CAT 2026 Slot 1 VARC: Para Jumble Questions with Solutions

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

1. When I ask the veteran feminist scholar and critic Sunita Rao whether she uses the term "womxn" to describe herself, she tells me, "I fought too hard for the word 'woman' to give it up now. I refer to myself as a woman."
2. Of the hundreds of thousands of Indian women active on social media, only a fraction use the newer spellings: a mere 9 percent prefer "womyn," and fewer than 2 percent recognise "womxn."
3. They have done this even though English, unlike French or Hindi, has no grammatical gender, so the change is about social meaning rather than grammar.
4. Activists seeking to make the word more inclusive, out of respect for trans and non-binary persons, have devised new spellings for it: first "womyn," and more recently "womxn."

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

1. The signature of a leader establishes a personal bond between them and the citizens; the leader does not merely offer a policy for evaluation, they suggest a physical presence, a set of daily habits expressed in a demeanour, a style of speaking, a posture.
2. Some public figures adorn their official communications with a personal logo; this presupposes that branding has a power to persuade which must be analysed.
3. Inasmuch as branding is a shorthand of ideology and a compression of an 'inexpressible' collective identity, it constitutes an anti-rational weapon and tends to sweep away 'policy' (that is to say a body of arguments and solutions) to the advantage of a 'way of being', a socio-cultural status.
4. Branding tends to restore the charismatic nature of authority, whose bureaucratic essence has been disrupted by institutional procedures and the rule of committees (the populist Right seems to use it more than the technocratic Left).