CAT 2024 Slot 1 VARC Q8 Sentence Placement

Question 8 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2024 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: The brain isn't organized the way you might set up your home office or bathroom medicine cabinet.

Paragraph: ___(1)___. You can't just put things anywhere you want to. The evolved architecture of the brain is haphazard and disjointed, and incorporates multiple systems, each of which has a mind of its own. ___(2)___. Evolution doesn't design things and it doesn't build systems—it settles on systems that, historically, conveyed a survival benefit. There is no overarching, grand planner engineering the systems so that they work harmoniously together. ___(3)___. The brain is more like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction. ___(4)___.
  1. A
    Option 1
  2. B
    Option 4
  3. C
    Option 2
  4. D
    Option 3

Answer: (A) Option 1 Sentence Placement MCQ

Solution

  1. The sentence contrasts the brain with a home office that you organise as you like.
  2. Blank 1 is followed by 'You can't just put things anywhere you want to', which continues that office analogy directly.
  3. So the sentence opens the paragraph at blank 1, which is option A.

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