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ForumLife ExperiencesSearch4 Rules to Master Para CompletionPosted on August 16, 2013 by GPIf a poll was conducted among CAT aspirants on the most hated question type in English section, possibly Sentence Correction and Para Completion would top the charts. Unfortunately the prerequisite for doing well in both these question types would mean going back in time and inculcating a good reading habit. You will rarely find someone who has been reading regularly not doing well in these questiontypes. Obviously, going back in time is ruled out and since we are targeting CAT 2013 develop a good reading habit is stupid advice.

While I have already written in my last post on how to improve your scores in Se

ntence Correction, and hopefully you have already started implementing the suggestions, let me shift my focus to the other monster Para Completion.

First let us understand how most of the Para Completion questions are framed. Typically, the question creator will take a short paragraph from a book or an article and remove the last sentence and your Para Completion question and the correct answer choice are ready. The only thing missing are the three incorrect choices. Now creating three good, but incorrect, choices is not only hard work (who wants to work hard?) but also requires the content creator to think like the author, which is not easy, so he/she will usually be able to create only one good/close choice and two not so good choices.

We need to hence remember that the correct answer choice in Para Completion is a

n extension of the passage and is written by the same person who wrote the passage, so there have to be similarities between the paragraph and the correct answer choice. If we are able to identify the similarities or dissimilarities betweenthe paragraph and the choices we have tamed the monster. Identifying similarities is usually more difficult than identifying dissimilarities and it I have my 4Rules to identify the incorrect choices. Obviously eliminating 3 incorrect choices will give us the answer.

4 Rules to Master Para Completion

Rule 1: ScopeScope loosely refers to the subject of the passage and the issues discussed in it. Scope of the correct answer choice should be the same as that of the passage.

For example, if the passage discusses the benefits of Nuclear Energy, choices discussing Solar Power are unlikely to be correct. When a choice is out of scope,it is discussing issues or subjects that are different from those in the passage. Thus any choice that is not in sync with the scope of the passage will be incorrect and should be eliminated.

Rule 2: ScaleConsider a passage on the outbreak of bird flu in a city, the correct answer choice will also focus on the city, it will not significantly change the scale (orsize) of the problem. Thus any choice that extends the bird flu problem of the c



ity to the country or reduces it to a small part of the city is unlikely to be correct. In other words the scale (or size) of the issue/problem will be similarin the paragraph and the correct answer choice.

Rule 3: ToneIf the author of the paragraph has a favourable opinion on an issue then the correct answer choice should also reflect it. The tone of the passage and the correct answer choice has to be the same. If the passage is laudatory, it is not possible for the correct answer choice to be critical.

Rule 4: ContinuityJust as Ganges flows from Gangotri to Rishikesh to Varanasi and cannot reverse its direction, an issue that has been discussed and closed in the paragraph willnot be taken up again, remember from Rishikesh Ganges can flow only to Varanasiand not to Gangotri. It is the last thought or issue that has to be taken forward and not something that is dead and buried.

How to apply these 4 Rules?

Obviously you start by reading the paragraph and going thru the choices. Check each choice for similarity with the passage on account of Scope (syllabus), Scale(size) Tone and Continuity (flow). Any choice that does not adhere to these four has to be incorrect and eliminated.1. If you are able to eliminate 3 out of 4 choices the remaining choice is the a

nswer.2. If you are able to eliminate 2 out of 4 choices, compare the two remaining choices and the one which is closer to the paragraph in terms of scope, scale, tone and continuity is the answer.3. If you are able to eliminate only 1 out of 4 choices, move on to the next question.4. If you are unable to eliminate any choice obviously this need not be discussed.

To help you understand the application of these rules I have discussed 4 Para Completion question below. After going thru these examples try applying these rule

s to Para Completion questions of Mock CAT past CAT papers.

These rules will also work for Summary and Critical Reasoning questions and inferential questions in RC passages.

Application of 4 Rules to a few questions for better understanding:

Q1. Teaching creationism in American public schools has been outlawed since 1987when the Supreme Court ruled that the inclusion of religious material in science classes was unconstitutional. In recent years, however, opponents of the theory of evolution first developed by Charles Darwin, have regrouped, challenging sc

ience education with the doctrine of intelligent design, which has been carefullystripped of all references to God and religion. Unlike traditional creationism,which claims that God created the earth in six days, proponents of intelligent design say the workings of this planet are too complex to be ascribed to evolution. There must have been a designer working to a plan that is, a creator. _______

______________

(a) However, these kinds of teachings are unacceptable to the American public.(b) However, there are many schools that are in favour of teaching traditional creationism to the students.



(c) However, such beliefs are not substantial enough to convince the American courts to allow teaching the subject in its schools.(d) However, the American government believes that the students must have the knowledge of traditional creationism, as well as, intelligent design.(e) However, some believe that parents should decide what subjects should be taught to their children

Choice (a): Incorrect, change of scope, the paragraph does not discuss the viewsof the American public.Choice (b): Incorrect, change of scope, the paragraph does not discuss the viewsof the schools.Choice (c): Could be correct, scope is view of American courts, and the tone isthe same as the view is the same in another similar situation.Choice (d): Incorrect, change of scope from view of American Courts to views ofthe American Government.Choice (e): Incorrect, change of scope from view of American Courts to views ofthe parents.

Correct answer: Choice (c)

Q2. The Ninth Schedule was created by Jawaharlal Nehrus government as a vessel toprotect agrarian reform legislation. Nehrus vessel became a constitutional dustbin for Indira Gandhis and later governments to provide immunity for any kind of legislation relating to elections, mines and minerals, industrial regulation, requisition of property, monopolies, coal or copper nationalisation, general insurance, sick industries, acquiring the Alcock Ashdown company, Kerala Chitties Act,Tamil Nadu reservations of 69 per cent and so on. _____________________

(a) This misuse is only characteristic of the political situation in India.(b) Protection has become a veil for rampant corruption.(c) No principle underlies this selection.(d) Theoretically, all state and Union legislations lack substance.(e) The dustbin was of limitless capacity.

Choice (a): Incorrect, scale (or scope) has changed from Indira Gandhis and laterGovernments to entire political class.Choice (b): Incorrect, change of scope, corruption has not been discussed in theparagraph and hence out of syllabusChoice (c): Could be correct, it has a tone of disapproval like the paragraph and it talks about all kind of legislation (no principle) but introduces a new concept principle and hence the scope is possibly different.Choice (d): Incorrect, scale has changed to encompass all legislations and scopehas changed by including both state and the Union.Choice (e): Correct on account of tone (disapproving) and continuity (dustbin) and does not have a problem of either scale or scope.

