Jumbled Paragraph Notes : Jumbled Paragraph Jumbled Paragraph is one of the sections of Verbal Aptitude, which is so much of a science that you can obtain an accuracy of 100% even if you are not a good reader. I have always maintained an accuracy of more than 90% in parajumbles. It is one of my favourite subsections & it was one of the portions of English which can be dealt logically . That’s why I luv this section. So listen from an Engineer who dealt with English in a logical way & cracked it as well with 99.8 percentile . Ha haha … .It was too surprising for me as well , when I saw it on the CAT scorecard. Rest is History. The instructions will read Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. In this article, I will cover all the basic techniques there are to solve jumbled paragraphs. For me, cracking the parajumbles revolves around one basic technique: Establish Link Between two Sentences & then examine the options Is establishing links between two sentences easy? Not 100% time. However, easy or not, you can certainly establish links between two or more sentences with the help of some friends found in the sentences. These are: TRANSITION WORDS: Transition words make the shift from one idea to another very smooth. They organize and connect the sentences logically. Observing the transition words found in a sentence can often give you a clue about the sentence that will come before/after that particular sentence. Given below are some commonly used transition words: likewise, on one hand, on the other hand, rather, meanwhile, next, then, soon, the meantime, similarly, yet, but, however, still, nevertheless, first of all, to begin with, at the same time, for now, for the time being, in time, later on, also, again, as well as, besides, furthermore, in addition, likewise, moreover, similarly, consequently, hence, otherwise, subsequently, therefore, thus, as a rule, generally, for instance, for example, for one thing, above all, aside from, barring, besides, in other words, in short, instead, later, while, earlier, simultaneously, afterward, in conclusion, with this in mind, after all, all in all, to sum up. So how does it helps us in parajumbles? A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemys productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities. B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemys productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if youre really vicious, salt them. C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemys productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure. D. How do you do battle with your enemy? E. The idea is to destroy the enemys productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case. F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy. 1. FDEBAC 2. FCABED 3. DEBACF 4. DFEBAC Answer: Look at the transition word but in the first sentence. It gives us the clue that the sentence is expressing an idea contrary to an idea expressed in some previous sentence. Now we need to find that previous sentence. If we further look at the beginning of the first sentence, which says but in the industrial era... which suggests that the contrariness is with respect to eras. Looking further, we see that sentence B and C are also starting with statement about eras. But the transition word at the start of C is now which expresses present era and hence it cannot chronologically appear before any other past era. That is, if information era is the present era, talk about any other era will come before this. So sentence B is the correct sentence to come before the first sentence. Likewise, sentence C is the correct sentence to come after the first sentence (sentence C is continuing the idea). Therefore, we have the link BAC. We see that option 1, 3 and 4 all have the link BAC. Furthermore, all the three options have the link EBAC. Therefore, we only need to arrange D and F. The sentence F states that The purpose is...to battle with the enemy and D questions how do you battle with the enemy? Therefore, D will come after F. Hence FDEBAC is the correct arrangement. PERSONAL PRONOUNS: Personal pronouns are he, she, it, him, her, they, you, your etc. Remember that personal pronouns always refer to a person, place or thing etc. Therefore, if a sentence contains a personal pronoun without mentioning the person, place or object it is referring to, the person, place or object must have come in the previous sentence. Often, this is a good lead to identify a link. (CAT Question) A. Passivity is not, of course, universal. B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different. C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the un-submissive. D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another. E. This depends on an assessment of the political situation. 1. BEDAC 2. CDABE 3. EDBAC 4. ABCDE Answer: It cannot get easier than this. Look at the personal pronoun it in sentence C: So indeed it may be on the fringe of the un-submissive. What is it here referring to? And it says that it may be un-submissive. What possibly can be un-submissive? It cannot be political situation (sentence E), passivity (sentence A), or problem (sentence D). Only attitude (sentence B) can be un-submissive. Therefore, BC is a link. The link BC is only present in option 4 and we need not look any further. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS: The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those. This and that are used to refer to singular nouns or noun phrases and these and those are used to refer to plural nouns and noun phrases. Whenever a sentence contains a demonstrative pronoun without mentioning the noun or the noun phrase, it means that the previous sentence must be mentioning that noun or noun phrase. Finding that noun or noun phrase helps us connect two sentences. Here’s another CAT question for you to crack: COMBINING IT ALL WITH LOGIC: Sometimes using logic to decide the order of sentences can yield high dividends. To get Daily dose of English , Quants , Reasoning & GK Like this page :https://facebook/pages/Illuminate-Minds/1419160818356203?ref_type=bookmark
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