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. Moderate
LGBTQ Parajumbles Verbal CAT 2025 Slot 3 Question
1. When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, ‘I worked too hard for the “a” in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.’
2. Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.
3.They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.
4. More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.
Answer & Explanation
Correct Answer: 4312
Explanation: The paragraph discusses the emergence and reception of the term Latinx. Sentence 4 introduces Latinx as a recently devised gender-neutral term. Sentence 3 explains the linguistic reasoning behind this attempt. Sentence 1 follows with a personal rejection of the term by an LGBTQ activist. Sentence 2 concludes by showing, through data, that Latinx is rarely used.
Why other options wrong: Any order starting with 1 or 3 refers to Latinx without first introducing it. Orders starting with 2 open with statistics before context. Placing sentence 2 in the middle disrupts closure since data works best as a conclusion.
Elections based Parajumbles Verbal CAT 2025 Slot 3 Question
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. Moderate
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 & Explanation
Correct Option: 2143
Rationale: Sentence 2 introduces the subject of candidates using portraits and signals an examination of photography’s influence. Sentence 1 explains how the portrait creates a personal link and a “manner of being.” Sentence 4 describes the consequence of this link, restoring a paternalistic relationship in politics. Sentence 3 provides the theoretical explanation, describing photography as an anti-intellectual tool that shifts focus from politics to personality.
Why other options wrong: Other orders either explain effects before introducing the subject or place abstract theory before the example it is meant to explain.
Difficulty: Medium