Correct answer: Choice (e)

Q3. The digital-storytelling movement started in the early 1990s with performance artists such as San Francisco-based Atchley. But the technique is just beginning to take hold in the world of e-business. At last falls national Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, Colo., nearly half of the people signed up represented corporations. The stories that people are telling on the Web around corporate brands are astounding, says Atchley. Knowledge is best shared and remembered



through a good story, and companies are just starting to catch on to all that this can mean. __________________

(a) If so, digital storytelling will see that computer prices continue to plummet.(b) If so, digital storytelling will link high-speed data lines and more peopleto the Web.(c) If so, digital storytelling will help companies to know more than what theyknew earlier.(d) If so, digital storytelling will only become more popular.(e) If so, digital storytelling will only become less popular.

Choice (a): Incorrect, change of scope Computer prices out of syllabus.Choice (b): Incorrect, change of scope High speed data lines & web are not discussed in the paragraph.Choice (c): Incorrect, change of scope The focus of the paragraph is on digitalstorytelling and not on how it will help companies.Choice (d): Correct, on account of Scope & Continuity. The focus of this choiceis on digital storytelling and also takes forward the impact of interest of companies more popularity.Choice (e): Incorrect, change of tone the paragraph talks only of increasing popularity while the choice is making digital storytelling less popular.

Correct answer: Choice (d)

Q4. No fewer than 70,000 workers would have been needed to lug limestone blocksfrom desert miles away to the building sites of the pyramids. Yet there is little evidence that the pharaohs had to coerce their subjects to leave their fieldsand families in order to build a monument whose completion any single worker would certainly never see. All people apparently willingly participated in the pageant of immortality-made-real. With no hope of a berth for themselves in the tomb, the workers nonetheless must have taken comfort from knowing that their king,their earthly representative, would live on for them in perpetuity.(a) Here was a culture that would persist, just as its pharaohs would live on intheir silent palaces.

(b) The Egyptian hoi polloi became immortal by proxy.(c) King Tut and ended the brief experiment in monotheism in favour of the olderreligion with its promise of an afterlife.(d) The solemn bearing of these great structures reminds people today of the wayan entire culture fashioned a collective immortality in astonishing stone.

Choice (a): Incorrect, culture is not mentioned in the paragraph, out of scope.Choice (b): Could be correct on account of scope, workers or common people, andcontinuity from last statement.Choice (c): Incorrect, on account of scale reducing from Pharoahs in general toKing Tut in particular and the scope changing to religion.Choice (d): Incorrect, scope is workers and not the structures

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Shubham on August 15, 2012 at 9:24 am said:Thank you sir for providing the rules and methods for eliminating the incorrectchoices. I will try to use this technique for solving.

Again thanks a ton!!



Reply ?prateek mangla on August 15, 2012 at 10:01 am said:really helpful sir ..thank you !!!

Reply ?Arpita on August 15, 2012 at 12:31 pm said:Thanks a lot !

It works even if I dont understand the para completely !! Please suggest some tricks for paragraph jumble . I usually(90% time) miss them by just one wrong misplacement .

Reply ?Manu Bajpai on August 15, 2012 at 5:47 pm said:A very helpful article sir. Loved it. Will keep the rules in mind :)

Reply ?Subir Paul on August 16, 2012 at 2:00 pm said:Sir!This is a brilliant read.It would make the medium difficulty questions so much easier.You actually unveiled the mentality of the Question setter!!!U Rock! :)

Reply ?Subir Paul on August 16, 2012 at 2:08 pm said:Sir one doubt on the last Example.Why the Scope cant be structures? The passage does imply that the Sctructures represented Immortality( All people apparently willingly participated in the pageant of immortality-made-real.)(king, their earthly representative, would live on for them in perpetuity)

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Subir Paulon August 16, 2012 at 2:09 pm said:

What i mean is Cant two scopes share a passage?

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GPon August 17, 2012 at 3:41 am said:Subir, typically a paragraph will deal with one issue/idea while a passage willdeal with multiple aspects of the same issue/idea.In Q4 the focus is on workers and their motivation for willing participation inbuilding the structure. So the Scope has to be workers and not structure.Another indicator is that workers/people or their condition are mentioned numberof times while building/tomb are mentioned just a couple of times.

Reply ?Prateek on August 17, 2012 at 10:19 pm said:Sir, Ive come across some questions where the last line(the correct choise) is supposed to bring out the contrast in the idea suggested by the para. In such cases,it becomes very difficult to know if we should contradict the idea or not. Case in point, Mock-5,ques based on poetry..The solution says that the option bringsout the contrast perfectly..but how are we supposed to know that??

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GPon August 18, 2012 at 6:54 pm said:Prateek, these are the most difficult Para Completion questions. Usually in these questions the para itself will give some kind of hint. It might be evaluatingall aspects of an issue or it might be critical and hence will try to provide acontrast to the idea. The methods that I have shared with you will work in 9 outof 10 questions that come in CAT or XAT and we will have to live with these oddquestion tht we will get wrong.

Reply ?Abhishek.U on August 18, 2012 at 7:05 am said:Outstanding article. Thanks a lot SIR

Reply ?Mohit on August 19, 2012 at 5:31 am said:Thanks a lot Sir for your insight.

One doubt in Q2)

How did you find the tone as that of disapproval in the passage ?And, how option 4 carries reflects this tone ?

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GPon August 19, 2012 at 11:36 am said:Mohit, the use of the word dustbin for the 9th schedule, indicates that the author is not in agreement with how Indira Gandhis and subsequent Governments used this provision.

Nehrus vessel became a constitutional dustbin for Indira

Reply ?Mohit on August 19, 2012 at 6:32 am said:Hi Sir,

Also, Can you take 2-3 more examples focussing on the role of tone and continuity w

ile solving para completion questions ?

Reply ?ankur yadav on August 19, 2012 at 7:24 am said:sir i dont knw wt to say abt u..when i do questions by myself only,they looks like real trouble fr me to solve thembut whenever i see ur post on any topic..it looks like u r fooling around the examinern making a big joke on these examinersomewhere it looks like tht u r challenging them with ur knowledge n the way u solve ny question its look like a fun game to play no more boring or troubling.thnx a lot sirit is really helpfull

Reply ?mohit on August 20, 2012 at 10:30 am said:

sir,In question-3 , half of the people signed up represented corporations and companiesare just starting to catch on to all that this can mean so can we say that the para is disussing on about the companies and the intrest they are showing in digital storytelling suggest that digital storytelling will help companies to know more than what they knew earlier

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on February 22, 2013 at 10:02 am said:this is the same confusion that i have faced to solve this question

Reply ?Ankit on August 21, 2012 at 6:52 am said:Hats off sir..:)This is the first article I have read and now i will go through rest of em as well..I always have had difficulties in VA(para completion and inference based questions in RC) but the way you have solved these questions makes me feel that thingscan be done easily with common sense and basic rules..:)Thanx a lot

Reply ?Ankit on August 21, 2012 at 9:17 am said:Most students arrive at [college] using, discrete, concrete and absolute categories to understand people, knowledge and values. These students live with a dualistic view, seeing the world in polar terms of we-right-good vs. other-wrong-bad. These students cannot acknowledge the existence of more than one point of view toward any issue. And because these absolutes are assumed by or imposed on the individual from external authority, they cannot be personally substantiated or authenticated by experience. (.)

a) They gather personal experience into a coherent frame work, abstract principl

es to guide actions and use these principles to discipline and govern their thoughts and actions.

b) They appreciate authority for its expertise, using it to defend their own generalizations. In addition, they accept or reject ostensible authority after systematically evaluating its validity.

c) These students strive for the generalizations of their authorities. An eye for an eye! Capital punishment is apt justice for murder. The Bible says so.

d) However, most students break through the dualistic stage to another equally frustrating stage multiplicity, where the student sees variety of ways to deal with any problem.

