IPMAT Indore 2024 · Verbal Ability · Question 42

Step 1 — find the opener. Sentence 3 introduces both the topic (lightning deaths) and the speaker (“The Minister for Disaster Management”, with the full designation). Sentence 4 refers to “The Minister” with no designation — so 4 must come after 3, which introduces him.

Sentence 3 also supplies the statistic that gives the paragraph its reason to exist.

Step 2 — the demand. Sentence 2 is the public’s reaction to those deaths: a demand for compensation. It follows naturally from the death toll.

Step 3 — the response. Sentence 4 begins “The Minister responded” — a response requires something to respond to, which is the demand in sentence 2. This is a mandatory pair: $2 $.

Step 4 — the closing qualification. Sentence 1 begins “Farmers, however, … ignore the warnings”. It qualifies the minister’s claim that preventive information is being distributed: the information exists, but the people most at risk disregard it. That irony can only land after 4.

The sequence:

\$3\to 2\to 4\to 1$

Answer: 3241

Shortcut. Two signals do all the work.

Full name before short name. “The Minister for Disaster Management” (3) must precede the bare “The Minister” (4). This alone fixes 3 before 4.

“Responded” demands a prior demand. That makes $2 $ an unbreakable pair.

With 3 first and the 2–4 block locked, only sentence 1 is left — and its “however” marks it as a qualification, which belongs at the end.

Generalise signal 1: in any jumble involving a named person or organisation, the sentence with the full designation comes before the one using a short form or a pronoun. It is the single most reliable ordering clue in this question type.