CAT Para Jumbles Questions & Solutions

A sample of real CAT Para Jumbles past-year questions, each with a worked solution and the correct answer highlighted. AthenaPrep has 163 Para Jumbles questions in all — sign up free to practise them timed.

1. Q1.CAT 2025

   The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

   1. The effigy of a candidate establishes a personal link between him and the voters; the candidate does not only offer a programme for judgement, he suggests a physical climate, a set of daily choices expressed in a morphology, a way of dressing, a posture.
   2. Some candidates for Parliament adorn their electoral prospectus with a portrait; this presupposes that photography has a power to convert which must be analysed.
   3. Inasmuch as photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ social whole, it constitutes an anti-intellectual weapon and tends to spirit away ‘politics’ (that is to say a body of problems and solutions) to the advantage of a 'manner of being', a socio-moral status.
   4. Photography tends to restore the paternalistic nature of elections, whose elitist essence has been disrupted by proportional representation and the rule of parties (the Right seems to use it more than the Left).

   Answer: 2143

2. Q2.CAT 2022

   The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

   1. The creative element in product design has become of paramount importance as it is one of the few ways a firm or industry can sustain a competitive advantage over its rivals.

   2. In fact, the creative element in the value of world industry would be larger still, if we added the contribution of the creative element in other industries, such as the design of tech accessories.

   3. The creative industry is receiving a lot of attention today as its growth rate is faster than that of the world economy as a whole.

   4. It is for this reason that today’s trade issues are increasingly involving intellectual property, as Western countries have an interest in protecting their revenues along with freeing trade in non-tangibles.

   Answer: 3214

3. Q3.CAT 2021

   The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

   1. Businesses find automation, such as robotic employees, a big asset in terms of productivity and efficiency.
   2. But in recent years, robotics has had increasing impacts on unemployment, not just of manual labour, as computers are rapidly handling some white-collar and service-sector work.
   3. For years politicians have promised workers that they would bring back their jobs by clamping down on trade, offshoring and immigration.
   4. Economists, based on their research, say that the bigger threat to jobs now is not globalisation but automation.

   Answer: 3412

4. Q4.CAT 2019

   The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

   1. People with dyslexia have difficulty with print-reading, and people with autism spectrum disorder have difficulty with mind-reading.
   2. An example of a lost cognitive instinct is mind-reading: our capacity to think of ourselves and others as having beliefs, desires, thoughts and feelings.
   3. Mind-reading looks increasingly like literacy, a skill we know for sure is not in our genes, since scripts have been around for only 5,000-6,000 years.
   4. Print-reading, like mind-reading varies across cultures, depends heavily on certain parts of the brain, and is subject to developmental disorders.

   Answer: 2341

5. Q5.CAT 2018

   The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer:
   
   

   1. They would rather do virtuous side projects assiduously as long as these would not compel them into doing their day jobs more honourably or reduce the profit margins.
   2. They would fund a million of the buzzwordy programs rather than fundamentally question the rules of their game or alter their own behavior to reduce the harm of the existing distorted, inefficient and unfair rules.
   3. Like the dieter who would rather do anything to lose weight than actually eat less, the business elite would save the world through social-impact-investing and philanthro-capitalism.
   4. Doing the right thing — and moving away from their win-win mentality — would involve real sacrifice; instead, it’s easier to focus on their pet projects and initiatives.

   Answer: 3241

6. Q6.CAT 2005

   The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

   A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe - up to a point.

   B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.

   C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.

   D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.

   E) This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.

   • ADCBE

   • EBDCA

   • ABDCE

   • DCBEA

7. Q7.CAT 2002

   The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

   A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.

   B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.

   C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs in choosing what not to do.

   D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.

   E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.

   F. When a company’s activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

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8. Q8.CAT 2000

   The, sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

   A.If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught.

   B.The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.

   C.Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.

   D.This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivations of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse, starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.

   E.Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.

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9. Q9.CAT 1999

   1. The reconstruction of history by post-revolutionary science texts involves more than a multiplication of historical misconstructions.

   A. Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with what the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.

   B. Those misconstructions render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a function.

   C. But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to follow.

   D. As pedagogy this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.

   6. Science has reached its present state by a series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modem body of technical knowledge.

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   • ADCB

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   • CBDA

10. Q10.CAT 1998

    Arrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph

    A. The establishment of the Third Reich influenced events in American history by starting a chain of events which culminated in war between Germany and the United States.

    B. The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936 prohibited trade with any belligerents or loans to them.

    C. While speaking out against Hitler's atrocities, the American people generally favoured isolationist policies and neutrality.

    D. The complete destruction of democracy, the persecution of Jews, the war on religion, the cruelty and barbarism of the allies, caused great indignation in this country and brought on fear of another World War.

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    • CBDA

    • CDBA

    • ADCB

11. Q11.CAT 1997

    Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D in a proper sequence so as to make a coherent paragraph.

    A. Good advertising can make people buy your products even if it sucks.

    B. A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

    C. That's important because it takes pressure off you to make good products.

    D. Obviously, there's a minimum quality that every product has to achieve: it should be able to withstand the shipping process without becoming unrecognizable.

    • BACD

    • ACBD

    • ADCB

    • BCDA

12. Q12.CAT 1996

    1. Historically, stained glass was almost entirely reserved for ecclesiastical spaces.
    A. By all counts, he has accomplished that mission with unmistakable style.
    B. "It is my mission to bring it kicking and screaming out of that milieu," says Clarke.
    C. The first was the jewel-like windows he designed for a Cistercian Church in Switzerland.
    D. Two recent projects show his genius in the separate worlds of the sacred and the mundane.
    6. The second was a spectacular, huge skylight in a shopping complex in Brazil.
    

    • CBAD

    • BADC

    • ABDC

    • DBAC

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