NinetynineCAT 2024 Slot 2 VARC Q16 Odd Sentence Out
Question 16 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2024 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. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture.
2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn't mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism.
3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.
4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback.
5. There's a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.
1. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture.
2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn't mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism.
3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.
4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback.
5. There's a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 2 Odd Sentence Out TITA
Solution
- Sentences 1, 3, 4 and 5 form a paragraph about political resistance to biological explanations: 3 (many dislike the idea that gender is not purely social), 5 (a political preference for purely social, malleable gender), 1 (no real researcher says all nature or all nurture), 4 ('Despite this empirical truth', researchers face pushback).
- Sentence 2 shifts to what the evidence implies for fighting sexism, a moral point outside the paragraph's focus on pushback. It is the odd one.