ParaTopic/Course

jumbles
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)
 Yuor Barin Can Raed Tihs
Topic/Course
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)

1.Mother-in-law – Woman Hitler

2.Astronomer – Moon starer
3.Election results – Lies, let’s re-count
4.Parliament – Partial men
A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety
of moves.
B. At times,Topic/Course
he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush feltSub-Topic
he had a name
(Example: mission
of college) to restore power to the Presidency.

D. Bush was not fighting just the Democrats.

E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of
the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers
and time wasters.
(a) CAEBD (b) DBAEC
(c) CEADB (d) ECDBA
1. What does the state do in a country where tax morality is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon tax payers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly whatTopic/Course
the tax authority does even now, even if inconsistently.
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any
conspicuously prosperous neighbours who may be suspected of not
paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BACD (b) DBAC
(c) ACDB (d) DCBA
Strategies to Solve Para jumbles
 Topic/Course
1) Find the Opening /Closing Sentence
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)
2) Identify the mandatory Pairs
3) Pronoun Antecedent Pair
General-to-specific transition:

Topic/Course
A. Batting and fielding are valued more today than bowling is.
B. Batting, bowling and fielding are the key skills required on the
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)

cricket pitch.
Idea elaboration :

Topic/Course
A. Russia possesses the largest stockpiles of weapons of mass
destruction in the world.
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)

B.489 missiles carrying up to 1788 warheads and 12 submarines

carrying up to 609 warheads form a looming threat.
Abbreviations:

A. AcquiredTopic/Course
Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a very
deadly disease.
Sub-Topic (Example: name of college)

B. Several people die from AIDS every single year.

 QUESTION 1:
Directions for questions 1 to 5: Choose the most logical order of the four sentences A to D to
construct a coherent paragraph, where 1 and 6 are first and last sentences respectively.
1. 1. Hunger lurks unseen in every village and city of our country.
A. What goes unrecognized is that death of starvation is only the most dramatic
manifestation of a much more invisible malaise - of pervasive, stubborn, chronic hunger.
B. Yet it surfaces into public consciousness only transiently, in moments when there are
troubling media reports of starvation deaths.
C. Among these are entire communities, utterly disenfranchised and asset less.
 QUESTION 1:
D. And, that there are millions of forgotten people in India who live routinely at the very
edge of survival, with hunger as a way of everyday life.
6. Like the Mushers, a proud and savagely oppressed Dalit community in Bihar and
Uttar Pradesh, who own not even the land on which their tenuous homesteads are built.
CTS – ’18

a. CBAD
b. BDAC
c. ADCB
d. BADC
 QUESTION 2:
2. 1. Jane Austen died and came back as a fantasy writer.
A. he book itself has been called, by a media ever eager to summarise even 800-page
hardcover tomes into a snappy catchphrase, “Harry Potter for adults”.
B. Unlike her previous avatar, the 21st-century Ms. Clarke (nee Austen) seems to be
enjoying the attention showered upon her and far from publishing her first book under
a pseudonym, has been a central performer at her own media circus.
C. The book, which she now calls her “debut”, began attracting media attention long
before publication and on release it’s been universally lauded.
D. In her new avatar, she calls herself Susanna Clarke, lives in Cambridge, and has
authored a fat historical fantasy novel set in the year 1860.
6. It’s also been praised by perhaps the best living author of British fantasy novels, Neil
Gaiman, as “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the past
seventy years.”
a. BADC b. DBCA c. DCAB d. DCBA
 QUESTION 3:
3. 1. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
A. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to
offer unique value.
B. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough trade-offs
in choosing what not to do.
C. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
D. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly
improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
6. When a company’s activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor
wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

a. BDCA
b. BACD
c. CBAD
d. ABDC
 QUESTION- 4:
4. 1. PST’s primary job at Space Applications Centre has been tracking land use and
forest cover with satellite images.
A. Soil and vegetation patterns were used in the search.
B. But PST has also used satellite pictures to suggest that an ancient fortified town had
existed 30 km from Junagadh.
C. It was claimed that soil and vegetation patterns on the ancient abandoned site reveal
specific patterns that can be picked by satellite images.
D. The site matches the description of Krishna’s town in an ancient scripture.
6. An archaeologist however cautioned that remote sensing and scriptures by themselves
would not be enough to identify a township.

