NinetynineCAT 2023 Slot 2 VARC Q20 Odd Sentence Out
Question 20 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2023 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
1. The banning of Northern Lights could be considered a precursor to censoring books for "moral", world view or religious reasons.
2. Attempts to ban books are attempts to silence authors who have summoned immense courage in telling their stories.
3. Now the banning and challenging of books in the US has escalated to an unprecedented level.
4. The widely acclaimed fantasy novel Northern Lights was banned in some parts of the US, and was the second most challenged book in the US.
5. The American Library Association documented an unparalleled number of reported book challenges in 2022, about 2,500 unique titles.
1. The banning of Northern Lights could be considered a precursor to censoring books for "moral", world view or religious reasons.
2. Attempts to ban books are attempts to silence authors who have summoned immense courage in telling their stories.
3. Now the banning and challenging of books in the US has escalated to an unprecedented level.
4. The widely acclaimed fantasy novel Northern Lights was banned in some parts of the US, and was the second most challenged book in the US.
5. The American Library Association documented an unparalleled number of reported book challenges in 2022, about 2,500 unique titles.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2 Odd Sentence Out TITA
Solution
- Sentences 4, 1, 3 and 5 form a factual account: Northern Lights was banned (4), as a precursor to censorship (1), and now banning has escalated (3) to about 2,500 challenged titles in 2022 (5).
- Sentence 2 is an opinion about authors' courage and silencing, which is outside this narrative of the trend and its data, so it is odd.