CAT 2021 Slot 2 VARC Q22 Para Jumbles

Question 22 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2021 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.

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 key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

1. Look forward a few decades to an invention which can end the energy crisis, change the global economy and curb climate change at a stroke: commercial fusion power.
2. To gain meaningful insights, logic has to be accompanied by asking probing questions of nature through controlled tests, precise observations and clever analysis.
3. The greatest of all inventions is the über-invention that has provided the insights on which others depend: the modern scientific method.
4. This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method; it will rest on the application of a diverse range of scientific insights, such as the process transforming hydrogen into helium to release huge amounts of energy.

TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.

Answer: 3214 Para Jumbles TITA

Solution

  1. 3 opens: the greatest invention is the scientific method.
  2. 2 describes the method: logic plus probing questions through tests and observation.
  3. 1 looks ahead to a future invention, commercial fusion power.
  4. 4 'This invention is inconceivable without the scientific method' ties fusion back to 3.