I tried this one on similar thoughts but got it wrong..can you please throw somelight on this

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GPon August 22, 2012 at 8:36 am said:This is a difficult question, however the rules can be applied:

a) Incorrect, Against the flow, absolutes are assumed by or imposed on the individual from external authority while the choice use of principles b) Incorrect, Against the flow, absolutes are assumed by or imposed on the individ

ual from external authority while the choice talks about systematically evaluatingthe validity.c) Incorrect, Out of scope, Bible?d) Correct, Continuity, bringing out the next stage

Conventional method:The passage indicates that the guiding principle in acceptance of moral absolutes is external. The inability to think for self and acceptance of rules over reason is indicated. Option (a) and (b) go against this idea as they both argue in favour of the individual being able to create his own frame-work or generalization.



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Kakuon April 11, 2013 at 1:37 am said:Talking about Multiplicity should also be out of scope sir? A new idea is introduced here!

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 5:52 am said:Options (a) and (b) can be eliminated as they have pronoun-antecedent error. They in these options should refer to students, but, if we take any of these as the correct answer choice, then they would start referring to absolutes. Hence we can eliminate (a) and (b). The passage discusses not just the nature of the students but also their journey. It starts with .most students arrive .This shows that the author is trying to explain how the students are when they come and takes the narrative from there. Option (d) takes the passage from there and explains that eventually a transformation happens and the students move into another state. Option (c) is incorrect as viewing the world in black and white may not translate into an eye for an eye as described by the example of generalization of authority inoption (c). This makes option (c) out of scope.

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 5:52 am said:Options (a) and (b) can be eliminated as they have pronoun-antecedent error. They in these options should refer to students, but, if we take any of these as the correct answer choice, then they would start referring to absolutes. Hence we can eliminate (a) and (b). The passage discusses not just the nature of the students but also their journey. It starts with .most students arrive .This shows that the author is trying to explain how the students are when they come and takes the narrative from there. Option (d) takes the passage from there and explains that eventually a transformation happens and the students move into another state. Option (c) is incorrect as viewing the world in black and white may not translate int

o an eye for an eye as described by the example of generalization of authority inoption (c). This makes option (c) out of scope.

Reply ?vinod on August 21, 2012 at 9:55 am said:sir,thanks a lot for enlightening us with the intricacies involved in para-completion

RegardsVikram

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Hirdesh Tomar on August 23, 2012 at 8:57 am said:Sir,

In some questions, the option which I find in scope and continuity comes out tobe the wrong answer with the stated reason as the choice A is mere repetition ofwhat is stated in the paragraph. These usually happens when i am left confused between two options. What should be the approach in such cases?

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GPon August 23, 2012 at 2:26 pm said:Hridesh, repetition of what has been mentioned in the paragraph will fit in wrtthe scope but would be incorrect wrt continuity. The answer choice should be taking the thought/idea forward and not repeating what has been said earlier.

Reply ?Garima on August 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm said:Amazing sir , i guess its the years of experience ..Thanks a lot for sharing such useful rules.I attended your Quant session today in Siri Fort Auditorium n m looking forward to attend a few more.Kindly plan to take some more sessions on other sections also.

Reply ?anil on August 28, 2012 at 6:55 pm said:please give some tips on parajumbles.

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GPon August 29, 2012 at 5:40 pm said:Will do so shortly.

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rohit on September 2, 2012 at 1:14 pm said:http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-01-22/edit-page/27888158_1_dustbin-ninth-schedule-immunity

sir plz chk dis link for question no 2 it says answer as c

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GPon September 5, 2012 at 7:54 am said:Rohit, you are right that the original passage has choice (c) as the last line but we do not have the luxury of the original passage while answering the question and can only logically deduce the answer.

Unfortunately there is no way of avoiding this problem because in the end thereis some amount of subjectivity involved in creation of a paragraph.

Reply ?Ravi on September 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm said:Hi Sir. very often i mark the last line as the one which sumarizes the given 3 or 4 lines..n to my disappoint thts nevr the answer ..am i going wrong somewherein choosing the summary choice as the answer ??

Reply ?karan on September 4, 2012 at 8:39 pm said:sir,

as rohit gave a link to the article, it says that answer is c, but the option weselected was the line picked up by the question setter two lines below, seems question setter is smart(just kidding.. :p)but the question is how to crack these kind of questions/how to judge this cleverness of question setter?

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GPon September 5, 2012 at 8:09 am said:Karan, there is no specific way of handling such questions.



Reply ?Pooja Arora on September 7, 2012 at 7:10 am said:Hello Sir

I tried same method with the below given question, but failed in attempting it correctly. Kindly throw light on the same:

Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by whichone shape or form changes into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity. Books are turned into plays and films all the time, plays are turned intomovies and also sometimes into musicals, movies are turned into Broadway shows and even, by the ugly method known as novelisation, into books as well. We live ina world of such transformations and metamorphoses. ________________________

a Ricky Gervais turns into Steve Carell, just as, long ago, the British working-class racist Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part turned into the American blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker in All In the Family.b British TV comedy series are turned into American TV comedy series, so that TheOffice becomes a different The Office.c British reality programmes are adapted to suit American audiences as well; PopIdol becomes American Idol when it crosses the Atlantic.d Good movies Lolita, The Pink Panther are remade as bad movies; bad movies dible Hulk, Deep Throat are remade as even worse movies.

What my doubt is; Neither of the options shows exact TRANSFORMATION. TV series remain series even if the audiences to which it caters changeSimilarly with other as well

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GPon September 7, 2012 at 9:50 am said:Pooja, this is a very poorly framed question. all four can be correct.

The paragraph gives us the generic concept hence it should be followed by an example. all the four choices are equally good examples and can fit in. I would lea

ve this question unattempted.

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GPon September 9, 2012 at 1:52 am said:Pooja, I had asked Gejo for his opinion on the question, his response is given below:

GP,

This is picked from http://redroom.com/member/salman-rushdie/writing/a-fine-pickle-slumdog-millionaire-and-film-adaptation

You see all the four options one after another.

It is a bad question since all four are examples of transformation and there isno reason as to why one of them should be a better last sentence.

As you rightly pointed out everything is a transformation.

