CAT Parajumbles Questions for Practice with Solutions and (PDFs)

Prepare for CAT parajumble questions with these sample practice questions, based on previous years’ exam papers. Also get downloadable PDFs of CAT VARC practice questions with solutions. 

Prepare for CAT parajumble

CAT parajumble questions are often tricky. They are not easy to crack, but if one develops the right approach to see the sequence of sentences, they can crack it accurately in no time. CAT parajumble questions are like puzzles. Just like in puzzles you have to put the pieces in an order to complete the picture, in parajumbles you have to arrange information is an order that a complete story is created.

The best way of preparation of para jumbles for CAT is practice. There are usually 4-6 parajumble questions in CAT and thus it forms an important part of the CAT exam syllabus.

If you are preparing for CAT 2026 exam, here are a few CAT parajumble questions for practice with solutions. Also shared in this article are downloadable PDFs for CAT parajumble questions and other topics of VARC.  

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CAT Parajumble Questions for Practice with Solutions

Question 1. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. What has only recently emerged, though, is that children's conviction about their own capacity to control what happens in their lives and this knowledge suggests a window of opportunity for inoculating them against depression before it strikes.
2. Just like adults, sceptical methods of deciphering defeats appear to take care of the feeling of helplessness and misery at the heart of youngsters' depression.
3. That individuals who are as of now discouraged think in these manners have long been known.
4. One line of evidence comes from studies of children's belief about their own ability to control what happens in their lives- for example, being able to change things for the better.
5. 4213
6. 1234
7. 2314
8. 3124

Solution: is C: ‘think in these manners’ connects 3rd with 2^nd sentence. ‘thought’ of 1^st sentence links it to 3rd. One line of evidence comes from 4^th sentence which connects to 'suggests' of 1. This brings us to the correct sequence which can only be 2314.

Question 2. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. This harms aquatic ecosystems, human health and also pollutes major sources of freshwater.
   2. Harmful chemicals from pesticides not only pollute the soil and water around the farms but also reach rivers and oceans, a new study established.
   3. Globally, around 70,000 tonnes of potentially harmful chemicals find their way into aquifers every year, the report published in the journal Nature showed.
   4. The findings are based on an analysis of the geographical distribution of 92 common pesticides.
2. 4213
3. 2134
4. 2314
5. 3124

Solution is option B: The use of pronoun ‘this’ in the beginning of the first sentence gives a hint. 21 is a link here. Only A and B have this link. 4 is more of a concluding sentence. Hence, 2134 is the logical sequence.

Question 3. The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and choose the correct option.

1. In Tokyo, they built an expressway linking the international airport in Haneda to the centre, and widened some of the city’s major arteries.
   2. These infrastructure improvements helped to bring about the Japanese economic miracle over the next couple of decades.
   3. Tokyo 2020 was supposed to be a great economic stimulus, replicating the achievements of Tokyo 1964.
   4. It was thanks to hosting that Olympics that Japan invested in infrastructure such as the famous Shinkansen bullet train.
2. 4213
3. 2134
4. 2314
5. 3412

Solution is option D: 3 sentence starts the topic. The use of ‘it’ in 4^th makes 34 a link. Only B option correctly uses this link.

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Question 4. Four jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

1. However, if we’re to be successful and create a world that remedies the situation we’re confronted with, everyone needs to step up and demand a better world.
2. A world free from the inequalities of climate change, a world free from the economic disparities created by the system that is to be held responsible for the climate crisis.
3. That will help meet our target of 60% of energy to come from low-carbon sources within 12 years.

4.We’re united under the banner of “system change, not climate change”.

1. Option 1
2. Option 2
3. Option 3
4. Option 4

Solution is option C: All the sentences except the third one talk about how changes in the system or ground level is necessary to bring a change in climate. The third sentence couldn’t establish any link with all the sentences as it’s talking specifically about low-carbon sources.

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Question 5. Four jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

1. The transition from nationalism of the independence movement, which was a costume ball of ideas, to the uniformity of the nation state is complete.
   2. This vigilantism of patriotic and chauvinist groups has the seal of official approval.
   3. A good citizen is not only someone who is corseted in dress but one who wears a corseted mind.
   4. Demolishing the creativity of civil society by turning every act of dissent and difference into a canned idea of sedition.
2. Option 1
3. Option 2
4. Option 3
5. Option 4

Solution is Option D: The passage mainly talks about the art of nationalism except the 4^th sentence which couldn’t establish any link with other sentences.

Question 6: The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) 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 work is more than the text, for the text only takes on life, when it is realized and furthermore the realization is by no means independent of the individual disposition of the reader.

2. The convergence of text and reader brings the literary work into existence and this convergence is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader.

3. From this polarity it follows that the literary work cannot be completely identical with the text, or with the realization of the text, but in fact must lie halfway between the two.

4. The literary work has two poles, which we might call the artistic and the aesthetic; the artistic refers to the text created by the author, and the aesthetic to the realization accomplished by the reader.

Possible Answer: 4312. The text mainly talks about two aspects of writing - author and the reader.

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