Ordering of Sentences Questions

• Para-jumble (how to use a dictionary effectively): Reorder the sentences to show a practical habit—from challenge to action to memory to motivation. S1 = "The dictionary is the best friend of your task." S6 = "Soon you will realize that this is an exciting task." Between S1 and S6, arrange the fragments into a usable method: P = "That may not be possible always." Q = "It is wise to look it up immediately." R = "Then it must be firmly written on the memory and traced at the first opportunity." S = "Never allow a strange word to pass unchallenged." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (Bhagavadgita on human fulfillment): Reorder the sentences to move from the threefold nature of man to the condition for true authenticity. S1 = "The Bhagavadgita recognises the nature of man and the needs of man." S6 = "A man who does not harmonise them is not truly human." Between S1 and S6, order the fragments into a coherent argument: P = "All these three aspects constitute the nature of man." Q = "It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one, and a spiritual one." R = "More than all, it must be a spiritual experience." S = "Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason and his ethical conscience." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (train compartment quarrel): Reorder the sentences to show how a crowded coach and a window dispute ruined the narrator's sleep. S1 = "I usually sleep quite well in the train, but this time I slept only a little." S6 = "It was shut all night, as usual." Between S1 and S6, sequence the fragments by cause and effect: P = "Most people wanted it shut and I wanted it open." Q = "As usual, I got angry about the window." R = "The quarrel left me completely upset." S = "There were too many people and huge luggage all around." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (William Golding brief biography): Reorder the sentences to present key life events in chronological order to the novel's breakthrough. S1 = "In 1934, William Golding published a small volume of poems." S6 = "But Lord of the Flies, which came out in 1954, was welcomed as "a most absorbing and instructive tale."" Between S1 and S6, arrange the fragments chronologically: P = "During World War II (1939–45) he joined the Royal Navy and was present at the sinking of the Bismarck." Q = "He returned to teaching in 1945 and gave it up in 1962, and is now a full-time writer." R = "In 1939, he married and started teaching at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury." S = "At first his novels were not accepted." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (nation-building agenda): Reorder the sentences to frame the future task, define the endeavor, list the battles, and state the goal. S1 = "The future beckons to us." S6 = "There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full." Between S1 and S6, build the argument in purposeful steps: P = "In fact, we have hard work ahead." Q = "Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?" R = "We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease." S = "It will be to bring freedom and opportunity to the common man." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (universities and funding): Reorder the sentences to argue why state support is essential, contrasting public purpose with commercial logic. S1 = "Most of the universities in the country are now facing a financial crisis." S6 = "The Government should realise this before it is too late." Between S1 and S6, order the fragments into a policy argument: P = "Cost–benefit yardsticks should not be applied in the case of universities." Q = "The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue for long." R = "Universities cannot be equated with commercial enterprises." S = "Proper development of universities and colleges must be ensured." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (public speaking growth): Reorder the sentences to show that confidence is learnable, outline how to think, and explain who can develop it. S1 = "While talking to a group, one should feel self-confident and courageous." S6 = "Any man can develop his capacity if he has the desire to do so." Between S1 and S6, organize the coaching points: P = "Nor is it a gift bestowed by providence on only a few." Q = "One should also learn how to think calmly and clearly." R = "It is like the ability to play golf." S = "It is not as difficult as most men imagine." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (sentence arrangement): Reorder the labeled parts to form a coherent paragraph about a government-imposed ceiling on urban property. S1 = "A ceiling on urban property." S6 = "since their value would exceed the ceiling fixed by the government." Between S1 and S6, place the four fragments in a grammatically correct and logically flowing order: P = "No mill-owner could own factories or mills or plants." Q = "And mass circulation papers" R = "Would mean that" S = "No press magnate could own printing presses." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (sentence arrangement): Arrange the sentences to build a clear argument about how to grow old wisely, linking dangers to the recommended mindset. S1 = "The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention." S6 = "This is not always easy one's own past is gradually increasing weight." Between S1 and S6, place the fragments in a logically persuasive order: P = "One of these is undue absorption in the past." Q = "One's thought must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done." R = "Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age." S = "It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friend who are dead." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (narrative voice of an elephant): Reorder the sentences to explain why the elephant keeps flapping its big ears all day. S1 = "I keep on flapping my big ears all day." S6 = "Am I not a smart, intelligent elephant?" Between S1 and S6, arrange the following in a coherent, child-friendly mini-narrative: P = "They also fear that I will flip them all away." Q = "But children wonder why I flap them so." R = "I flap them so to make sure they are safely there on either side of my head." S = "But I know what I am doing." