CAT Prep 2013: Tips to crack 10 Common Errors in VA section- Part II

NOIDA, India - April 19, 2013 - PRLog -- This article from MBAUniverse.com CAT 2013 Prep team of CAT experts, brings you broad understanding on some of the common error questions in VA section that frequently appear in CAT.  

Here follows 5 of the Top 10 common errors in VA section with model questions and their solution & explanation. We have already published 5 common errors in the previous part of this story. (http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/6861/CAT-Prep-2013-10-Errors-in-VA)

6. Surprise para-jumbles:

Directions for question: In the questions given below, five sentences are given labeled  A, B, C, D and E. Out of these, four statements need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, out of context sentence option is marked as and ‘’. Pick out the option that best describes the sequence of sentences and identifies the ‘out of context sentence’ that does not fit the sequence.

A. one is ‘Residence on earth’, written largely on his Eastern sojourn, in Burma, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia

B. in the 1920s and early 1930s,   his  exposure to the East, including India

C. Still, some consider that his most lasting work is to be found  in two major poems

D. which he visited many times, was a watershed moment.

 E. If there is somebody that put into words  what Chile is all about, it is Neruda.  

 1. EADB and C   2. ABCD and E     3. CABD and E       4. BDEC and A

Ans. 3. CABD and E

7. Random Parajumbles

Direction for question- The sentences as given below, when arranged properly, form a meaningful paragraph.
A) When Customs and Excise seized the eight steel tubes bound for lraq, on the grounds that they ‘could be used as the barrel of a large artillery gun,’ several pressing questions arose.  

B) Sheffield Forgemasters, at the centre of the lraqi supergun affair, yesterday succeeded only in compounding the puzzle.

C) Far from answering them, Sheffield Forge masters have only compounded the puzzle by their disclosure yesterday-that the eight impounded tubes were actually part of a much large consignment of 52.

D) They disclosed that the full consignment was in fact for 52 steel tubes. The number seized by customs and Excise (on the grounds that they’ could be used as the barrel of a large artillery gun’) had been a mere eight.

i) ABCD     ii) BDAC    iii) ADBC  iv) CDBA  

Ans. ii) BDAC

8. Parajumbles with Opening sentence given

Direction- In the Following paragraph opening sentence is given followed by a group of sentences, which if placed in correct sequence will form a coherent paragraph. You have to select the most appropriate option out of the given ones that follow the paragraph.

Neil Simon, who is, without doubt, America’s Leading comedy writer, started his career when only sixteen years old, writing with his brother Daniel, scripts for radio.

A) In fact, during the 1966-67 season in New York, theatre goers could have seen ’Barefoot in the park’;’ The odd Couple’;’ Sweet Charity’ and ‘The Star-Spangled Girl’, which were all running simultaneously.

B) His first play for Broadway was ‘Come Blow Your Horn’, which had a limited success and    encouraged him to write his first real smash Broadway hit, ‘Barefoot in the Park’.

C) With the advent of television he progressed to shows like The Ed Sulli van programme and, in particular,

D)  two and a half years with the highly successful Bilko series which is still showing throughout the world.

i) DBAC  ii) CDBA     iii) BDCA      iv) ABDC          

Ans.ii) CDBA

Tips and strategy to solve:

Step-1 – Mark the idea and tone of the sentences. This will enable you to identify the Opening and/or closing sentence making the task easier.  You may opt for elimination method

Step-2 – Search for connectors to sentences e.g. conjunctions, personal (He/she/it/they/their etc), relative (Who, whose, that, which etc.), Demonstrative (These, those, this, that etc.) pronouns as they indicate that they must have been used in place of some noun-proper/common etc. So find the link between the sentences.

Step-3- A few paragraphs have time factors in it, indicating that the events mentioned for the earlier time should come first and could help you to put them in chronological order.

Step-4- Practice more and improve the reading skills and accuracy.

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