a. BDCA
b. BDAC
c. CDBA
d. CBDA
 QUESTION 5:
5. 1. To seek the origin of the story, let us become children first
A. wherever primitive men are found, there we see them gathering eagerly around the
story teller
B. we note, in the development of any normal child, that there comes a time when for
his stories he desires knights, giants, elves, fairies, witches, magic and marvellous
adventures which have no basis in experience
C. to these instincts and the innate love for a story that man has, we are indebted to all
our literature
D. in the halls of our Saxon ancestors and in the bark wigwams of the American
Indians, the scoop and the tale bringer are always ever the most welcome guests
6. He tells extraordinary tales, which may be only the vague remembrances of a dream
or the creations of a drawing imagination, both of which are as real to his listeners as
any other part of life.
a. BCAD b. ABCD c. BDAC d. BCDA
 QUESTION 6:
Directions for questions 6-10: Select the arrangement of each set of fragments/sentences that
would make them into a coherent paragraph:
6. “This face off will continue for several months given the strong convictions on either
side,” says a senior functionary of the high powered task force on drought.
A. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some of
the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.
B. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a line of divide between
the two.
C. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying the
crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is required to
alleviate the damage.
D. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate monsoon had been sounded
by the Centre as well as most of the states, in late July and early August.
a. EBCDA b. DBACE c. BDCAE d. ECBDA
 QUESTION 7:
7. A. Products of mutual funds and insurance companies all aimed specifically at
women are an example of this act.
B. For this purpose, we looked at the district-wise figures for working women.
C. They influence a lot of consumption decisions and hence, there is a distinctive
attempt to target them.
D. The census provides interesting data on the presence of women in different areas in
the country, but what is more important is the extent of employment.
E. Women are a very important target group for a whole host of corporates.

a. DCEAB
b. DBECA
c. ECABD
d. ECADB
 QUESTION 8:
8.A. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature as that
“Mission Accomplished” banner hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the end of
the Iraq War.
B. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities unabated.
C. Washington responded to the favourable turn in economic news with enthusiasm.
D. The celebrations and high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be
found beyond the Beltway.
E. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2 percent and the monthly
unemployment rate dipped to 6 percent, euphoria gripped the US capital.
a. ACEDB
b. CEDAB
c. ECABD
d. ECBDA
 QUESTION-9:
9. A. Moreover, as argued above, knowledge is entailed not by way of justification as such,
but by the realization of good or fruit-ladenness of meaning and actions or iterated of
meaning and actions or iterated actions.
B. Knowledge is required in order to resolve doubts and thus in order to act meaningfully.
C. Therefore, the actions in a commonly led daily life are both meaningful and knowledge-
driven.
D. Indian theorists argue for a common knowledge, which is obtained through iterated
fruitful actions, through the authority of sentences (or words).
E. We argue for four sources of validation of knowledge, viz., sentence, interference, direct
perception and analogy.

a. AECBD
b. BDCEA
c. BAECD
d. EADCB
 QUESTION 10:
10. A. But if, having done so, you did not spare constructive thought as to why your
neighbourhood was becoming crime-prone, you would be leaving yourself vulnerable to
similar future intrusions.
B. While the international community can only hope that Moscow’s hostage drama is
resolved without further loss of innocent lives, it would not be inappropriate once again to
attempt to understand the nature and motivation of the archetypal terrorist who seeks
martyrdom.
C. today, in an era of globalisation, when the world is increasingly becoming an
interpenetrative community, we need to ask whether misconceived state policies aid and
abet terrorists in the guise of martyrs.
D. If you were to apprehend an armed nocturnal intruder in your house, your first and
correct reaction would be to somehow render the criminal powerless.
E. Ill- regulated communities breed crime.