Gejo



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Kakuon April 11, 2013 at 1:48 am said:GP Sir

I wont lie to you but I chose option D, thinking what will I choose if I had tochoose one.Heres my logic:The first three talk about British and American blah blah blahThey are an examplewhere no personal view as the ugly method known as novelisation is hinted. Howeve, we see that in the last option the author of this article tries to continue the passage by saying good becomes bad and bad becomes worse. Hence, the immediatechoice should be D. What do you have to say about my logic? Kindly correct me,if I am wrong in my thinking.

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 5:56 am said:You are correct . The correct answer is (d). The author shows slight contempt for this process of converting one form of art into another. This is evident by the choice of words like ugly.However , as discussed earlier, all the given optionscan follow the text in quick succession .

Reply ?sunny on September 7, 2012 at 10:41 am said:sir,why option no. 3 is incorrect in q no. 3 as it is in continuity with the passageand not completely out of scope as the last lines of para were dealing with knowledge sharing through digital story telling by companies and the option goes with it.??

pl give ur valuable insights.

Reply ?GP on September 9, 2012 at 2:18 am said:

Sunny, the focus of the paragraph is on digital story telling & its growth not on betterment of companies, hence scope is digital storyelling and not companies.

Reply ?Vamsi krishna on September 10, 2012 at 6:29 am said:Sir,Please give us some tips on Para Jumbles, SC and fill in the blanks.Eagerly waiting for your the posts on requested.Regards,Krishna

Reply ?Jyoti on September 13, 2012 at 3:03 pm said:

Sir your guidelines on sentence completion is amazingPlease give guidelines for para jumbles Inspite of practicing a lot , I am still making mistakes .Please help

Reply ?Pooja Arora on September 13, 2012 at 4:55 pm said:Thanks a lot for your reply :)

Reply ?Vaani on September 19, 2012 at 7:23 pm said:Hi Sir, could u plz answer the below question?



Choose the option which can continue the paragraph most logically and consistently:The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India,and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises signals efforts toform an entente among the Asia-Pacific regions three leading democracies. At a time when Asia is in transition and troubled by growing security challenges, the US, India, and Japan are seeking to build a broader strategic understanding to advance their shared interests. Their effort calls to mind the pre-World War 1 Franco-British-Russian Triple Entente to meet the threat posed by the rapid rise of an increasingly assertive Germany. ______________

1) This entente could serve as an important strategic instrument to deter Chinasrising power from sliding into arrogance.2) Indeed, the intention of the three democratic powers is to create an ententecordiale without transforming it into a formal military alliance.3) The new strategy supports India as a regional economic anchor and provider ofsecurity in the broader Indian Ocean region.4) This time, the impetus has been provided by Chinas increasingly muscular foreign policy.

Reply ?Gaurav Srivastava on September 23, 2012 at 9:26 pm said:@vaani

http://apircenter.org/usa/togetheru-s-indiaandjapancan-checkchina/

Reply ?Gaurav Srivastava on September 30, 2012 at 8:12 am said:Hi Sir,Mock :8 Section :2 Question no 14 paracompletion , I am not satisfied with CL Answer:even googled and find the actual article here the given option is starting a fresh para not closing the para.

Please let me know where i ammoneyland.time.com/2011/11/14/

Reply ?pragati on October 10, 2012 at 7:29 pm said:sir in q-2 we can also say for e) part that capacity hasnt been talked about so out of scope

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GPon October 12, 2012 at 4:54 pm said:No, limitless capacity flows out from the fact that all kinds of legislations were being pushed under the 9th schedule.

Reply ?nikhil on October 15, 2012 at 1:21 pm said:thanx sir..

Reply ?sachin on October 15, 2012 at 6:44 pm said:@GP sir , plz give some more examples !! it will be of great help :)

Reply ?Rajesh on October 17, 2012 at 4:36 pm said:



Choose sentence that completes the para -Mattancherry is Indian Jewrys most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses,connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, whiteskinnedIndian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, builtin 1568,with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yahehselling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.(2) Indias Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, except for European colonizers andeach other.(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.(4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.

Sir, I find solution of this question confusing. The passage predominantly dealswith Mattancherry settlement. So I feel the ideal conclusion should be (a). Butthe correct choice according to CL is (b). Please share your thoughts on this.

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Team CLon October 18, 2012 at 7:19 am said:The paragraph does not describe a co-existence . It describes a confluence of cultures, where it is difficult to define the end of one and the beginning of the other . It is not that two groups are peacefully living together; there are no Indians and no Jews . Despite being white-skinned these people are Indian Jews who are as much a part of Indian fabric as of Jewish race. And hence, the only discrimination that has come their way is from Europeans ( outsiders ).

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Rajesh

on October 18, 2012 at 12:55 pm said:It is mentioned in the para that Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses,connected by first-floor passages.. Many houses connected by first floor passages doesnt this imply the Jews are living in peaceful co-existence. Option (2) takes a diversion. Last sentence of para Its synagogue, built in 1568,with a floor ofblue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yahehselling tickets at the door, stands as an image of religious tolerance. It is also a description. So the sentence that follows this sentence should be in sync with this sentence. Option (2) I feel is not in sync with the rest of the para. The para is not about Jews but about Jews settlement.

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Kakuon April 11, 2013 at 2:03 am said:GP Sir

Isnt peaceful co-existence out of scope?Where does peace comes in? Also, how can we imply the situation is peaceful? Diversity doesnt guarantee peace, or am I missing something?

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 7:39 am said:Yes, Peace is not implied by the passage. the passage is more about how these people are a part of both the Indian as well as the Jewish community.

Reply ?rahul ritesh chaudhary on November 1, 2012 at 4:30 pm said:awwwwwwwwww dat worked sir..

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GPon November 2, 2012 at 1:57 am said:Great, All the best.

Reply ?ANURAG AGGARWAL on November 11, 2012 at 5:07 pm said:Sir pl answer this pcThe popularity of science fiction in the visualmedia had a profound effect on the genre.Science fiction authors who had been contentwith an elite circle of readers now wantedthe recognition and money that went with

mass appeal. Escapism reigned supreme. Theliterary excellence of the 1960s was replacedby a return to the simpler storytelling of the1940s.1) This has helped these writers to reacha wider audience leading to many morepeople reading this stuff.2) Even this failed to bring in more readers,and this genre soon started declininggiving way to other genres in literature.3) Rather than developing in new areas,writers turned to the easy money foundin producing sequels to great works of

the past.4) This period coincided with the Americancounterculture movement, which espoused a return to simpler past ratherthan the scientific future.

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Team CLon November 12, 2012 at 10:46 am said:The given paragraph talks about how science fiction authors opted for the easy way out in their pursuit of wealth and recognition. Option 3 continues with thismain idea of the paragraph and is the correct answer. Options 1 and 2 are in-con

gruent with the paragraph. Option 4, though it seems relevant at first glance, talks about the counterculture movement whose motives for reverting to the ways of the past were different from those of the science fiction writers.

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Vishwaason June 27, 2013 at 2:14 pm said:how is option 2 in congruent with the paragraph??It hasnt been mentioned earlierin fact the idea in option 3 has already been stat



ed in the paragraph(easy money..) so option 3 does not take the idea forward.

whereas option 2 not only taks the idea forward but is in sync with the tone.

pls elaborate further.

