NinetynineCAT 2025 Slot 1 VARC Q15 Odd Sentence Out
Question 15 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2025 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
1. Developments both technological and sociocultural have afforded us far greater freedom over death than we had in the past, and while we are still adapting ourselves to that freedom, we now appreciate the moral importance of this freedom.
2. But I believe that a type of freedom we can call freedom over death – that is, a freedom in which we shape the timing and circumstances of how we die – should be central to this conversation.
3. Legalising assisted dying is but a further step in realising this freedom over death.
4. Many people endorse, through their opinions or their choices, our freedom over death encompassing a right to medical assistance in hastening our deaths.
5. Freedom is a notoriously complex and contested philosophical notion, and I won't pretend to settle any of the big controversies it raises.
1. Developments both technological and sociocultural have afforded us far greater freedom over death than we had in the past, and while we are still adapting ourselves to that freedom, we now appreciate the moral importance of this freedom.
2. But I believe that a type of freedom we can call freedom over death – that is, a freedom in which we shape the timing and circumstances of how we die – should be central to this conversation.
3. Legalising assisted dying is but a further step in realising this freedom over death.
4. Many people endorse, through their opinions or their choices, our freedom over death encompassing a right to medical assistance in hastening our deaths.
5. Freedom is a notoriously complex and contested philosophical notion, and I won't pretend to settle any of the big controversies it raises.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 4 Odd Sentence Out TITA
Solution
- 5 sets up freedom as a contested notion the author won't settle. 2: 'But I believe' freedom over death should be central.
- 1 explains how technology and culture have given us this freedom, and 3 calls legalising assisted dying a further step in realising it.
- Sentence 4 reports what many people endorse, a survey of opinion that breaks the author's first-person argument from concept (5, 2) through history (1) to policy (3). It is the odd one.