NinetynineCAT 2025 Slot 1 VARC Q5 Odd Sentence Out
Question 5 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. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
2. So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker's idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre.
3. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
4. That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer's attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew.
5. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.
1. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
2. So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker's idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre.
3. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
4. That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer's attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew.
5. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 1 Odd Sentence Out TITA
Solution
- Sentences 3, 5, 2 and 4 form a chain: Neagley says pre-Renaissance viewers engaged with art bodily (3); the tapestry was hung at eye level 'to enable this' (5).
- 'So' if it hung in a square, viewers stood in the centre (2); 'That would make it' an immersive space (4).
- Sentence 1 concerns the tapestry's political message (the fall of the English), not how viewers physically experienced it, and its 'therefore' has no premise here. It is the odd one.