Sunday, September 27, 2009

CAT Questions Answers: Sentence Rearrangement

Questions on Sentence Rearrangement in CAT require the students to have a good knowledge of Transitions, Linking Words, Pronouns, Tenses and Sentence Structure.

A typical question on Sentence arrangement consists of an opening and a closing sentence with four other sentences in between which have to be logically arranged. The student has to pick up a grammatically correct sentence arrangement from a set of 5 choices.

All doubts relating to questions on Sentence Rearrangement can be put as comments to this post.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A. And, after more than two decades of work, the committee is ready to present a core set of 5 universal accounting standards.
B. But each country now sets its own accounting rules, and what may look like profits at a bank in Kaula Lumpur may turn into losses at a bank in Kansas City with the same numbers but using American accounting rules.
C. The International Accounting Standards Committee, a group of accountants and executives from around the world, has set out to change that.
D. Life would be simpler if all companies, whether in Thailand, Tanzania or Tennessee, spoke the same financial language.

Out of the five given choices, the best way to arrange these in a coherent paragraph, is:
1. ABCD
2. DBCA
3. BDCA
4. ABDC
5. DBAC

nancy said...

Simple to solve, questions on Sentence Rearrangement are easy to solve if you look for the right clues.
On a quick glance, four clues can be easily picked up, "And" in (A), "But" in (B), "that" in (C) and "simpler", a comparative Adjective in (D).
The clue lies in the sequence BC that must be placed together. This leaves a choice between option 1 and option 2. the paragraph can’t end in D, which means the correct answer is option 2.

Note: In such questions please don't waste time in testing all the answer choices.