CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC · Question 16

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Para JumblesVerbal AbilityType in the answer (TITA)Medium

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.

1. What precisely are the “unusual elements” that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience?

2. It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.

3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that “ordinary” murder doesn’t.

4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?

Answer & solution

Answer: 4123

Sentence 4 opens with the broad question: why are some crimes re-examined forever while others are forgotten?

Sentence 1 narrows it: what exactly are the 'unusual elements' that attract a certain audience?

Sentence 2 answers: it might be savage depravity, but very often it is 'the precise amount of mystery involved'.

Sentence 3 closes by developing 'mystery': unsolved and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something ordinary murder does not.

The sequence is 4123.

Shortcut: in a paragraph built on questions, go from the broadest question to the narrower one, then the answer. The closing sentence develops the key word of the answer – here, 'mystery'.

Hence, the answer is 4123.

CAT 2023 Slot 1 · VARC · Question 16

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