NinetynineCAT 2025 Slot 3 VARC Q12 Para Jumbles
Question 12 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2025 Slot 3, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, 'I worked too hard for the "a" in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.'
2. Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.
3.They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.
4. More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.
1. When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, 'I worked too hard for the "a" in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.'
2. Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.
3.They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.
4. More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 4312 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 4 introduces 'Latinx' as 'yet another name' devised by activists for gender neutrality.
- 3 follows with 'They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical...', where 'They' are the activists.
- 1 gives a prominent LGBTQ voice rejecting Latinx ('I worked too hard for the a in Latina').
- 2 closes with the data: fewer than 2 percent use Latinx.
Shortcut. 'They have done this' (3) must come right after the action in 4.