IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 16

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.

On the first day of January 2025, the Indian Meteorological Department [IMD] announced that 2024 was the hottest year on record. A study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water shows that nearly eight out of ten Indians live in districts that are at risk of either a flood, a cyclone, or a drought. Nearly twenty-three States in India are heatwave-prone. __________________________. In the summer of 2024, India recorded more than 44,000 cases of heatstroke and over 300 heat-related mortalities, as per the bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Water reservoirs and the energy demand that keeps India powered are impacted too.

  1. A
    According to the Council, more than 20% of the population is not affected by climate change
  2. B
    The record-breaking heat of the summer of 2024 resulted in an unpredictable and delayed monsoon
  3. C
    However, the people of these districts are given sufficient compensation for loss of life and property
  4. D
    The increasing heat stress remains a major challenge, affecting public health and economic productivity
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option D

Identify the structure. The blank sits between a statement about heatwave-prone States and two sentences of evidence: heatstroke cases and deaths (public health), then reservoirs and energy demand (economic productivity).

The blank must be a topic sentence that both halves of the evidence then support.

Why option 4 works. “The increasing heat stress remains a major challenge, affecting public health and economic productivity.”

public health → the 44,000 heatstroke cases and 300 deaths ✓

economic productivity → water reservoirs and energy demand ✓

The two named consequences are taken up, in order, by the two sentences that follow.

Why the others fail:

Option 1 twists the statistic. “Eight out of ten at risk” does not mean the other 20% are unaffected by climate change — and this adds nothing the following sentences develop.

Option 2 introduces the monsoon, which is never mentioned again.

Option 3 says people are adequately compensated — a contradiction of the paragraph’s alarmed tone, and “However” signals a contrast the passage does not make.

Answer: Option 4

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