CRACK CAT: FOLLOW THE ORGANIZED STEPS TO SOLVE JUMBLED PARAGRAPHS IN VERBAL ABILITY (VA)
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With the reputation and stature that CAT
carries, it ensures to outsmart the candidates with several questions and
rising levels of difficulty. Out of the various sections of CAT exam, one of
the most essential constituents of the verbal section is jumbled paragraph.
In the verbal
section, the jumbled paragraph questions carry a group of misplaced sentences,
which are to be placed in order that makes sense. In the jumbled sentence none
of the sentences are arranged in a proper sequence. This section allows the
aspirant to score around 12 to 15 percent marks depending upon the number of
paragraphs of jumble questions.
The jumbled
paragraph questions are specifically designed to test student’s language
understanding, reading versatility, writing ability, vocabulary usage, usage of
grammar and proper usage of tenses. With the rising level of jumbled paragraph difficulty,
the mantra to solve such questions is to develop expertise in such questions by
practicing continuously and to follow a strategy.
In order to
avoid any slippage, the strategy that needs to be followed while attempting
these questions is to stay on tract and proceed in a stepwise manner. Moreover,
it is important to analyze the paragraph and enjoy solving jumbled paragraphs
instead of taking it as a burden.
Now days,
there are many CAT exam books and CAT preparation guides to help students have
a hand on such language questions. Arun Sharma CAT preparation books are one of
the famous CAT preparation books available in the market today.
CAT papers
have followed a trend of using any topic or genre for jumbled paragraph. Some
of the commonly used topics are as follows:
·
Idea based
·
Action
·
Contrast
·
General to specific or vice/versa
·
Analysis of cause and effect
In order to
solve these questions, students must follow the given points:
Step-1 – Marking
the tone and the idea of the sentences will help you to categorize the opening
and/or closing of the sentence. With good reading speed and accuracy, one can
also choose the elimination method for the same.
Step-2 – Find the
link between the sentences and search for connectors to the sentences. For eg;
pronouns used in place of some proper/common nouns, conjunctions, demonstrative
(these, those, this, that), personal (He/she/it/they/their etc.), relative
(Who, whose, that, which etc).
Step-3- Some of the
paragraphs are to be arranged in the chronological order. There will be events
in the paragraph which would come first and some you would need to put at last,
according to the sequence
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