CAT 1999 — VARC Question 5
Directions: Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
- Since then, intelligence tests have been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average or bright children, so that special education can be provided to the dull.
- In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age.
- Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what an average child of a certain age can do …. What a five-year-old can answer, but a four-year-old cannot, for instance.
- Binet developed the first set of such tests in the early 1900s to find out which children in school needed special attention.
- Intelligence can be measured by tests.
Answer & solution
- A
CDABE
- B
DECAB
EDACB
- D
CBADE
(c) EDACB is the correct answer choice.
DA is a mandatory pair, as ‘in the early 1990s’ in D links chronologically with ‘since then’ in A links chronologically with ‘in the early 1900s’ in D.
Furthermore, D refers to ‘such tests’ and, therefore cannot start the paragraph.
CB also emerges as a closely-linked pair. ‘In other words’ in B summarizes succinctly the idea introduced in C.
Other options do not meet all the above requirements and hence do not flow logically from start to finish.