XAT · Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
Para jumbles
Four or five sentences (labelled A to E) to be put in the most logical order; options are orders like BDAC.
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The sentences below, labelled A to D, form a paragraph when put in the right order. Choose the most logical order. A. Yet the same features that made the bazaar so resilient also made it hard to regulate. B. For centuries, the weekly bazaar was the economic heart of the Indian village. C. Traders came and went without licences, prices were set by haggling, and no ledger recorded who sold what to whom - nothing a tax officer could count. D. Because it needed no permanent buildings and no central authority, it survived famines, wars and changes of rulers.
Q2 · Para jumbles · MEDIUM
The sentences below, labelled A to D, form a paragraph when put in the right order. Choose the most logical order. A. The answer, it turned out, lay not in the soil but in the calendar. B. Farmers in the district had long complained that their wheat yields were falling, even as they used more fertiliser each year. C. Agronomists who studied the problem first tested the soil and found it rich in nutrients. D. Over two decades, sowing had drifted three weeks later, pushing the grain's ripening into the hottest days of March.
Q3 · Para jumbles · EASY
The sentences below, labelled A to D, form a paragraph when put in the right order. Choose the most logical order. A. This is why many cities now publish their bus timetables as open data. B. A bus that arrives on time is useful only if passengers know when it will arrive. C. Once the data is public, app developers can build journey planners that no transport department would have paid for itself. D. Yet printed timetables at bus stops are often torn, faded or out of date.