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CAT 2018 Slot 2 — VARC Question 28

Mixed PracticeEasy

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.

  1. Self-management is thus defined as the ‘individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic condition’.
  2. Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care for as long as possible.
  3. Having control means, among other things, that patients themselves perform self-management activities.
  4. Supporting people in decisions and actions that promote self-management is called self-management support requiring a cooperative relationship between the patient, the family, and the professionals.

Answer & solution

Correct answer: 2314

Answer: 2314

Solution

Easy

For a four-sentence jumble, locate the opener (a sentence that needs no prior context), then chain the rest using mandatory links — pronouns, repeated key terms and the natural “idea → definition → extension” progression.

1

Opener. Sentence 2 introduces the subject from scratch: “Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care.” It needs no earlier sentence, so 2 starts.

2

Mandatory pair 2–3. Sentence 3 picks up the key phrase: “Having control means … that patients themselves perform self-management activities.” It directly defines the “control” of sentence 2 and introduces “self-management.” So 2 → 3.

3

Definition then extension: 3–1–4. Sentence 1 begins “Self-management is thus defined as …” — the “thus” and the formal definition flow straight from the term just raised in 3, so 3 → 1. Sentence 4 then extends the idea to supporting self-management (“self-management support”), a natural closing development. So 1 → 4.

The coherent order is 2314.

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