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2025 Slot 1

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.

It can in fact be integrated into any function (education, medical treatment, production, punishment); it can increase the effect of this function, by being linked closely with it; it can constitute a mixed mechanism in which relations of power (and of knowledge) may be precisely adjusted, in the smallest detail, to the processes that are to be supervised; it can establish a direct proportion between ‘surplus power’ and ‘surplus production’.
It’s a case of ‘it’s easy once you’ve thought of it’ in the political sphere.
The panoptic mechanism is not simply a hinge, a point of exchange between a mechanism of power and a function; it is a way of making power relations function in a function, and of making a function function through these power relations.
In short, it arranges things in such a way that the exercise of power is not added on from the outside, like a rigid, heavy constraint, to the functions it invests, but is so subtly present in them as to increase their efficiency by itself increasing its own points of contact.

CAT 2021 Slot 3

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.

Businesses find automation, such as robotic employees, a big asset in terms of productivity and efficiency.

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.

For years politicians have promised workers that they would bring back their jobs by clamping down on trade, off shoring and immigration.

Economists, based on their research, say that the bigger threat to jobs now is not globalisation but automation.

CAT 2020 Slot 1

Tensions and sometimes conflict remain an issue in and between the 11 states in South East Asia (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam).
China's rise as a regional military power and its claims in the South China Sea have become an increasingly pressing security concern for many South East Asian states.
Since the 1990s, the security environment of South East Asia has seen both continuity and profound changes.
These concerns cause states from outside the region to take an active interest in South Asian security.

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