IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 20

Blank 3 is the easiest — start there. The list reads “____, thought, and moral agency”. These are all high-level mental capacities, so the blank must be one too. Consciousness fits perfectly; deconstruction, differentiation and calibration are processes, not capacities, and sit oddly beside “moral agency”.

Blank 1 — the idiom is premised on (= based on). Dependent on is also idiomatic but weaker; built on would need “upon” to read naturally here; interdependent on is not standard English.

Blank 2 — the phrase is “larger-scale structural ____ of that material”, and the sentence says personhood arises from it. Organisation is right: structure emerging from arrangement.

Note that option 1’s disorganisation reverses the sense entirely — personhood does not arise from material falling apart.

Why the others fail: each breaks down at blank 3, and options 1 and 2 also fail at blank 2.

Answer: Option 4 — premised; organisation; consciousness