IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 32
IPMAT Indore 2026 previous year question on Sentence Completion and Insertion, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
The paragraph below has a sentence missing, indicated by a blank. Choose the sentence that is most logically appropriate to complete the paragraph.
Till recently, weight-loss drugs have been an elite privilege, creating a class system among those battling obesity and diabetes and setting new aspirational benchmarks for a healthy life. Manufacturers have now lowered their prices to tap into a booming health-conscious market in India. Despite repeated clarification that the efficacy of the drug is co-dependent on diet, lifestyle corrections, fitness routines and, most importantly, baseline fitness and health, the drug is seen as manna from heaven. ___________________. This leads to the individual surrendering to a false sense of well-being.
- A
Weight loss is a path to thinness, a healthier lifestyle and a more attractive image.
- B
Weight loss drugs have allowed celebrities to parade their thin age-defying bodies.
- C
The once-a-week jab is seen as a convenience obviating the need for any other action.
- D
This creates a false sense of complacency about the drugs notwithstanding their side effects
Answer & solution
Answer: Option C
Identify the gap. Before the blank: the drug’s efficacy depends on diet, lifestyle and fitness, yet it is treated as “manna from heaven”. After the blank: “This leads to the individual surrendering to a false sense of well-being.”
The blank must explain how the manna-from-heaven attitude produces that false sense — and it must be something “This” can refer to.
Why option (c) works. “The once-a-week jab is seen as a convenience obviating the need for any other action.”
That is the precise bridge: the drug is believed to remove the need for diet and exercise (picking up the previous sentence), and believing that is exactly what produces a false sense of well-being (setting up the next).
Why the others fail:
(d) is the trap. It is thematically close, but it states the consequence — “creates a false sense of complacency” — which the following sentence then states again. That makes the next sentence redundant, and it introduces side effects, never mentioned elsewhere.
(a) is a bland generalisation that explains nothing.
(b) brings in celebrities, a topic the paragraph drops entirely.
Answer: Option 3
Shortcut. When two options point the same way, prefer the one that leaves work for the following sentence. (d) pre-empts “This leads to… a false sense of well-being” and makes it repetitive; (c) supplies the cause and lets the next sentence deliver the effect.
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