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Sentence Rearrangement – MBA CET questions with solutions

5 questions · CET 2025–2026 · Easy 4 · Medium 1 · Hard 0. Newest paper first. Full papers

Q186EasyCET 2026 · Attempt 2 Slot 1 · Q186

Combine the statements into one meaningful sentence:

  • Social media influences public opinion;
  • misinformation spreads rapidly;
  • users often fail to verify facts;
  • leading to widespread confusion.
  1. Social media influences public opinion leading to widespread confusion because misinformation spreads rapidly and users often fail to verify facts.
  2. Social media influences public opinion because users often verify facts even though misinformation spreads rapidly, leading to clarity.
  3. Misinformation spreads rapidly and users fail to verify facts, as social media influences confusion of public opinion leading.
  4. Public opinion influences social media because misinformation spreads slowly and users verify facts.
  5. Social media, while influencing public opinion, spreads misinformation that users verify quickly, thereby preventing widespread confusion.
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Answer: A official key

Approach: Combine without changing meaning — check each option against all four statements.

Solution: Ideas: social media influences opinion; misinformation spreads fast; users fail to verify; result — widespread confusion.
A: 'Social media influences public opinion leading to widespread confusion because misinformation spreads rapidly and users often fail to verify facts.' Keeps all four ideas with correct cause (misinformation + no verification) and effect (confusion) — A.

Why the other options are wrong:
B: Says users verify facts and ends in clarity — meaning reversed.
C: Garbled ending 'leading.' — ungrammatical.
D: Reverses influence; misinformation 'spreads slowly' — wrong.
E: Users 'verify quickly' and confusion is prevented — meaning reversed.

Cetking shortcut: Check the negatives first — any option where users verify facts is out.

Answer: A

Q187EasyCET 2026 · Attempt 2 Slot 1 · Q187

Combine the statements into one meaningful sentence:

  • The company expanded rapidly;
  • demand for its services increased;
  • operational costs rose sharply;
  • affecting overall profitability.
  1. The company expanded rapidly as demand for its services increased, but rising operational costs sharply affected overall profitability.
  2. The company expanded rapidly affecting profitability because operational costs were increased by demand.
  3. Rapid expansion affected demand while profitability increased despite rising costs.
  4. Operational costs rose sharply so the company expanded rapidly and demand increased affecting nothing.
  5. The company expanded rapidly and profitability increased although operational costs rose sharply.
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Answer: A official key

Approach: Combine preserving every idea and the logical link.

Solution: Ideas: rapid expansion; rising demand; sharp rise in operational costs; profitability affected.
A: 'The company expanded rapidly as demand for its services increased, but rising operational costs sharply affected overall profitability.' 'As' links demand to expansion; 'but' introduces the cost problem hurting profits — all ideas, correct logic.

Why the other options are wrong:
B: Demand did not increase costs per the statements; distorted causation.
C: Expansion affecting demand and profits rising — reversed.
D: Costs causing expansion and 'affecting nothing' — illogical.
E: Profitability increased — contradicts the given idea.

Answer: A

Q192MediumCET 2026 · Slot 5 · Q192

In the questions given below, a sentence has been broken down into four fragments labelled (A), (B), (C) and (D) and arranged, not necessarily in the correct order. You have to find the correct order of arrangement from the options given below. In case, the sentence is correct in its original form, please select (E) as your answer.

Ways, in particular by exploiting a “grey zone” where aggression and coercion (A)/ neither China nor Russia wants a direct military confrontation with America (B)/ that they would surely lose but they are using their growing hard power in other (C)/ work just below the level that would risk military confrontation with the West. (D)

  1. BCDA
  2. CBDA
  3. ACBD
  4. BCAD
  5. No rearrangement required
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Official CET key: D · Cetking's answer: A — see why below

Approach: Link fragments by the words at their edges.

Solution: B is the independent opening: 'Neither China nor Russia wants a direct military confrontation with America'.
C follows with 'that they would surely lose (the confrontation) but they are using their growing hard power in other' — it ends with 'in other', which needs a noun.
A supplies it: 'ways, in particular by exploiting a grey zone where aggression and coercion'.
D completes the clause: 'work just below the level that would risk military confrontation with the West.'
Order: BCAD.

Why the other options are wrong:
A BCDA — 'in other / work just below…' is broken.
B CBDA, C ACBD — cannot start with C ('that they would…') or A ('ways…'), which depend on earlier words.
E — the given order ABCD is incoherent.

Cetking shortcut: A fragment ending in a dangling word ('in other') must be followed by the fragment that starts with its noun ('ways').

Answer: D

Q194EasyCET 2025 · Slot 6 · Q194
Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph. Then answer the question that follows.
A. They had gone fishing in a creek deep inside the forest.
B. A tiger killed two fishermen in the Sunderbans last Monday.
C. But there was no trace of the missing fishermen.
D. At last the party decided to search the creeks, where they discovered their mauled half-eaten bodies.
E. The search party combed the regular fishing areas for two days.
F. When they didn’t return home in the evening, a search party was formed by the villagers.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH statement after rearrangement?
  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. F
  5. E
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Answer: C

Approach: Narrative order: event → background → trigger → action → result.

Solution: B states the incident (tiger killed two fishermen). A gives background (they had gone fishing in a creek). F: they didn't return, so a search party was formed. E: the party combed the regular areas for two days. C: 'But there was no trace' (contrast with E). D: 'At last' they searched the creeks and found the bodies. Order: B-A-F-E-C-D → 5th sentence is C.

Why the other options are wrong:
A (sentence A) is 2nd.
B (sentence B) is 1st.
D (sentence F) is 3rd.
E (sentence E) is 4th.

Cetking shortcut: 'But there was no trace' (C) must follow the search (E), and 'At last' (D) must be last — so C is 5th without solving the rest.

Answer: C

Q164EasyCET 2025 · Slot 1 · Q164
The following are jumbled up parts of a sentence. Rearrange them in a proper sequence :
P : did he realize
Q : helped by a man
R : that he had been
S : he never respected
Figure for MBA CET 2025 Slot 1 question 164
  1. PQRS
  2. SRQP
  3. SQRP
  4. PSRQ
  5. PRQS
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Answer: E

Approach: Sentence rearrangement: an inverted question order ('did he realize') + a 'that'-clause + an agent phrase + a relative clause.

Solution: P 'did he realize' (inverted order, as after 'Only later…' or 'Never…') → R 'that he had been' → Q 'helped by a man' → S '(whom) he never respected'. The full sentence: '…did he realize that he had been helped by a man he never respected.'

Why the other options are wrong:
A PQRS: 'helped by a man' cannot come before 'that he had been'.
B SRQP, C SQRP: start with 'he never respected', which has nothing to attach to and leaves 'did he realize' dangling at the end.
D PSRQ: 'did he realize he never respected that he had been' makes no sense.

Cetking shortcut: 'had been' needs a past participle next, so R→Q is a fixed pair; only E has it after P.

Answer: E

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