a. BCDEA b .DABEC c. CEDAB d. BDAEC

 QUESTION 11:
Directions for questions 11 to 14: Choose the most logical order of the four sentences marked A
to D to construct a coherent paragraph, where 1 and 6 are first and last sentences, respectively.
11. 1. Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race
A. a man of another country will not do so
B. one may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way
of greetings when he meets someone he knows
C. it is a quality to be found among all people and nations in every corner of the earth
D. obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country
6. in any case, we should not mock at others’ habits.
a. ABDC
b. CBAD
c. BACD
d. BDAC
 QUESTION 12:
12.
1. But how does a new word get into the dictionary?
A. the word then passes from the realm of hearing to the realm of writing
B. when a new dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically
arranged citation slips for a particular word.
C. the dictionary makers notice it and make a note of it on a citation slip
D. the moment a new word is coined, it usually enters the spoken language
6. He sorts them according to their grammatical function, and
carefully writes a definition.

a. BCDA
b. ADBC
c. CADB
d. DACB
 QUESTION 13:
13.
1. Once upon a time an ant lived on the bank of a river.
A. The dove saw the ant struggling in water in a helpless condition.
B. All its efforts to come up failed.
C. One day it suddenly slipped into the water.
D. A dove lived in the tree on the bank not far from the spot.
6. She was touched. WIPRO – ’18

a. CBDA
b. BCAD
c. DCAB
d. ABCD
 QUESTION 14:
14.
1. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14th November,
1889.
A. Nehru met Mahatma Gandhi in February, 1920.
B. In 1905, he was sent to London to study at a school called Harrow.
C. He became the first Prime Minister of Independent India on
15th August, 1947.
D. He married Kamla Kaul in 1915.
6. He died on 27th May, 1964. CTS – ’18

a. BCAD
b. BDAC
c. CABD
d. DBCA
 QUESTION 15:
Directions for questions 15 to 18: Select the arrangement of each set of fragments/sentences
that would make them into a coherent paragraph.
15.
A. Participation involves more than the formal sharing of decisions.
B. Through anticipation, individuals or organisations consider trends and make plans,
shielding institutions from the trauma of learning by shock.
C. Innovative learning involves both anticipation and participation.
D. It is an attitude characterised by cooperation, dialogue and empathy.

a. BCAD
b. DACB
c. CBAD
d. ACBD
 QUESTION 16:
16.
A. But there are omissions and commissions in planning
B. It is true that standard has fallen in the general sector
C. In a period of expansion it is inevitable
D. Some say that quantitative expansion is achieved at the expense of quality
E. And the number of substandard institutions increased

a. DABCE
b. DBECA
c. BEDCA
d. BDECA
 QUESTION 17:
17.
A. though efforts were made all the while by powerful forces to gag the voices for human
dignity
B. for ending discrimination on the basis of the colour of the skin or social status has
never been muzzled
C. perhaps the first crusader against the reprehensible ‘apartheid’ was Gandhi and
D. ever since the first salvo was fired, the strident cry

a. DCBA
b. ABCD
c. BDCA
d. CDBA
 QUESTION 18:
18.
A. for most of us education is a short-cut to get employment and a
livelihood
B. they cannot satisfy the thirst for wealth and position
C. many people have no idea about the correct purpose of education
D. the only means of achieving satisfaction in life is the formation of character
E. but money and position always lead us astray if they are not attended by good
character

a. DEABC
b. CABED
c. CAEBD
d. CAEDB
 QUESTION 19:
19.
A. This fact was established in the 1970s by French survey expeditions to Equator near
the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth
the arc was about a kilo-meter shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact nature
of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at the
poles.
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude
or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an ‘oblate
spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of ‘how
much more’ was yet to be established.

a. BECAD b. BEDCA c. EDACB d. EBDCA

 QUESTION 20:
20.
A. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from “over-
branding”.
B. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
C. But reunification and the federal government’s move to Berlin have prompted
Germany to think again about its image.
D. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook
in 1855.
E. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself
abroad.

a. ACEBD
b. DECAB
c. BDAEC
d. DBAEC
Thank you