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GPon June 30, 2013 at 1:42 pm said:Vishwaas, Option 3 is not a repetition of what has been mentioned in the passage. The last sentence of the passage gives one way of easy money (simpler storytelling) option 3 gives another way sequels so it is in continuity with the passage.

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 2:06 am said:GP Sir

I love you for this article. This has saved me from attempting additional RC questions just to increase my of attempts. Thanks a lot!Do you have similar articles on Parajumbles, Choose out of context idea from a coherent paragraph, RCs ?

Thanks a zillion!

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GPon April 22, 2013 at 3:12 pm said:Kaku, apologies for the inordinate delay in responding to your queries. Ill be finishing the queries of CAT 12 students, who have to take decisions, on institutes by tomorrow morning and will respond to all your questions tomorrow.Will be writing on Parajumbles and other topics also for CAT 13. For RC you canrefer to the articles written by Gejo in this blog itself.

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 2:26 am said:

Sir

How to solve this quesn by your approach?

Fashion firms have their clothes made in China. This is cheap but managing a long supply chain is hard. Inditex, by contrast sources its products from Spain, Portugal and Morco. This costs more but the supply chain is short, it can react quickly to new trends. Instead of betting on tomorrows look, Inditex can wait to see what customers are actually buying and make that.

a) While others are stuck with unwanted stock, Inditex sells at full price.b) Yesterdays catch must be discounted and may not sell.c) Will its fast-fashion model be copied, or bettered, by others?

d) Europe is stagnant and ageing- Inditex needs new markets.

Also how to identify what this passage is focusing on, as in, is it focusing onInditex in particular or Fashion firms or the supply chain model?

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GPon April 11, 2013 at 11:27 am said:The passage focuses on the strength of Inditex with regards to its shorter suppl



y chain. The passage talks about the positive effects of such a system. It should continue in the same line of thought. The contrast shown with the competitorsshould also follow. Option (a) continues with this idea by contrasting the results of such an operation model for Inditex and its competitors.

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Kakuon April 11, 2013 at 3:05 pm said:Sir

Why not option B or C?

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GPon April 23, 2013 at 4:27 am said:Choice a) okay in terms of continuity comparison of Inditex vs others. Take thethough forward.Choice b) okay in terms of continuity but is actually extending the argument contained in Choice (a)Choice c) Incorrect, Change of track so continuity is an issue.Choice d) Incorrect, on account of scale (market size) and scope (new markets ornew strategy) and continuity.

Between (a) and (b) Choice (a) is preferred because it is extending the thoughtwhile Choice (b) could be the next statement after Choice (a)

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Kakuon June 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm said:Sir, How is there a change of track in (c)?

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Kaku

on June 5, 2013 at 3:32 pm said:We can say that the contrast idea is being taken forward, or no?

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 4:12 pm said:Q. There was a time when the Indian Army was placed on a high pedestal- the soldier was considered the most honorable of men and his wife, the noblest of them all. Though the wife lived in the dread of a midnight call that brought the dreadful news, she was the epitome of equanimity and grace. She took everything in her stride. She knew the importance of community living and her duties towards thefamilies of the troops, while the husband led the men into the battle field.

a) Discipline and duties were bywords for not just the men, even the women were

married to men.b) Equally well, she could throw a dinner for 20 people at an hours notice.

Which is a more appropriate choice to complete the para wrt scope, size, tone, flow?

Both look equally good. Why should I rule one of them out? Also how to figure that out in the exam? or should we leave such questions?Please explain this. Also a lot of other posts by me are awaiting moderation. Kindly see if they can be brought up on this forum.



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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 7:06 am said:The passage is not about the qualities of a wife, or the ability of a woman to manage multiple things. We can therefore eliminate option (2). The passage is about how a soldiers wife contributed. The passage suggests that it was not only that the husband was committed to the army, it was also his wife who made the commitment. Option (a) takes this forward by explaining that both the partners in a marriage lived by the words of discipline and duty.

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GPon April 25, 2013 at 2:10 pm said:Choice (a) correct on account of continuity, it sums up the paragraph.Choice (b) incorrect on account of scope and continuity (equally well)

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 4:45 pm said:I am sometimes attacked for imposing rules. Nothing could be further from the truth. I hate rules. All I do is report on how consumers react to different stimuli.I may say to a copywriter, Research shows that commercials with celebrities are

below average in persuading people to buy products. Are you sure you want to usea celebrity? Call that a rule? Or I may say to an art director, Research suggeststhat if you set the copy in black type on a white background, more people willread it than if you set it in white type on a black background.1)Guidance based on applied research can hardly qualify as rules.2)Thus, all my so called rules are rooted in applied research.3)A suggestion perhaps,but scarcely a rule.4)Such principles are unavoidable if one wants to be systematic about consumer behavior.5)Fundamentally it is about consumer behavior not about celebrities or type settings.

Dear Sir

Kindly let me know if my logic is correct. More than getting the correct answer,I believe we must know as to why others were a bad choice.4) out of scope- principle??5) scope- focus is on rules actually being rules here, not consumer behavior.1, 2, 3 are close.but the author says he reports.1 and 3 talk about guidance and suggestions. When you give a report, you just present a scenario, you dont give suggestions/ guidance. So, 1 & 3 should be ruledout.I cannot think how to rule out 2, though my gut feeling says that this options doesnt gel with the paragraph. I do not know the explanation for that. Kindly provide one.

Official Answer is 3.How to rule out 1 & 2. Why 3 over 1?Should such a set be attempted?

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 7:22 am said:This is a fairly tough question. Options 1 , 2 and 3 are quite close and it is very difficult to eliminate 1 and 2. The author is trying to make light of the fa



ct that he quotes data and uses rules. The use of word scarcely has been done forthat purpose. He tries to give this tendency of his the name of suggestion ratherthan rule. The tone of the author suggests that option (3) should follow.

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GPon April 25, 2013 at 2:39 pm said:You have rightly eliminated Choice 4 and 5.Choice 2 is incorrect as it is against the tone. It says all my so called rules, uthor will not use the word rules for what he does. Guidance or suggestion are okay.Choice 1 and 3 are very close and it is difficult to eliminate either of them. If you assume the paragraph to be a bit serious then you will go for Choice 1 butif you think that it is a bit light hearted then you will go for Choice 3

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Kakuon April 25, 2013 at 4:01 pm said:Sir

Thank you for replying back to all the queries. I really appreciate your help here.

The author has mentioned the use of rules in so called rules. Isnt that the reasonused so called? i.e. he doesnt wish to use the word rules for what he does, thats hy he says so called rules, or am I wrong?

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 5:10 pm said:People may be attracted to those who have similar attitudes, values, and beliefsand even marry them at least in part on the basis of this similarity because attitudes are highly visible and salient characteristics and they are fundamentalto the way people lead their lives. Personality-related characteristics, on theother hand, take much longer to be known. However, once people are in a committed relationship, it is primarily personality similarity that influences marital h

appiness because being in a committed relationship entails regular interaction and requires extensive coordination in dealing with tasks, issues and problems ofdaily living. ____.

