NinetynineCAT 2022 Slot 3 VARC Q19 Para Jumbles
Question 19 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2022 Slot 3, 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. The more we are able to accept that our achievements are largely out of our control, the easier it becomes to understand that our failures, and those of others, are too.
2. But the raft of recent books about the limits of merit is an important correction to the arrogance of contemporary entitlement and an opportunity to reassert the importance of luck, or grace, in our thinking.
3. Meritocracy as an organising principle is an inevitable function of a free society, as we are designed to see our achievements as worthy of reward.
4. And that in turn should increase our humility and the respect with which we treat our fellow citizens, helping ultimately to build a more compassionate society.
1. The more we are able to accept that our achievements are largely out of our control, the easier it becomes to understand that our failures, and those of others, are too.
2. But the raft of recent books about the limits of merit is an important correction to the arrogance of contemporary entitlement and an opportunity to reassert the importance of luck, or grace, in our thinking.
3. Meritocracy as an organising principle is an inevitable function of a free society, as we are designed to see our achievements as worthy of reward.
4. And that in turn should increase our humility and the respect with which we treat our fellow citizens, helping ultimately to build a more compassionate society.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 3214 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 3 opens with the general claim: meritocracy is inevitable in a free society.
- 2 counters it with 'But' (recent books on the limits of merit reassert the role of luck).
- 1 develops the luck idea: if our achievements are out of our control, so are failures.
- 4 ('And that in turn') concludes with humility and a more compassionate society.