IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 33
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.
Writing has long been a primary tool for thinking. ___________________. The articulation of thought, a foundational human skill, risks atrophy due to the deployment of AI. ‘Help’ from AI is a gentle, persistent pressure removing idiosyncrasies and pushing writers towards a standardised, middle-of-the-road voice. In a manner of speaking, the originality of the writer’s voice is lost. Hence, the unique signature of the writer is eroded by an algorithm.
- A
For writers, the help provided by AI is essential for the formation of lucid thoughts.
- B
Thinking is a process expressed best by smooth, frictionless prose assisted by AI.
- C
When that process is delegated to an outside agency, thinking itself becomes superficial.
- D
Without human effort, however, difficult concepts cannot be easily communicated to the reader.
Answer & solution
Answer: Option C
Identify the gap. The opening sentence establishes writing as a tool for thinking. The sentence after the blank warns that “the articulation of thought… risks atrophy” because of AI.
The blank must carry us from “writing is how we think” to “that capacity is now at risk”.
Why option (c) works. “When that process is delegated to an outside agency, thinking itself becomes superficial.”
“That process” points directly back to writing-as-thinking in sentence 1 ✓
“delegated to an outside agency” introduces AI without naming it, which the next sentence then names ✓
“thinking becomes superficial” is precisely the atrophy the next sentence describes ✓
Why the others fail:
(a) and (b) are both pro-AI and contradict the entire paragraph, which concludes that the writer’s signature is eroded.
(d) is negative about AI in the right direction but concerns communication to the reader, whereas the paragraph is about the writer’s own thinking and voice.
Answer: Option 3
Shortcut. Check the paragraph’s polarity first — it is uniformly critical of AI, so two options go immediately. Between the survivors, (c) contains the demonstrative “that process”, which ties straight back to the opening sentence; (d) has no such link.
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