NinetynineCAT 2023 Slot 1 VARC Q22 Para Jumbles
Question 22 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2023 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given 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. What precisely are the "unusual elements" that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience?
2 . It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.
3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that "ordinary" murder doesn't.
4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?
1. What precisely are the "unusual elements" that make a particular case so attractive to a certain kind of audience?
2 . It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable level of depravity, very often it has something to do with the precise amount of mystery involved.
3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer something that "ordinary" murder doesn't.
4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual re-examination and others locked into permanent obscurity?
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 4123 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 4 opens with the broad question: why are some crimes re-examined forever and others forgotten?
- 1 sharpens it: what are the 'unusual elements' that attract an audience?
- 2 answers it: depravity, but very often 'the precise amount of mystery involved'.
- 3 follows the mention of mystery: unsolved cases offer something 'ordinary' murder doesn't. Order: 4123.