1)But Nature doesnt really care whether they get along or not, as long as the two procreate.

2)That is why we try to choose someone with the same interests as we, someone from a similar background, with the same values, and with whom we have a lot in common.

3)Hence couples with similar temperaments tend to get along better, and that similar attitudes and beliefs are not an important factor.

4)Where personality similarity is likely to facilitate this process, personalitydifferences may result in more friction and conflict in daily life.

5)Exceptions generally do not arise when some external factors, like interference of in-laws, is playing a role in the couples unhappiness, not their personalities.

1) out of scope- Nature2) similar background rules out this choice



5) out of scope- external factors.Though this option should be out of scope, they have mentioned Exceptions likeDoes this change the definition of our scope, as in, if there is a set where wehave a passage and something which is out of scope is mentioned with exception. Should we evaluate that choice on other grounds. i.e flow, tone too?4) should be out of scope. Personality difference is a new idea.

3) could be correct. How to decide between 3 and 4?Official Answer- 4.

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 6:33 am said:The passage , in the last lines , explains why personality similarities are important. Option (4) takes this forward by explaining what happens if the personalities do not match. Option (3) is a reiteration of what has already been stated,and can be eliminated.

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GPon April 25, 2013 at 2:54 pm said:Choice 1, 2 and 5 have been correctly eliminated.

Choice 3 is incorrect on account of continuity (here repetition of an idea) it is the same as ..it is primarily personality similarity that influences marital happiness

Reply ?Kaku on April 11, 2013 at 5:53 pm said:Existentialism is the view of life which focuses on a man and in so doing deniesthat any man is to be measured or equated against any class called man in any sense of experience. Since man traditionally is classified in terms of his mind,body and will against the framework of an external world, the existential position denies, utterly, the certainty of any external world, as object, and denies,utterly, the assertion that any rule physical, emotive, or intellectual is validin relation to the single individual. __________________ .

(1) The exponent of existentialism considers the traditional world to be one ofillusion.(2) Man is not an accidental expression of colliding atoms which continuously move in a randomfashion.(3) It is quite interesting to analyze organized religion with this background.(4) It is the consciousness of a man that he is existing in terms of his own flowing of experience, a flow which is governed by natural laws.(5) Therefore, the existentialist is free to choose because there are no objective standards to inhibit or constrain his choice.

1) Could be correct: deductible from the passage: Is it a repetition of an idea

already mentioned? Isnt it continuing what has been said about traditional world.i.e. the author doesnt approve of the classifications done by the traditional world.

2) Scope: atoms-new idea3) religion: out of scope4) How to rule out this one?5) Scope: where does the question about his choice comes from? All we are talking about is that man is independent of the external world, contradictory to traditional classifications.



OA:5Was this an easy/moderate set?

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Team CLon April 25, 2013 at 6:13 am said:This is not an easy question. The passage states that Existentialism means thatman is defined only by his own experiences and should not be classified againstany preconceived class or experience. Option (4) sums up this definition by saying that it is only the consciousness of existence that defines a man ( accordingto existentialism ) and he should be governed only by natural laws ( and not according to the predefined classes ).In this option it refers to Existentialism. Option (a) is not correct as the passage only states the position of existentialists that man should not be measured in terms of the external world. This does notmean that they consider the world illusionary.The other options , as you correctly pointed out, are out of scope.

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GPon April 25, 2013 at 3:11 pm said:Difficult question.You have correctly eliminated Choice 2, 3 and 5.

Choice 1 is also out of scope illusionHence the only remaining choice choice (4) is the answer

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Pulkiton August 20, 2013 at 12:09 pm said:What does OA: 4 mean? Does it mean that option 4 is the correct choice? But according to GP, the correct option is 1. Sir, please clarify this.

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on August 22, 2013 at 5:13 am said:Pulkit, the correct answer is Choice (1). Statements 3, 2 and 4 form a coherentparagraph.

Reply ?Kaku on June 5, 2013 at 3:25 pm said:Choose the odd one out (the one that does not fit the context) in this para jumble set:-

1.There is no doubt that hedge-fund managers have been good at making money forthemselves.2.With keen eyes and sharp brains, they spot and exploit inefficiencies in the markets.

3.HEDGE-fund managers are the smartest investors around.4.Or at least that is what the industry tells its clients.

My take is 2 follows 3 for sure. So, 1/4 is to be checked. 4 looks out of context because industry is used. Hedge fund industry is not being talked about. It is the managers who are being talked about.

OA: 4

GP sir: Kindly help me with this



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GPon June 12, 2013 at 7:26 am said:Kaku, you are right that 3 and 2 are connected. Additionally 3,2 and 4 form a coherent chain. 4 says that 3 & 2 are what the industry (hedge fund) tells the clients.

Reply ?Kaku on June 5, 2013 at 4:18 pm said:Sir, solving these PCs by your approach I think I missed out on something. Kindly let me know what is it?

Q1. Dozens of muscles are exercised when one laughs heartily. Endorphins get activated in the brain promoting a sense of joy and well-being. Also, many scientific studies have pointed to the healing effect of laughing. And when one is ableto laugh at oneself, there is an added psychological benefit too.

a)For we will be able to laugh at our mistakes and handle criticism better.b)For this signals to others and ones own self that one is emotionally secure and comfortable under ones skin.

B) others is used, so it is a violation on account of scale.

A) seems correct but intuitively not the best optionOA is b)Why B despite violation of scale, or am I wrong in eliminating this? No violation?

Q2. AFTER the binge of the holidays, many stumble into January with a hangover,some fragile resolutions and a desire to shed a few pounds.Alas, few will benefit from rigid calorie-counting or cabbage-soup slurping. In a recent study of 31long-term diet plans, the American Psychological Association found that up to two-thirds of participants ended up heavier than before they started. Some diets are more sensible than others, but any regimen that promises swift and dramatic results will doom most followers to failure. Weight-loss pills and surgery are similarly ineffectiveand sometimes dangerousover time.

a)Besides, there have been other gurus, plans, drugs and devices, but most offershort-lived results and long-term angst.b)Lasting changes need slow but steady modifications to lifestyle.c)Yet girth-management is big business, full of charismatic hucksters and fake science (fat-burning lip balm?), earning $40 billion a year in America alone.

a) Repetition because weight loss pills has already been talked about. So, no question of drugs or the use of the word other with drugs allows this and doesnt makethis redundant?b) Too generalized, could be a choice.c) girth management business is a new idea.Where am I wrong?

OA is C. Was this an easy/ moderate set?I remember a similar set came in CAT 12 where the next idea could have continuedthe para but it was a new idea just like in this example and I eliminated that option.

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GPon June 12, 2013 at 7:43 am said:Q1. There is no violation of scale in B it is infact giving the reason for the l



ast sentence in the passage. Others is in context with oneself.Statement A on the other hand is repeating the last sentence and not giving a reason for it, hence A is incorrect on account of continuity.

