NinetynineCAT 2018 Slot 1 VARC Q33 Para Jumbles
Question 33 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2018 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
1. In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action.
2. For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly fooled by themselves.
3. In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its benefits.
4. In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
5. Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.
2. For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly fooled by themselves.
3. In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its benefits.
4. In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
5. Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 4 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- Sentences 1, 3, 2 and 5 develop one argument: time inconsistency keeps people from acting, but for immunisation it alone cannot explain permanent postponement, because people would have to keep fooling themselves that they will go next month.
- Sentence 4 shifts to cost as the deterrent, which is a different explanation that breaks the time-inconsistency thread. So 4 is the odd one out.