The CAT VARC section requires good reading skills, critical thinking, and attention to detail, along with a thorough understanding of the Sentence Arrangement. This article provides a set of MCQs on Sentence Arrangement 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 Sentence Arrangement

1. Choose the correct sequence of sentences:
[I.] But she gained courage as she went on
[II.] She was a little nervous about it just at first
[III.] and opened their eyes and mouths so very wide
[IV.] the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side\bigskip
A
I, III, II, IV
B
II, IV, III, I
C
II, I, IV, III
D
None of the above
\bigskip

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2. Choose the correct sequence of sentences:
[I.] It would perhaps be possible for him to be of some use to this brave girl
[II.] he said to himself, vaguely at first, that
[III.] without neglecting anything of what was due to his important mission.
[IV.] and this idea pleased him\bigskip
A
I, III, II, IV
B
III, II, I, IV
C
I, III, II, IV
D
None of the above
\bigskip

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3. 1. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory.
2. Thus the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure.
3. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be closed totally by the political pursuit of self-interest.
4. The political model holds that individual interests are pursued in organizational life through the exercise of power and influence.
A
ADBC
B
CBAD
C
DBCA
D
ABDC

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4. A. Group decision making, however, does not necessarily fully guard against arbitrariness and anarchy, for individual capriciousness can get substituted by collusion of group members.
B. Nature itself is an intricate system of checks and balances, meant to preserve the delicate balance between various environmental factors that affect our ecology.
C. In institutions also, there is a need to have in place a system of checks and balances which inhibits the concentration of power in only some individuals.
D. When human interventions alter this delicate balance, the outcomes have been seen to be disastrous.
A
CDAB
B
BCAD
C
CABD
D
BDCA

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5. A. He was bone-weary and soul-weary, and found himself muttering, “either I can’t manage this place, or it’s unmanageable.”
B. To his horror, he realized that he had become the victim of an amorphous, unwitting, unconscious conspiracy to immerse him in routine work that had no significance.
C. It was one of those nights in the office when the office clock was moving towards four in the morning and Bennis was still not through with the incredible mass of paper stacked before him.
D. He reached for his calendar and ran his eyes down each hour, half-hour and quarter-hour, to see where his time had gone that day, the day before, the month before.
A
ABCD
B
CADB
C
BDCA
D
DCBA

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6. A. With that, I swallowed the shampoo, and obtained most realistic results almost on the spot.
B. The man shuffled away into the back regions to make up a prescription, and after a moment I got through on the shop-telephone to the Consulate, intimating my location.
C. Then, while the pharmacist was wrapping up a six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and inquired whether he could give me something for acute gastric cramp.
D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack, and entering an old-fashioned pharmacy, I asked for a popular shampoo mixture, consisting of olive oil and flaked soap.
A
DCBA
B
DACB
C
BDAC
D
BCDA

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7. A. Since then, intelligence tests have been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average or bright children, so that special education can be provided to the dull ones.
B. In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age.
C. Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what an average child of a certain age can do -- what a 5-year-old can answer, but a 4-year-old cannot, for instance.
D. Binet developed the first set of such tests in the early 1900s to find out which children in school needed special attention.
E. Intelligence can be measured by tests.
A
CDABE
B
DECAB
C
EDACB
D
CBADE

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8. A. there was the hope that in another existence a greater happiness would reward one
B. previous existence, and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when
C. it would be less difficult to bear the evils of one’s own life if
D. one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one’s errors in a
A
CABD
B
BDCA
C
BADC
D
CDBA

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9. A. he can only renew himself if his soul
B. he renews himself and
C. the writer can only be fertile if
D. is constantly enriched by fresh experience
A
CBAD
B
CADB
C
BDCA
D
BACD

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10. A. but a masterpiece is
B. untaught genius
C. a laborious career than as the lucky fluke of
D. more likely to come as the culminating point of
A
CDAB
B
ADCB
C
CDBA
D
ACDB

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11. A. what interests you is the way in which you have created the illusion
B. they are angry with you, for it was
C. the public is easily disillusioned and then
D. the illusion they loved; they do not understand that
A
ACBD
B
BDCA
C
CBDA
D
BCAD

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12. A. an adequate physical and social infrastructure level
B. the pattern of spatial growth in these towns as also to
C. the failure of the government to ensure
D. the roots of the riots are related to
A
ACBD
B
DBCA
C
ABDC
D
CBDA

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13. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly independent developing country.

A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without development.

A
CDAB
B
DCBA
C
CABD
D
BACD

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14. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?

A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.

A
BADC
B
DBAC
C
ABCD
D
DCBA

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15. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is blind.

A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.

A
CDBA
B
DCBA
C
ABCD
D
BADC

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