CAT 2025 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 6

CAT 2025 Slot 2 previous year question on Odd One Out, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Odd One OutVerbal AbilityType in the answer (TITA)Medium

Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. Sporting a copper-coloured pixie cut and a pair of pink feather antlers, Torres himself resembles a child's doodle.
  2. His casual millennial delivery, peppered with "um"s and "ah"s, makes surreal concepts sound like items on a brunch menu.
  3. Though he may have failed so far in his colour-scouting mission (he hasn't yet found a new one, he admits), this hour leaves you tickled pink.
  4. Like his previous show, My Favourite Shapes, this is an hour of sit-down comedy aided by an overhead camera which relays Torres's theories – illustrated with crayon squiggles – on to a screen behind him.
  5. His inquisitive mind produces interconnected ideas about Catholicism, the blandness of Pixar and what orange sounds like, while his insights train us to spot "highly purple behaviour".
Answer & solution

Answer: 3

This is a review of a comedy show. Four sentences describe the show and the performer; find the one that does something else.

Sentence 4 sets the scene – an hour of sit-down comedy with an overhead camera relaying Torres's crayon-illustrated theories onto a screen. It names the show and the format, so it opens.

Sentence 1 describes how Torres looks: pixie cut, pink feather antlers, resembling a child's doodle. Description of the performer follows naturally from description of the set-up.

Sentences 5 and 2 both describe the material and its delivery – the interconnected ideas about Catholicism, Pixar and what orange sounds like, and the casual millennial delivery that makes surreal concepts sound ordinary. 4152 reads as a coherent review.

Sentence 3 is a verdict, not a description. It refers to a 'colour-scouting mission' that no other sentence sets up, and it ends the review with 'this hour leaves you tickled pink'. With no sentence establishing the mission, it cannot join the paragraph.

Shortcut: a concluding verdict is a tempting closer, but it only belongs if its content is prepared earlier. Check whether the verdict's key phrase – here 'colour-scouting mission' – appears anywhere in the other sentences. It does not, so sentence 3 is out.

Hence, the answer is 3.

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