Q2. You are on target with Statement A .Statement B: incorrect on account of continuity. Would have made sense after ..doom most followers to failure. or just before the last sentence.Statement C: Okay on continuity, takes the last point forward.Weight loss pills are ineffective..yet it is good business.

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rajeev mahereon September 13, 2013 at 3:19 am said:but sir, according to passage they r talking about diets first then they statedabout experiment in which they says dieting results in failure and option A yetit repeats summarizes they para but option C shift d focus from to its market

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GPon September 14, 2013 at 7:34 am said:Rajeev, the Yet.. in option C tells us that despite the ineffectivness of the remedies, this is good business and hence on account of continuity it is correct.

Reply ?Kaku on June 11, 2013 at 8:47 pm said:This question is from CL proc mock 2

My lapse from faith occurred as is usual among people on our level of education.In most cases, I think, it happens thus: a man lives like everybody else, on the basis of principles not merely having nothing in common with religious doctrine, but generally opposed to it; religious doctrine does not play a part in life,in interaction with others it is never encountered, and in a mans own life he never has to reckon with it. Religious doctrine is professed far away from life and independently of it.________________

a)It will often happen, perhaps from the nature of things, that it is impossibleto master and express a religious idea.b)In the view of doctrinal developments in general, it cannot be denied that those which relate to the objects of faith have a character of their own, and mustbe considered separately.c)If it is encountered, it is only as an external phenomenon disconnected from life.d)It is the most difficult thing to contemplate upon.

A doctrines definition includes ideas, right?Now the answer choice a) has been eliminated on grounds that the author is talking about doctrine, not an idea.c) is the OA. However, dont you think that it is a repetition of what has been sa

id. It is implied from the last line of the para.Why should c) not be eliminated? Why would one eliminate a)? Had the choice been impossible to master a religious idea rather than impossible to master and expressa religious idea, would you go for a)?

Kindly explain this query. I am anticipating that the amount of time that goes in typing would not be snubbed. I dont intend to be insolent here, by any means. Its just that I am itching to use my vocab wherever I can :D

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GPon June 12, 2013 at 7:04 am said:Kaku, In future do not type the question, just mention the Q.No and the Paper, in this case Proc Mock 2 Q 31 would have been sufficient. Coming to the question,the paragraph states that religion does not play any role in day to day life ofmen and there is hardly any interaction with religion. Now on to the choices:Choice a: Incorrect on account of scope, this choice is discussing mastering andexpressing a religious idea.Choice b: Incorrect on account of scope and continuity.Choice c: Can be correct on account of scope and continuity. This is taking thelast sentence to completion and also consistent with the fact that interaction with religion is accidental.Choice d: Incorrect on account of continuity as it is not taking the last sentence forward.Correct answer: Choice c.

Reply ?Vishwaas on June 28, 2013 at 2:55 pm said:Proc mock 3 ques 52

The solution says option B can be ruled out because it logically goes against thelast sentence which states that Arthur seems to have woken up to the harsh reality.

why cant option B be correct ??? option B takes into account the opening test match in chennai and the fact that he didnt do his bit then but after the defeat in the two matches he has woken up .

How is this logic wrong.

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GPon June 30, 2013 at 1:29 pm said:Vishwaas, Option (b) is incorrect on account of continuity. It would make senseafter Choice (a)

Reply ?hitesh on August 16, 2013 at 6:12 pm said:Sir, Is 2 months time sufficient to crack the CAT 2013 ? PLEASE DO REPLY.

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GPon August 17, 2013 at 5:25 am said:Hitesh, it is sufficient if you can put in about 8 hours per day.If you are enrolled with CL for a classroom program then focus on Mock CATs, TetGym Adaptive, MCQs at the end of Fundabooks and past CAT papers.If you are not enrolled with CL then consider the option of enrolling for Smart

CAT Cracker + Test Gym + Smart Test Cracker (Test Series). You can enroll at your nearesrt CL center or online at http://www.careerlauncher.com/ecenter/EProduct.jsp

Reply ?Rahul on August 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm said:Hi Sir ,

Please put a blog post on Rules to Master Para Jumbles . It would be of great help. Thanks in advance



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GPon August 17, 2013 at 12:43 pm said:Rahul, sure will try to write one.

Reply ?Rahul on August 18, 2013 at 6:51 am said:Hi Sir, please explain Q51 of unproc mock 5.I am not satisfied with the solution given in Unproc 5 solution . My approach tothe wrong answer choice C is given below:CB looks a mandatory pair to me. this approach in C refers to the secular, rationalist education in BDA also seems to be a mandatory pair as D tells beforehand why He inspired emulators in several countries and aroused the enmity of the church.

Reply ?akash on August 18, 2013 at 7:32 pm said:Sir, Im a non-engineer. I have almost completed funda books exercises. Now, should I consult book by Arun Sharma or re-do all the exercises of cl material. Im still not confident in many areas of Quant. And sir, please upload funda book videos of algebra, number system, geometry. Request!!

and sir your pedagogy helps non-engineers a lot!!

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GPon August 19, 2013 at 8:30 am said:Akash, you should redo the important MCQs from the CL exercises and the funda-books, practice questions from Test Gym and also attempt the section tests in theTake Offs (Verbal Ability and QADI).

Reply ?Mohit Singhal on August 19, 2013 at 1:20 pm said:Sir,i have finished all the funda books in quant(except P&C which i m nvr able t

o understand)and i have also given all the section and topic tests on sis,but still,i am only scoring between 35-40 marks in quant in the mocks,even i am analyzing the mocks regularly,still though i am not getting where the problem lies andthere is not enough time left..can u please help

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GPon August 20, 2013 at 7:05 am said:Mohit, are you revising the important questions from all the Mocks, section tests and Fundabook MCQs at least once a week? Revision will usually lead to betterscores.

Reply ?Chirag on August 20, 2013 at 2:20 pm said:SirCan u plz help in this question

1. Making people laugh is tricky.A. At times, the intended humour may simply not come off.B. Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds.C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do not even begin to set the



cash registers ringing.D. Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.6. There are indications that in substituting the hardsell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath-water.

a.CDBAb.ABCDc.BADCd.DCBAe.CADB

Answer is BADC but I think A goes perfectly with starting sentence. Continuity of B with first sentence looks inconsistent.

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GPon August 24, 2013 at 8:36 am said:Chirag, Both Statement A & B can come after 1 but B is a better choice.Statement B: ..commercials can fall flat on two grounds. Hence the next two statements should give these two ground and they are given in Statement A and D. HenceBAD is a combination.

Reply ?Paresh Sinha on August 20, 2013 at 5:49 pm said:Thank You Sir!!!

Reply ?ankita on August 21, 2013 at 9:34 am said:sir, how close is the difficulty level of the questions of test gym (L2 and L3)to the real CAT questions ???

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GPon August 22, 2013 at 4:28 am said:

Ankita, similar to or more difficult than CAT.

