IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 40
IPMAT Indore 2026 previous year question on Cloze Test, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
Some of the words in the paragraph below are missing. Choose the best option to complete it.
The_________of the uneducated masses can be described as a_________ faith that believes in fake Godmen based on instinct or emotion rather than on any _________ premise.
- A
hysteria; jingoistic; logical
- B
credibility; faulty; possible
- C
indifference; strong; obvious
- D
credulity; groundless; objective
Answer & solution
Answer: Option D
Blank 1 — the right noun. The quality that makes people believe in fake Godmen is credulity — a readiness to believe without evidence.
Credibility is the trap: it means believability, a quality of the claim, not of the believer. The masses here are credulous, not credible. Hysteria is about panic, indifference about not caring — neither describes belief.
Blank 2 — the kind of faith. Groundless — having no evidential basis. This fits “based on instinct or emotion”.
Blank 3 — the contrast. The structure is “based on instinct or emotion rather than on any ______ premise”, so the word must be the opposite of instinct and emotion: objective.
logical in option (a) would also work here, but (a) fails on both earlier blanks
possible and obvious do not contrast with emotion at all
Answer: Option 4
Shortcut. Credulity versus credibility decides it — one is the gullibility of the believer, the other the believability of the claim. The stem’s subject is “the uneducated masses”, that is, the believers.
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