CAT (VARC) PYQs

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer. 1. In the era of smart world, however, 'Universal Basic Income' is an ineffective instrument which cannot address the potential breakdown of the social contract when large swathes of the population would effectively be unemployed. 2. In the era of industrial revolution, the abolition of child labour, poor laws and the growth of trade unions helped families cope with the pressures of mechanised work. 3. Growing inequality could be matched by a creeping authoritarianism that is bolstered by technology that is increasingly able to peer into the deepest vestiges of our lives. 4. New institutions emerge which recognise ways in which workers could contribute to and benefit by economic growth when, rather than if, their jobs are automated.

The sentences 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 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 philanthrocapitalism. 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.

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer. 1. Self-management is thus defined as the 'individual's ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic condition'. 2. Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care for as long as possible. 3. Having control means, among other things, that patients themselves perform self management activities. 4. Supporting people in decisions and actions that promote self-management is called self management support requiring a cooperative relationship between the patient, the family, and the professionals.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. A Japanese government panel announced that it recommends regulating only genetically modified organisms that have had foreign genes permanently introduced into their genomes and not those whose endogenous genes have been edited. The only stipulation is that researchers and businesses will have to register their modifications to plants or animals with the government, with the exception of microbes cultured in contained environments. Reactions to the decision are mixed. While lauding the potential benefits of genome editing, an editorial opposes across the-board permission. Unforeseen risks in gene editing cannot be ruled out. All genetically modified products must go through the same safety and labeling processes regardless of method.

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Our smartphones can now track our diets, our biological cycles, even our digestive systems and sleep-patterns. 2. Researchers have even coin ed a new term, "orthosomnia", to describe the insomnia brought on by paying too much attention to smartphones and sleep tracking apps. 3. Sleep, nature's soft nurse, is a blissful, untroubled state all too easily disturbed by earthly worries or a guilty conscience. 4. The existence of a market for such apps is unsurprising: shift work, a long-hours culture and blue light from screens have conspired to rob many of us of sufficient rest. 5. A new threat to a good night's rest has emerged smart-phones, with sleep-tracking apps.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Should the moral obligation to rescue and aid persons in grave peril, felt by a few, be enforced by the criminal law? Should we follow the lead of a number of European countries and enact bad Samaritan laws? Proponents of bad Samaritan laws must overcome at least three different sorts of obstacles. First, they must show the laws are morally legitimate in principle, that is, that the duty to aid others is a proper candidate for legal enforcement. Second, they must show that this duty to aid can be defined in a way that can be fairly enforced by the courts. Third, they must show that the benefits of the laws are worth their problems, risks and costs.

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. Much has been recently discovered about the development of songs in birds. 2. Some species are restricted to a single song learned by all individuals, others have a range of songs. 3. The most important auditory stimuli for the birds are the sounds of other birds. 4. For all bird species there is a prescribed path to development of the final song, 5. A bird begins with the subsong, passes through plastic song, until it achieves the species song.

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. The early optimism about sport's deterrent effects on delinquency was premature as researchers failed to find any consistent relationships between sports participation and deviance. As the initial studies were based upon cross-sectional data and the effects captured -were short-term, it was problematic to test and verify the temporal sequencing of events suggested by the deterrence theory. The correlation bet-ween sport and delinquency could not be disentangled from class and cultural variables known. Choosing individuals to play sports in the first place was problematic, which became more acute in the subsequent decades as researchers began to document Just how closely sports participation was linked to social class indicators.

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. 1. As India looks to increase the number of cities, our urban planning must factor in potential natural disasters and work out contingencies in advance. 2. Authorities must revise data and upgrade infrastructure and mitigation plans even if their local area hasn't been visited by a natural calamity yet. 3. Extreme temperatures, droughts, and forest fires have more than doubled since 4. There is no denying the fact that our baseline normal weather is changing. 5. It is no longer a question of whether we will be hit by nature's fury but rather when.

The sentences 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 numbers as your answer. 1. It was his taxpayers who had to shell out as much as $\$ 1.6 \mathrm{bn}$ over $10$ years to employees of failed companies. 2. Companies in many countries routinely engage in such activities which means that the employees are left with unpaid entitlements. 3. Deliberate and systematic liquidation of a company to avoid liabilities and then restarting the business is called phoenixing. 4. The Australian Minister for Revenue and Services discovered in an audit that phoenixing had cost the Australian economy between $\$ 2.9 \mathrm{bn}$ and $\$ 5.1 \mathrm{bn}$ last year.