CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 1
CAT 2024 Slot 2 previous year question on Odd One Out, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
1. The UK is a world leader in developing cultivated meat and the approval of a cultivated pet food is an important milestone.
2. If we're to realize the full potential benefits of cultivated meat the government must invest in research and infrastructure.
3. The first UK applications for cultivated meat produced for humans remain under assessment with the Food Standards Agency.
4. The previous UK government had been looking at fast-tracking the approval of cultivated meat for human consumption.
5. It underscores the potential for new innovation to help reduce the negative impacts of intensive animal agriculture.
Answer & solution
Answer: 4
The paragraph is about the approval of cultivated pet food in the UK and what it means.
Sentence 1 opens: the UK leads in cultivated meat, and the approval of a cultivated pet food is a milestone.
Sentence 5 follows: 'It underscores the potential...' – 'It' refers to the approval in sentence 1.
Sentence 3 moves from pet food to food for humans: the first UK applications for human cultivated meat are still being assessed.
Sentence 2 closes with what must happen next: the government must invest to realise the full benefits. The sequence 1-5-3-2 holds together.
Sentence 4 is about the previous government's plans to fast-track approval. It looks backward to a past policy, while the paragraph is about the present milestone and the way forward; nothing else in the set refers to the previous government.
Shortcut: check each sentence's time frame. When four sentences describe the present and the future, a sentence about a past government's plans is the likely outlier.
Hence, the answer is 4.
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