IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 13

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Sentence Completion and Insertion, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Sentence Completion and InsertionVerbal AbilityMultiple choiceMedium

Choose the sentence that best fills the blank in the passage.

A report published in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology has called for an overhaul of our understanding of obesity. An over-reliance on using Body Mass Index [BMI] as a metric has the peculiar effect of leading to both underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis of the condition. __________________________. BMI does not give accurate information about how fat is distributed in an individual’s body. It frequently fails to capture the true state of health of an individual. A person’s BMI may indicate they are “obese”, but their organs and bodily functions may be absolutely normal. Every individual is a unique constellation — not only of genes and other biological variables, but also socio-economic conditions and habits.

  1. A
    Obesity is the end result of multiple factors, and BMI can pinpoint the cause of the problem.
  2. B
    Further, much of the information on diabetes, obesity or BMI available on social media is misleading.
  3. C
    BMI reading can help the doctor to accurately prescribe the appropriate dosage to reduce fat.
  4. D
    This is because BMI does not provide a reliable picture of health, nor any direct measure of fat.
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option D

Work out what the blank has to do. The sentence before it states a problem (BMI causes both under- and overdiagnosis). The sentences after it elaborate: BMI says nothing about fat distribution, and it misses true health status.

So the blank must explain why the problem occurs, and introduce the two threads that follow.

Why option 4 works. “This is because BMI does not provide a reliable picture of health, nor any direct measure of fat.”

“This is because” explicitly answers the preceding sentence ✓

“no direct measure of fat” → picked up by “how fat is distributed” ✓

“reliable picture of health” → picked up by “fails to capture the true state of health” ✓

The two halves of the inserted sentence are expanded, in order, by the two sentences that follow. That is a decisive structural match.

Why the others fail:

Option 1 says BMI can pinpoint the cause — directly contradicted by everything that follows.

Option 2 introduces social media, a topic that appears nowhere else in the paragraph.

Option 3 praises BMI’s clinical usefulness, again contradicting the criticism around it.

Answer: Option 4

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