Para-jumbles are a very important topic of CET SNAP CAT verbal section. It includes jumbled sentences that form a meaningful paragraph which when unjumbled. There is no set strategy to solve para-jumbles, but with good tricks and some practice, you can score well in this section.
ParaJumbles Shortcut 1: using Order & Options
1). If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting.
2). Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people’s pain and suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
3). If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
4). Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive tendencies.
A) 4123 B) 1423 C) 2431 D) 3241 E) 2134
Answer Shortcut for ParaJumbles 1 Order & Options G Strategy
Sentence 2 has Marx (short Form) and sentence 3 has Karl Marx (Full form). So 3 will come before 2. Now in given options A and B and C, we can clearly see that 2 is placed before 3 and hence we reject option A, B and C which leaves us with only option D which is the correct option.
ParaJumbles Shortcut 2: Ideal Start & Options
1). Electronic transactions are happening in closed group networks and Internet. Electronic commerce is one of the most important aspects of Internet to emerge.
2). Cash transactions offer both privacy and anonymity as it does not contain information that can be used to identify the parties nor the transaction history.
3). To support e-commerce, we need effective payment systems and secure communication channels and data integrity.
4). The whole structure of traditional money is built on faith and so will electronic money have to be.
5). Moreover, money is worth what it is because we have come to accept it.
A) 25413
B) 12534
C) 45123
D) 43521
Answer ParaJumbles Shortcut 2: Ideal Start & Options
This paragraph is about cash transaction vis-a-vis electronic commerce. The observation on cash transaction have to precede e-com .
Therefore, the paragraph must start with 2. Thus option A is the correct answer
ParaJumbles Shortcut 3: Pairing
1). Merchants soon grew rich as the demand for products increased.
2). Trade started from person to person but grew to involve different towns in different lands.
3). Eventually, people got a greater variety of things to choose from.
4). People found work in transporting the goods or selling them.
A) 2413
B) 2143
C) 4123
D) 4213
Answer ParaJumbles Shortcut 3: Pairing
Before, trade started to grow internationally; it must have started in its basic form as selling of goods from one person to another. Hence 2 would come before 4.
Obviously when trade grew to involve different lands then merchants would grow rich and also people will get a variety of choices. Therefore, 2413.
ParaJumbles Shortcut 4: Look for Clues
1). The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question: ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
2). So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
3). Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
4). However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
A) 4123
B) 1342
C) 3214
D) 4213
Answer ParaJumbles Shortcut 4: Look for Clues
The clue to this question comes from the word ‘calculable’ in sentence 2: So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
How does something become ‘calculable’? Sentence 1 gives the answer through the phrase ‘clearly defined theory’. (Clonazepam)
Something becomes calculable when it is clearly defined in theory. No other sentence could give answers to ‘calculable’.
Therefore, the link 12 was clearly marked. The link 12 is present in option A only Therefore option A is the answer.
Tricks to successfully solve Para-Jumbles
1. IZZAT! Understand the central theme:
The best way to solve Para jumbles is by developing high reading speed and by scanning all the options available. Try getting the feel of what the passage is talking about. This will keep you in the right direction.
2. Keep a check on chronology of events:
In a few questions, the events mentioned in the paragraph can be arranged in a chronological order and it becomes easier to logically construct a paragraph. The events are usually mentioned in ascending or descending order of their occurrence.
3. Keep reviewing the options:
Now, suppose you have 4 sentences A B C D. Based on chronological order, you know that A and B will appear in the order BA. Now scan the available options and match:
a) DABC (b) ACDB (c) CBAD (d) DBAC.
Now you know that the correct answer is either (c) or (d). Choose the best option out of these two.
4. Look for articles
You can spot 2 types of articles in parajumbles
Definite articles like “the”
Indefinite articles like “a and an”
‘The’ is generally used when some person/place or event is being talked about for the second or 3rd time. First time introductions are usually made with the help of ‘a/an’. So, the sentence containing ‘the’ is most likely to come after the sentence containing a/an.
5. Look out for pronouns
Pronouns like he, she, they, it, them, their, him, her, can be easily spotted in parajumbled sentences. Such pronouns are always used when the person being talked about has already been introduced. So sentence with pronoun is most likely NOT the first sentence.
6. Look out for transition words
When you see a transition word in a sentence, be 90% sure that this sentence is not the first sentence.
Transition words are used in connecting a particular idea to the next. Here is a list for your reference:
also
again
as well as
after all
for example
for instance
in short
likewise otherwise
subsequently
hence
simultaneously
7. Look out for abbreviations
Short forms or abbreviations trick is useful in paragraphs where both these things are present. In cases of para jumbles, where both full form and abbreviations are present in different sentences, in that case the sentence containing the full form will come before the sentence containing the abbreviation.
Here is an example:
- Post offices and Public sector banks could supplement micro-credit institutions in this regard.
- They are trusted institutions, and have already built up credit and savings channels for the poor.
- In a recent paper, Wouter Van Ginneken of the International Labor Organization has argued that micro-finance institutions could play an important role in providing social security.
- To overcome this weakness, Ginneken suggests that micro-credit organizations should outsource the insurance part of their business.
- But one problem is that most micro-credit institutions are small and lack expertise in the insurance business.
Solution:
Sentence C should be the opening sentence because it clearly mentions the name of the person, Wouter Van Ginneken and his argument.
It is essential to note that the Para Jumble is about the institutions, not Ginneken.
Hence sentence B with pronoun ‘they’ referring to the institutions should come after C. They go on to give more information about micro-finance institutions.
Sentences A and D talk about some solutions.
So sentence E which poses the problem should come before them.
Between A and D, statement D will clearly come first, because it is a suggestion for solving the problem and the method of solving it is in sentence A.
Therefore the order is C-B-E-D-A.
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