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ankitaon August 22, 2013 at 6:51 am said:okay :-)sir ,I have completed my fundabooks n m practising test gym these days where I get decent score but m not able to improve my score in mock cat . I m not able tofind my fault that where m lagging.

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GPon August 26, 2013 at 4:43 am said:Ankita, along with practice you need to focus on revision also. Please refer tomy blogpost Things you must-do after every mock you take for details.

Reply ?Saurabh Bhatia on August 22, 2013 at 2:05 pm said:Sir,i have finished the vocabulary book which is provided to us in the first packet(done with all the words in the book and exercises at the back).I would liketo know if is that sufficient or i need to go for some other material?



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GPon August 24, 2013 at 8:41 am said:Saurabh, please refer to my blogpost Crack Vocab & Sentence Correction in 60 days for guidance on Vocabulary.

Reply ?Ashish Singh on August 24, 2013 at 12:57 pm said:Sir,i have a problem in this question of quant(from Proc Mock-5).

Q)If (a*b)^(c*d)=(e*f),(c*d)^(e*f)=(a*b)(e*f)^(a*b)=(c*d)where a,b,c,d,e,f are all non zero integers,then the sum of all possible valuesof (a+b+c+d+e+f) will be

a).8b).6c).0d).16

the solution provided marks the answer as 0,but i am not getting that why the an

swer is only 0,why it isnt 6 because at the very first look on the question,mostof us will mark the answer as 6 only,so why the answer is 0 only???

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GPon August 26, 2013 at 4:38 am said:Ashish, please check the video analysis of the question. It has been explained there.

Reply ?prashant gupta on August 26, 2013 at 8:52 pm said:Sir,i am facing a serious problem.Whenever i give a mock(quant section),i dont kn

ow what happens to me that time and i dont attempt and even not able to identifythe questions which i can do very easily.And when the mock gets over,once againi try to do all the questions in 70 minutes only without having a look at the solutions.Then everytime i notice that my score always get double from what i am able to score in mock.I am able to solve most of the questions very easily whichi could have solved in that 70 minutes time too but i dont know what happens to me that time.In proc mock-7 too,my score in quant was 29,but when i solved again(without solution),i was able to score 49 marks.What should i do so that i can get out from this disater.

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GP

on September 1, 2013 at 5:58 am said:Prashant, please call me at 9811155160 to discuss the issue.

Reply ?Vishal on August 28, 2013 at 5:04 am said:Hello Sir,

Great article. Please give some guidelines for paragraph sequencing questions.

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ashish gupta on August 28, 2013 at 4:02 pm said:Sir your insightful article on parajumbles is much awaited by me

Reply ?Pooja Singh on August 29, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:Great tips sir! Thank you for the guidance.

Reply ?priya on August 29, 2013 at 3:49 pm said:Mr GP would you please apply you rules on this question

Many people certainly do have a sense that, if you do physics, you cant avoid philosophy. But different conclusions are drawn from this. Some dismiss the philosophers, saying its the physicists who are the ones really doing the philosophy; while others complain that the problem with physicists is that theyre doing philosophy,___ a) and they are doing it well.b)but theyre not equipped to do it.c)and paying less attention towards their main domain i.e. Physics.d)but with vested interests like fame that outlives their otherwise mundane life.

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GPon August 30, 2013 at 5:45 am said:Priya, my answer is Choice (b). Explanation is given below:Choice a. Incorrect on account of continuity and tone.Choice b. Correct on account of continuity and tone.Choice c. Incorrect on account of scope.Choice d. Incorrect on account of scope.

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priyaon September 3, 2013 at 5:44 am said:Thanks a lot ..boss

Now I really believe that your fundas work.BUT..(Its a long but)..I have encountered some problem when answer options are the first line of next paragraph , sincenext paragraph can start with a new idea.(I have came across many such questions). Can you please help me with this one.

After six years in economic doldrums and despite the US economys rally many business leaders across the globe still seem paralysed when it comes to growth strategies.

a)Were in the midst of the longest and most perplexing recessionary period ever

b)Despite all this, two factors are fairly clear: one, business leaders have alw

ays lived with uncertainty. Two, if money is not invested to spur real growth, expansion and innovation, its certain that none of these will occur.

c)For example, mergers and acquisitions are down 14% globally since 2008 and have plummeted 35% in Europe.

d)Business leaders can anticipate change by understanding that a lot of what seems like uncertainty is actually unfamiliarity

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priyaon September 5, 2013 at 3:25 am said:Reply Please.?

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GPon September 8, 2013 at 6:42 am said:Priya, apologise for the delay, I was travelling and could not respond earlier.The paragraph ends with introducing the paralysis of business leaders and the correct my answer choice should take the thought forwards.Choice a. Incorrect on account of continuity. Also goes against the initial thought of the paragraph.Choice b. Incorrect on account of continuity and scope (introduces new idea)Choice c. Could be correct on account of continuity example of paralysis of business leaders.Choice d. Incorrect on account of tone and continuity.

Correct answer: Choice c.

Reply ?Ipsita Mishra on August 31, 2013 at 1:00 pm said: Typically, the question creator will take a short paragraph from a book or an ar

ticle and remove the last sentence and your Para Completion question and the correct answer choice are ready. The only thing missing are the three incorrect choices.EPIC!And thank you so much for the articles. I found them today and am so glad i did!

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Gejoon September 1, 2013 at 4:25 am said:Thanks Ipsita

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Samapika Draghima on August 31, 2013 at 6:41 pm said:Can the last sentence in a para completion introduce a new idea? Is there any generalised rule for this??

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GPon September 1, 2013 at 6:03 am said:Samapika, the last statement is a culmination of the idea/thought in the para and should not be introducing a new idea.

Reply ?Ashok on September 2, 2013 at 1:45 pm said:

Thank you sir.Can you also share an article on tips to crack Out of Context kind of questions.

Reply ?Samapika Draghima on September 4, 2013 at 5:47 am said:But sir in many para completion questions the given correct ans is a new idea(though not out of context). The explanation usually given is that it takes the idea/ argument forward.

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GPon September 4, 2013 at 9:07 am said:Samapika, it is a function of the choices. Our task is to pick up the best amongthe choices. Something that takes the idea forward is okay in terms of Continuity.

Reply ?jaswanth on September 9, 2013 at 10:52 am said:THANK U SIR .FOR YOUR VALUABLE TIPS.THIS REALLY WORKS IN MY PROCS AND OTHER EXAMS

Reply ?Sharan Bakshiram on September 12, 2013 at 3:16 am said:thank you sir for these rules..it really helped me in solving para completion questions fast and with good accuracy.. Sir, im facing problems with para jumbles.it consumes a lot of time and i end up choosing the incorrect option most of the time. so Sir, plz shed some light on how to solve para jumbles questions also.

Reply ?Sharan Bakshiram on September 12, 2013 at 3:22 am said:and Sir if u can include the special type of para jumbles questions, that wouldbe great..

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