IPMAT Indore 2022 · Verbal Ability · Question 4

Step 1 — read the setup. The sentence states two things: the company builds “a culture where everyone is welcome”, and it is “an ally to the LGBTQ community”. The blank must name the quality those two facts exemplify.

Step 2 — match. Welcoming everyone and allying with a minority community is precisely inclusivity and diversity.

Why the others fail:

(b) mindfulness and objectivity — mindfulness is about attention and presence; objectivity about impartiality. Neither follows from welcoming everyone.

(c) discriminatory practices ✘ — the opposite. Discrimination excludes; the sentence describes inclusion.

(d) discretionary practices — discretionary means “left to one’s own judgement” (as in discretionary spending). It has no connection to the sentence, and is placed here purely to be confused with discriminatory.

Answer: Option 1

Shortcut. Check polarity first. The sentence is unambiguously positive — welcome, ally, committed — so any negative option is out, which removes (c) at once.

Then note the deliberate near-pair in (c) and (d). Discriminatory (treating people unfairly) and discretionary (at one’s own discretion) differ by three letters and mean entirely different things; stacking both as options is a vocabulary trap, not a reasoning one.

The phrase “this is just one instance of” tells you the blank names a general policy, which “inclusivity and diversity” does and a single practice would not.