IPMAT Indore 2024 · Verbal Ability · Question 25

Step 1 — identify what the blank must continue. The paragraph narrows from AI applications \to the limits of mimicry \to “an ongoing debate about whether AI can truly possess creativity in the same sense as humans.”

The blank is the final sentence, so it must develop that debate about creativity.

Step 2 — test option (b). “AI-generated works may lack the depth, emotional connection, and unique perspectives that come with human experiences and emotions” supplies exactly the substance of the debate: why AI creativity may differ from human creativity. The hedge “may lack” preserves the “ongoing debate” framing rather than settling it. ✔

Step 3 — eliminate.

(a) Machines becoming smarter is a different concern from whether they are creative. It also introduces fear, a theme absent from the paragraph.

(c) Ethics — privacy, bias, misuse — is a new topic. Nothing in the paragraph prepares it, and it abandons creativity entirely.

(d) Speed and accuracy of calculation are the opposite pole from creativity, and the paragraph has already conceded AI’s technical competence. This would contradict the drift of the final sentence.

Answer: Option 2

Shortcut. The last sentence of the paragraph sets the topic the blank must serve. Here that is creativity, so underline it and reject every option that changes subject.

Scanning only the key noun in each option: (a) intelligence, (b) creativity, (c) ethics, (d) computation. One match, three topic shifts.

A general rule for para completion: the correct option almost never introduces a noun that has no root in the paragraph. If you have to supply a bridge yourself to make an option work, it is the wrong option.