CRACK CAT: FOLLOW THE ORGANIZED STEPS TO SOLVE JUMBLED PARAGRAPHS IN VERBAL ABILITY (VA)

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Aug 17, 2013
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Are CAT exam preparation taking a tool on you? Now stop crushing your teeth out of anxiety and indulge into a well-known CAT Preparation Book to beat the game. One of the most critical section of CAT i.e., jumbled paragraph is explained well in Arun Sharma CAT preparation book. Learn the four steps that can help you crack language problems better. 

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

Step-4 – A jumbled paragraph would comprise certain words that denote the end of paragraph or transformation to the next para. For eg; however, hence, so, simultaneously, summing up, in a nutshell, nevertheless, apart from, therefore etc. These words should be noted carefully and reassembled in the paragraph
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