CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 4

CAT 2021 Slot 2 previous year question on Para Jumbles, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Para JumblesVerbal AbilityType in the answer (TITA)Medium

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. Look forward a few decades to an invention which can end the energy crisis, change the global economy and curb climate change at a stroke: commercial fusion power.

2. To gain meaningful insights, logic has to be accompanied by asking probing questions of nature through controlled tests, precise observations and clever analysis.

3. The greatest of all inventions is the über-invention that has provided the insights on which others depend: the modern scientific method.

4. This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method; it will rest on the application of a diverse range of scientific insights, such as the process transforming hydrogen into helium to release huge amounts of energy.

Answer & solution

Answer: 3214

Sentence 3 opens: the greatest invention is the modern scientific method.

Sentence 2 explains that method: logic must be joined with probing questions of nature through tests, observation and analysis.

Sentence 1 looks ahead to a future invention – commercial fusion power.

Sentence 4 closes: 'This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method', tying fusion back to the method.

Shortcut: 'This invention' in 4 needs 1 just before it, and the passage introduces the scientific method (3) before it can depend on it.

Hence, the answer is 3214.

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