NinetynineCAT 2022 Slot 2 VARC Q24 Para Jumbles
Question 24 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2022 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. Women may prioritize cooking because they feel they alone are responsible for mediating a toxic and unhealthy food system.
2. Food is commonly framed through the lens of individual choice: you can choose to eat healthily.
3. This is particularly so in a neoliberal context where the state has transferred the responsibility for food onto individual consumers.
4. The individualized framing of choice appeals to a popular desire to experience agency, but draws away from the structural obstacles that stratify individual food choices.
1. Women may prioritize cooking because they feel they alone are responsible for mediating a toxic and unhealthy food system.
2. Food is commonly framed through the lens of individual choice: you can choose to eat healthily.
3. This is particularly so in a neoliberal context where the state has transferred the responsibility for food onto individual consumers.
4. The individualized framing of choice appeals to a popular desire to experience agency, but draws away from the structural obstacles that stratify individual food choices.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2431 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 2 opens with the general claim: food is framed as individual choice.
- 4 follows with 'The individualized framing of choice', showing its appeal and its blindness to structural obstacles.
- 3 adds 'This is particularly so in a neoliberal context' where responsibility is shifted to individual consumers.
- 1 ends with the consequence for women, who feel they alone are responsible for mediating the food system.