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (mythology narrative): Arrange the events about King Shantanu and the fisher girl into a coherent story arc with cause–effect links. S1 = "Once King Shantnu met a young and beautiful fisher girl." S6 = "Devavrata, the King's son, asked him the reason of his sadness." Between S1 and S6, order the fragments to preserve motivation and consequence: P = "He went to the fisherman and asked him for her hand in marriage." Q = "The King was extremely sad and returned to his palace." R = "He fell in love with the fisher girl." S = "The fisherman agreed to it condition that the son of his daughter should be heir to the throne of Hastinapur." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (what true religion means): Reorder the sentences to contrast ritualism with inner transformation and conclude with the hallmark of authenticity. S1 = "Religion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity." S6 = "A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred." Between S1 and S6, arrange the fragments logically: P = "It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us." Q = "It is not a question of ceremonial piety." R = "Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man." S = "It is the remaking of your own self, the transformation of your nature." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (political vs cultural subjection): Arrange the sentences to move from political restraint to the subtler cultural domination and its psychological effect. S1 = "We speak today of self-determination in politics." S6 = "Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start." Between S1 and S6, order the fragments coherently: P = "So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to bear it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit." Q = "Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good." R = "There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another." S = "Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (fable sequence): Arrange the sentences to narrate how the ant fell into the river and who noticed it first. S1 = "Once upon a time an ant lived on the bank of river." S6 = "She was touched." Between S1 and S6, put the events in natural story order: P = "The dove saw the ant struggling in water in a helpless condition." Q = "All its efforts to come up is failed." R = "One day it suddenly slipped in to water." S = "A dove lived in the tree on the bank not far from the spot." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (metaphor & chronology): Arrange the sentences to track Madras’s December music season as a tropical cyclone, moving from build-up to downpour to aftermath. S1 = "The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone." S6 = "Many a hastily planted shrub gets washed away in the storm." Between S1 and S6, place the four fragments in the most coherent storm-like progression: P = "A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings." Q = "It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight." R = "Thick clouds of expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements." S = "At the end of it, one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists, seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-rooted trees." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (Hardy–Ramanujan anecdote): Arrange the sentences to recreate the famous taxi-cab story, moving from Hardy’s awkward greeting to Ramanujan’s punchline and its mathematical significance. S1 = "There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney." S6 = "It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes." Between S1 and S6, order the fragments into a coherent narrative: P = "No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least." Q = "Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress." R = "It was 1729." S = "The best he could do, as he got to the bedside, was "I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number."" Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (politeness across cultures): Arrange the sentences to argue that politeness is universal though its expressions vary by country. S1 = "Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race." S6 = "In any case, we should not mock at others habits." Between S1 and S6, place the fragments to show universality → examples → explanation: P = "One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows." Q = "A man of another country will not to do so." R = "It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth." S = "Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (sentence arrangement): Arrange P–Q–R–S to complete the explanatory paragraph about humanity’s use of energy from the sun and the emergence of a new energy source. S1 = "Throughout history, humans have used energy from the sun." P = "Today, when we burn wood or use electric current, we are drawing on energy." S = "This energy has ultimately come from the sun." R = "All our ordinary life depends on energy from the sun." Q = "However, we now have a new supply of energy." S6 = "This energy comes from inside atoms." Between S1 and S6, place P–Q–R–S in a logically flowing order that builds cause and effect. Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (sentence arrangement): Arrange P–Q–R–S to complete the explanation about weather-vanes, barometers, and wind direction. S1 = "This weather-vane often tops a church spire, tower, or high building." S = "Just as the barometer only tells us the pressure of air, the weather-vane tells us the direction of wind." P = "They are only wind-vanes." Q = "Neither alone can tell us what the weather will be." R = "They are designed to point to the direction from which the wind is coming." S6 = "The weather-vane can, however, give us some indication of other aspects." Between S1 and S6, place P–Q–R–S in a coherent scientific order. Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
• Para-jumble (sentence arrangement): Arrange P–Q–R–S to explain how a new word gets into the dictionary from collection to definition. S1 = "But how does a new word get into the dictionary?" P = "When a new dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically arranged citation slips for a particular word." Q = "The dictionary makers notice the usage and make a note of it on a citation slip." R = "The moment a new word is coined, it usually enters the spoken language." S = "The word then passes from the realm of hearing (speech) to the realm of writing." S6 = "He sorts the slips according to their grammatical function and carefully writes a definition." Between S1 and S6, place P–Q–R–S in the prescribed editorial sequence. Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.