NinetynineCAT 2021 Slot 2 VARC Q21 Odd Sentence Out
Question 21 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2021 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:
1. It has taken on a warm, fuzzy glow in the advertising world, where its potential is being widely discussed, and it is being claimed as the undeniable wave of the future.
2. There is little enthusiasm for this in the scientific arena; for them marketing is not a science, and only a handful of studies have been published in scientific journals.
3. The new, growing field of neuromarketing attempts to reveal the inner workings of consumer behaviour and is an extension of the study of how choices and decisions are made.
4. Some see neuromarketing as an attempt to make the "art" of advertising into a science, being used by marketing experts to back up their proposals with some form of real data.
5. The marketing gurus have already started drawing on psychology in developing tests and theories, and advertising people have borrowed the idea of the focus group from social scientists.
1. It has taken on a warm, fuzzy glow in the advertising world, where its potential is being widely discussed, and it is being claimed as the undeniable wave of the future.
2. There is little enthusiasm for this in the scientific arena; for them marketing is not a science, and only a handful of studies have been published in scientific journals.
3. The new, growing field of neuromarketing attempts to reveal the inner workings of consumer behaviour and is an extension of the study of how choices and decisions are made.
4. Some see neuromarketing as an attempt to make the "art" of advertising into a science, being used by marketing experts to back up their proposals with some form of real data.
5. The marketing gurus have already started drawing on psychology in developing tests and theories, and advertising people have borrowed the idea of the focus group from social scientists.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 5 Odd Sentence Out TITA
Solution
- 3 introduces neuromarketing; 1 ('It has taken on a warm, fuzzy glow in the advertising world') and 2 ('little enthusiasm for this in the scientific arena') contrast the two worlds' reactions; 4 explains that it is seen as an attempt to make advertising a science.
- 5 is about marketers borrowing psychology and focus groups in general, not about neuromarketing, so it is the odd one out.