This presentation teaches you how to tackled an important question type in CAT english: Para-jumbles.

1. Para-Jumbles
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2. De-mystifying the
codes and tricks in
text!
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Para-Jumbles

3. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A Simple Starter:

4. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A Simple Starter:
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :

5. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A Simple Starter:
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF
3. BFCDEA 4. CDEBFA

6. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A Simple Starter:
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF
Down to these two options, can you deduce an answer from this step?

7. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A Simple Starter:
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF
It will be hard to find an answer, as this question does not have one. Both
combinations can be valid. This is the ambiguity that para-jumbles are stepped
in.

8. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF
This questions does not have a definite answer but the 3 things we are sure
about in this paragraph are:
a. Sentence A begins the paragraph.
b. BF & CDE are three pairs of sentences that occur in a set sequence.

9. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time.
B. His favorite surface is the grass.
C. He is ambidextrous.
D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand.
E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand.
F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.
Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF
The 3rd is:
This is on the basis of opening sentence and most important and
ONLY rule in PJ’s
Always move General to Specific

10. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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But what exactly is
‘move General to Specific’?

11. What are ‘Para-Jumbles’?
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But what exactly is
‘move General to Specific’?
To move General to Specific
is to move from an introductory sentence to one
that provides details.
In our case, statement A is the most general one,
Introducing Roger Federer.

12. What is a Para-Jumble?
A set of jumbled sentences that you need to straighten
Paragraph + Jumbled
Para-Jumble
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13. What is a Para-Jumble?
A set of jumbled sentences that you need to straighten
Paragraph + Jumbled
Para-Jumble
Remember, the sentences in a para-
jumble might actually be from
different paragraphs.
In brief, para-jumbles are
essentially a test of your reading
skill.
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14. Thus, Para-jumbles are
nothing else but another
method to test your
Comprehension skills.
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15. A. This is prime tiger country.
B. Late March in Ranthambore , the world is all sunshine, crisp air
and flowering tress.
C. But in the late 1990s, tigers vanished from this open , rugged
scrubland along the Aravallis.
D. Today, in an ambitious conservation step, work is on here at a
frenetic pace to bring back the Lord of the Jungle.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. CABD 4. BACD
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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:
CLUES to solve a Para-Jumble

16. A. This is prime tiger country.
B. Late March in Ranthambore , the world is all sunshine, crisp air
and flowering tress.
C. But in the late 1990s, tigers vanished from this open , rugged
scrubland along the Aravallis.
D. Today, in an ambitious conservation step, work is on here at a
frenetic pace to bring back the Lord of the Jungle.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. CABD 4. BACD
CLUE 1: We identify statement B as the opening Sentence. This helps us
Easily identify option 4 as the answer.
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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:
CLUES to solve a Para-Jumble

17. Lets have a look another example
A. The 1971 War changed the political geography of the subcontinent.
B. Despite the significance of the event, there have been no serious books
written about the conflict.
C. ‘Surrender at Dacca’ aims to fill the gap.
D. It also profoundly alerted the geo-strategic equations in South-East Asia.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. BADC 4. ADBC
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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:

18. Lets have a look another example
A. The 1971 War changed the political geography of the subcontinent.
B. Despite the significance of the event, there have been no serious books
written about the conflict.
C. ‘Surrender at Dacca’ aims to fill the gap.
D. It also profoundly alerted the geo-strategic equations in South-East Asia.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. BADC 4. ADBC
CLUE 1: We identify statement A as the opening Sentence. Another clue
Is the fact that D follows statement A.
This helps us easily identify option 4 as the answer.
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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:

19. A. Whether it is the energy crises, crime on the streets or meals lacking
nutritious balance there inevitably are those who will believe
advertising made it happen.
B. Name a natural problem and someone will certainly find a way to
blame it on advertising.
C. The era of modern consumerism sparks endless debates over
proposals to restrict advertising to children or require specific types of
information in ads for cigarettes and liquor.
D. While the problems are often easy to recognize, answer are elusive.
1. DBCA 2. BCDA 3. BACD 4. CBDA
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CLUE 2: Find a probable closing sentence:

