IPMAT Indore 2022 · Verbal Ability · Question 33

Step 1 — find the opener. Sentence 1 states the fact that everything else reacts to: “The Central African Republic has approved Bitcoin as an official currency.” It names the country and the decision, with no backward reference.

The others are all reactions: 4 says “this move”, 3 says “Others claim”, and 2 says “this”.

Step 2 — the first reaction. Sentence 4: “Economists criticised this move…” This move refers directly to the approval in sentence 1. A mandatory pair: 1\to 4.

Step 3 — the second reaction. Sentence 3: “Others claim…” The word Others requires a first group to have spoken already — the economists of sentence 4. So 4\to 3.

Step 4 — the summary. Sentence 2: “Experts foresee that this will damage the environment as well as the economy.” This gathers both strands:

the economy — the financial-stability risk from sentence 4;

the environment — the heavy electricity use from sentence 3.

A sentence that combines the two preceding concerns must come last.

The sequence:

1\to 4\to 3\to 2

Answer: 1432

Shortcut. “Others claim” is the single most useful word in this jumble. Others presupposes a first group, so sentence 3 can never be second — it must follow whichever sentence introduces the first set of critics, namely 4.

Then sentence 2 is identifiable as the closer by its scope: it names both the environment and the economy, the two concerns raised separately in 3 and 4. A sentence that summarises two earlier strands belongs at the end.

Across all five jumbles in this paper, the opener was found the same way: the sentence with no backward-pointing word. That one reflex places the first sentence correctly every time, and the pronouns usually chain the rest together.