.
B. Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
C. And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
D. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
E. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.
B. Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
C. And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
D. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
E. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.
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