20. A. Whether it is the energy crises, crime on the streets or meals lacking
nutritious balance there inevitably are those who will believe
advertising made it happen.
B. Name a natural problem and someone will certainly find a way to
blame it on advertising.
C. The era of modern consumerism sparks endless debates over
proposals to restrict advertising to children or require specific types of
information in ads for cigarettes and liquor.
D. While the problems are often easy to recognize, answer are elusive.
1. DBCA 2. BCDA 3. BACD 4. CBDA
CLUE 2: Were you able to identify statement D as the closing sentence?
There is only one option with D at the end, making our job easier.
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CLUE 2: Find a probable closing sentence:

21. A. People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their
mouths or an open cut.
B. At first they look like perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy.
C. A study estimates that in 1995, there were as many as 6700 reptile-
caused salmonella infections.
D. But lizards and other pets reptiles can harbor a salmonella bacteria
that makes people sick.
1. BCAD 2. BCDA 3. ACBD 4. BDCA
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CLUE 3: Locate Mandatory pairs

22. A. People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their
mouths or an open cut.
B. At first they look like perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy.
C. A study estimates that in 1995, there were as many as 6700 reptile-
caused salmonella infections.
D. But lizards and other pets reptiles can harbor a salmonella bacteria
that makes people sick.
1. BCAD 2. BCDA 3. ACBD 4. BDCA
CLUE 3: Mandatory pairs are nothing else but a given sequence of sentences
That will occur in a particular order only. In this example, DC is one such pair.
Once you identify DC, the answer can be easily spotted.
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CLUE 3: Locate Mandatory pairs

23. Let’s try our hands at
CAT Para-jumbles with
These clues in our hands.
CAT
Para-Jumbles
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24. Q1:
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means
bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity,
what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you’re really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means
destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, and depending upon
the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and
be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
1. FDEBAC 2. FCABED 3. DEBACF 4. DFEBAC
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES

25. Q1:
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means
bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity,
what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you’re really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means
destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, and depending upon
the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and
be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
1. FDEBAC 2. FCABED 3. DEBACF 4. DFEBAC
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Answer: Option 1 based on the pair BAC, using our clue 3 (Mandatory pair
formed on the basis of an implied time sequence)

26. Q2.
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval
or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too – in fact he returns to the point often – that best translators
of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere
near nurses and street-cleaners.
1. EACDB 2. ADEBC 3. EACBD 4. DCEAB
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES

27. Q2.
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval
or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too – in fact he returns to the point often – that best translators
of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere
near nurses and street-cleaners.
1. EACDB 2. ADEBC 3. EACBD 4. DCEAB
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Answer: Option 3 based on the closing sentence D, clue 2

28. Q3:
A. He felt justified in bypassing the Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representatives democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House
does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
1. CADEB 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES

29. Q3:
A. He felt justified in bypassing the Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representatives democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House
does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
1. CADEB 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Answer: Option 4 is based on the following:
1. Identify the pair DB.
2. Option 2 eliminated as cannot start with D.
3. E forms the most general statement and forms the start of the
paragraph.

30. Q4:
A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status
of the participants was unknown
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was
joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident
male.
1. BEDAC 2. DEBAC 3. BDCAE 4. BCEDA
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES

31. Q4:
A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status
of the participants was unknown
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was
joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident
male.
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Answer: Option 1 based on the following:
1. Mandatory pair DAC
2. Statement B is the generic opening sentence in this case.
1. BEDAC 2. DEBAC 3. BDCAE 4. BCEDA

32. Q5:
A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as
Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of
northern Europe had been completed.
D. Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
1. EDACB 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES

33. Q5:
A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as
Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of
northern Europe had been completed.
D. Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
1. EDACB 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Answer: Option 2 is based on the following:
1. Identify opening sentence, which is B in this case.
2. Statements E and D combine to tell us what was happening on the Eastern
front.
3. Statement A then provides a comparison for the West and C wraps it up.

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