NinetynineCAT 2022 Slot 3 VARC Q24 Para Jumbles
Question 24 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. If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic the Hedgehog on a red-hot Sega Mega Drive, I would often be made to feel guilty about not going outside to "enjoy it while it lasts".
2. My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.
3. Tales of my mum's idyllic-sounding childhood in the Sussex countryside, where trees were climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.
4. To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat - and the feeling has stayed with me.
1. If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic the Hedgehog on a red-hot Sega Mega Drive, I would often be made to feel guilty about not going outside to "enjoy it while it lasts".
2. My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.
3. Tales of my mum's idyllic-sounding childhood in the Sussex countryside, where trees were climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.
4. To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat - and the feeling has stayed with me.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2314 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 2 opens by introducing the situation: 'My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.'
- 3 explains why she wanted this ('quite reasonably'): tales of her own idyllic outdoor childhood, passed down like folklore.
- 1 gives the result for the narrator: staying indoors brought guilt and the line 'enjoy it while it lasts'.
- 4's 'that felt like a threat' points back to that phrase, so it closes the paragraph.