Crack CAT 2014 ParaJumbles the Career Anna way !!
One of the most important topics in Section II of CAT after Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning is ParaJumbles. It has a high weightage and plays critical role in contributing to assisting candidates to clear the cutoff for the section. We have been interacting with many of you out there and have understood that it is one of the major pain points for most of you. In our series to demystify how to crack important topics for CAT 2014, today your own exam preparation portal brings to you the simple way to crack CAT 2014 Parajumbles.
Let us first understand few perceptions linked with Parajumbles.
CAT 2014 Parajumbles: Incorrect Perceptions
- We have seen candidates having the perception that Parajumbles cannot be solved without the help of options. Well, it is an incorrect perception. These questions can be easily solved without options.
- Another perception around Parajumbles is that these are time consuming questions. Again, the answer is no. You may solve these pretty quickly once you have a good hold over the approach needed to solve.
- Parajumbles are the most difficult type of questions in Section II. They are the most important and critical for your success, but definitely not the most difficult type of questions.
- Many believe that one needs to be strong in vocabulary to solve Parajumbles. The answer is again no. Infact, this is the only type of questions which one may solve correctly with the least hold on vocabulary. However, minimum english knowledge is always needed to solve any type of questions in Section II and Parajumbles are no exception.
Cracking ParaJumbles the Career Anna way
- Begin with trying to understand the idea behind the paragraph.If you are able to understand this idea/theme, it becomes easier to put the sentences in order.
- Now, start looking for the starting or the concluding sentences. Sometimes they are clearly visible and can help you immensely in identifying the correct sequence. In few other cases, it might not be easily visible but can help you to zero down on possible 2 sentences which may play this role and hence make your path relatively easy.
- Once you have some idea of the starting and the concluding sentences, try to identify the relationships between different sentences and put them in the right sequence. Some of the most common examples of relationships between 2 sentences are parallel and contrasting idea relations.
- Some of the other commonly existing relationships in parajumble questions are: Cause and Effect, Moving from generic to specific description, Explanation and Elaboration, Chronological order (using time dimension as the basis), action sequence, idea transformation and idea reiteration.
- Transition words and contrasting words would always help you in finding relationships between sentences given in parajumble questions. So, keep a close eye on them.
- As soon as you fix the relationships of sentences, put them in order and then check the options. You will surely be left with either one or two options only.
- Do not begin attempting the questions on Parajumbles by looking at the options. They only confuse you if you keep looking at them. Use them towards the end as facilitators.
- At the end, once you have zeroed upon a specific option as an answer, cross check by seeing if the whole paragraph has a coherent idea and flow.
Solved Examples
Question 1
A. 1971 war changed the political geography of the subcontinent
B. Despite the significance of the event . there has been no serious book about the conflict
C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill this gap
D. It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in South-East Asia
B. Despite the significance of the event . there has been no serious book about the conflict
C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill this gap
D. It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in South-East Asia
1) ACBD 2) CADB 3) BADC 4) ADBC
We can easily observe here that A should be the most likely starting sentence.This helps us in eliminating options 2 and 3 as they start with C and B respectively and not A .This narrows down us to option 1 and option 4. On further seeing the sentences, we can infer that the gap spoken of in sentence C has no correlation with political geography of the subcontinent spoken of in sentence A , so C cannot follow A; while D talks about the situation whose crated out of the war and hence the logical sequence to sentence A.
Therefore answer has to be option D , as we can also see it elaborates on the change mentioned in sentence A.
Therefore answer has to be option D , as we can also see it elaborates on the change mentioned in sentence A.
Question 2
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question: ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
1) DABC 2) ACDB 3) CBAD 4) DBAC
This is a question with moderate difficulty level where one needs to identify that the clue to solve the question lies in the word ‘calculable’ in sentence B- “So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable”. You should think that how does something become ‘calculable’ ? Try to find its answer in other 3 sentences and you will see that sentence A gives the answer to this, through the phrase ‘clearly defined theory’ . Something becomes calculable when it is clearly defined in theory. No other sentence could give answers to ‘calculable’. Therefore, the link AB is mandatory to be there in the paragraph. Now look at the options and you will see that link AB is present in option 1 only, which is hence the answer.
Few Questions to Practice
Question 1
A. A combination of to-do list, memory jogger personal diary and records of lessons learned, wheel books ensured that all hands received and were accountable for orders and instructions.
B. More than 12000 officers, including graduates of Naval academy, have received palms in the last 2 years.
C. Still in use today, they are generally small spiral note pads that can be tucked in a pocket.
D. The devices are meant to replace the wheel books, the note books used by generations of sailors from ship’s captain on down.
1) ACBD 2) BDAC 3) ACDB 4) BDCA
Question 2
A. Teachers in the state have 85 holidays per year
B. But West Bengal seems to have fostered asuch a phenomenon, and the government had found nothing unnatural in this.
C. Truant teachers make an interesting paradox.
D. In fact, this has become quiet comfortably a part of the general sabbatical tendency in Bengal.
1) ABCD 2) CDAB 3) CABD 4) CBAD
Question 3
A. Call him a nationalist and he will show you his Italian silk shirt.
B. He cracks them instead.
C. Ask him his contribution to his household and he will mumble, “I designed the kitchen”.
D. Dr. verghese Kurien doesn’t fit into any mould.
1) ACDB 2) ACBD 3) DCBA 4) DBAC
Answers:
1) 2
2) 4
3) 4
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