IPMAT Indore 2022 · Verbal Ability · Question 13

IPMAT Indore 2022 previous year question on Para Completion, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Para CompletionVerbal AbilityMultiple choiceMedium

The paragraph given below has a sentence missing, indicated by a blank. From the choices given below, choose the most appropriate sentence to fill the blank.

This winter, I wish to go to the beaches for a holiday. I think I will go to Goa, India’s most well-known beach holiday destination. It is about 600 km away from Mumbai, so reaching there is not a major problem. ___________________________. The major Goan beaches are tourist attractions and have some good beach-view hotels and plenty of shops selling touristy things such as beach robes, hats, jewellery, bags, and more.

  1. A
    There are buses that ply at night, there are both day and night trains, and one can always hire a car and reach there in comfort in about 10 hours.
  2. B
    A great getaway place, it offers an interesting variety of food, sightseeing options, flea markets, and some wonderful Indo-Portuguese buildings.
  3. C
    One of the great things about a holiday in Goa is that we can be as lazy as we want, relaxing all day, sunbathing, sipping juice, and trying out different Goan tidbits.
  4. D
    Some major beaches are Baga, Bogmalo, Candolim, Calangute, and Dona Paula, where adventure sports activities like water skiing and scuba diving are organized.
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option A

Step 1 — read the sentence immediately before the blank.

“It is about 600 km away from Mumbai, so reaching there is not a major problem.”

That is a claim about travel, and it is asserted without support. The blank must justify it.

Step 2 — test option (a).

“There are buses that ply at night, there are both day and night trains, and one can always hire a car and reach there in comfort in about 10 hours.”

Three modes of transport and a journey time — precisely the evidence the preceding claim needs. ✔

Step 3 — eliminate.

(b) Food, sightseeing, flea markets and architecture — attractions, not access. It leaves “reaching there is not a major problem” unsupported.

(c) How relaxing the holiday is — again about the stay, not the journey.

(d) Names specific beaches and adventure sports. This is closest in topic to the following sentence (“The major Goan beaches are tourist attractions…”), which would make it redundant — and it still ignores the travel claim.

Answer: Option 1

Shortcut. Find the unsupported assertion and support it. “Reaching there is not a major problem” is a claim about access, so the blank must be about transport. Only one option mentions buses, trains or cars.

You can answer this by keyword alone, in a few seconds, without reading the options in full.

Option (d) illustrates the redundancy trap: it talks about the major beaches, which is exactly what the sentence after the blank goes on to do. An option that duplicates the following sentence is wrong even when it fits the topic.

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