IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 25
IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Para Jumbles, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided.
Seven of the ten worst-affected countries (including India) are low- and middle-income countries.
Between 1993 and 2022, India was the sixth worst-affected country in terms of fatalities and damage sustained from extreme weather events wrought by the climate crisis.
High-income nations, whose economies are founded in the industrial era use of fossil fuels, meanwhile, insist that growing economies, especially India and China, shoulder greater responsibility.
This reinforces the developing world’s contention that it has had to bear a disproportionate burden of climate afflictions despite having contributed little to the crisis.
Answer & solution
Answer: 2143
Step 1 — find the opener. Sentence 2 is the only one that introduces its subject independently, with a full time frame (“Between 1993 and 2022”) and India’s rank. The others all depend on information established elsewhere.
Step 2 — widen the frame. Sentence 1 generalises from India to the broader group: “Seven of the ten worst-affected countries (including India)”. The parenthesis ties it directly to sentence 2, and the phrase “the ten worst-affected countries” needs sentence 2’s ranking idea to make sense.
Step 3 — draw the inference. Sentence 4 begins “This reinforces…”. The demonstrative needs an antecedent, and what it reinforces is the fact just established — that the worst-hit countries are mostly poor ones. So 4 follows 1.
Step 4 — introduce the counter-view. Sentence 3 contains “meanwhile” and presents the opposing position of high-income nations. A contrast must come after the position it contrasts with, which sentence 4 supplies (the developing world’s contention).
Step 5 — the sequence.
2\to 1\to 4\to 3
Answer: 2143
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