CAT 2022 Slot 3 · VARC · Question 6

CAT 2022 Slot 3 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. If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic the Hedgehog on a red-hot Sega Mega Drive, I would often be made to feel guilty about not going outside to “enjoy it while it lasts”.

2. My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.

3. Tales of my mum’s idyllic-sounding childhood in the Sussex countryside, where trees were climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.

4. To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat - and the feeling has stayed with me.

Answer & solution

Answer: 2314

Sentence 2 opens: the writer's mum wanted the children out of the house, in the sun.

Sentence 3 explains why: tales of her idyllic outdoor childhood were passed down like folklore.

Sentence 1 shows the effect: if the writer stayed in to read or play video games, they were made to feel guilty.

Sentence 4 concludes: to an introverted child, 'that felt like a threat' – and the feeling has stayed.

Shortcut: 'that' in 4 refers to being made to feel guilty in 1, so 1-4 is a mandatory pair at the end.

Hence, the answer is 2314.

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