CAT Odd Sentence Out questions with solutions
Pick the sentence that does not belong to a short paragraph. 60 questions from our 2016–2025 CAT pattern papers. Each has the answer and a full solution.
CAT 2025
- Lighthouses once relied entirely on human keepers, who maintained the lamp, logged weather conditions, and often lived in near-total isolation for…
- Early mechanical calculators used gears and levers to perform arithmetic, requiring the operator to turn a crank for each operation. 2. Electronic…
- Five sentences are given below, numbered 1 to 5. Four of them, when arranged in a specific order, form a coherent and cohesive paragraph. Identify…
- Five sentences are given below, numbered 1 to 5. Four of them, when arranged in a specific order, form a coherent and cohesive paragraph. Identify…
- Four of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not belong. 1. Honeybee colonies communicate the location of food sources through the 'waggle…
- Four of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not belong. 1. Venice was built on a lagoon of small islands specifically because the marshy…
CAT 2024
- Four of them can be logically ordered to form a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. Identify the sentence that does not belong. 1.…
- Four of them can be logically ordered to form a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. Identify the sentence that does not belong. 1. Early…
- Four of them can be arranged in a logical sequence to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the sentence that does not fit and enter its number as the…
- Four of them can be arranged in a logical sequence to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the sentence that does not fit and enter its number as the…
- Five sentences numbered 1–5 are given below. Four of them form a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. 1. Migratory birds rely on an internal…
- Five sentences numbered 1–5 are given below. Four of them form a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. 1. Coffee's spread across the world in…
CAT 2023
- Identify the ONE sentence that does not fit and enter its number as the answer. 1. The city's old tram network was dismantled in the 1960s to make…
- Identify the ONE sentence that does not fit and enter its number as the answer. 1. 2. Rising sea temperatures cause corals to expel the algae living…
- Four sentences related to a common theme are given below. Three of them can be logically combined to form a coherent paragraph. 1. Coral reefs cover…
- Four sentences related to a common theme are given below. Three of them can be logically combined to form a coherent paragraph. 1. Early clockmakers…
- Directions: Five sentences are given below, labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Four of them, when arranged in proper order, form a coherent paragraph. One…
- Directions: Five sentences are given below, labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Four of them, when arranged in proper order, form a coherent paragraph. One…
CAT 2022
- Identify the sentence that does NOT fit (enter only the sentence number). 1. Lighthouses once relied on keepers who lived on site, tending oil lamps…
- Identify the sentence that does NOT fit (enter only the sentence number). 1. Crop rotation, the practice of growing different crops sequentially on…
- Five sentences, numbered 1 to 5, are given below. Four of them can be arranged into a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. 1. Coral reefs are often…
- Five sentences, numbered 1 to 5, are given below. Four of them can be arranged into a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. 1. Interest rate…
- Four of them can be put together to form a coherent, meaningful paragraph. 1. 2. This disproportionate richness arises because reefs provide complex…
- Four of them can be put together to form a coherent, meaningful paragraph. 1. Early telephone operators were almost exclusively young women, a…
CAT 2021
- Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. 1. Lichens are composite organisms formed from a symbiotic…
- Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. 1. Double-entry bookkeeping, in which every transaction is…
- Identify the sentence that does not fit and enter its number. 1. The domestication of the horse around 3500 BCE transformed human mobility across the…
- Identify the sentence that does not fit and enter its number. 1. Deep-sea hydrothermal vents host ecosystems that derive energy not from sunlight but…
- Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph.…
- Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph.…
CAT 2020
- Four of them can be logically ordered to form a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. Identify the sentence number that does not belong. 1.…
- Four of them can be logically ordered to form a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. Identify the sentence number that does not belong. 1.…
- Four of them, when arranged in order, form a coherent paragraph. One sentence does not fit. Identify the number of the sentence that should be…
- Four of them, when arranged in order, form a coherent paragraph. One sentence does not fit. Identify the number of the sentence that should be…
- Four of them can be sequenced into a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. Identify the sentence that does NOT fit (enter its number). 1.…
- Four of them can be sequenced into a coherent paragraph, while one does not fit. Identify the sentence that does NOT fit (enter its number). 1.…
CAT 2019
- The Amazon rainforest generates a substantial portion of its own rainfall through a process known as evapotranspiration, in which trees release water…
- Behavioural economists have shown that people often evaluate outcomes relative to a reference point rather than in absolute terms. 2. A pay cut, for…
- Migratory birds rely on a range of navigational cues, including the position of the sun, the pattern of stars, and the Earth's magnetic field, to…
- 2. This density arises from the physical complexity of reef structures, which create countless microhabitats for organisms of vastly different sizes…
- Double-entry bookkeeping, developed by Italian merchants in the late medieval period, records every transaction as both a debit and a credit. 2. This…
- Octopuses possess three hearts, two that pump blood through the gills and one that circulates it to the rest of the body. 2. Their blood is blue…
CAT 2018
- Beekeepers have long known that a hive's productivity depends heavily on the health and fertility of its single reproductive queen. 2. When a queen's…
- The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a shipwreck off a Greek island in 1901, is now understood to be an astronomical calculator of remarkable…
- Permafrost, ground that remains frozen for at least two consecutive years, underlies roughly a quarter of the land area in the Northern Hemisphere.…
- Four of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. 1. Bees are responsible for pollinating a significant share of the world's flowering crops…
- Four of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. 1. The printing press, introduced in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, dramatically…
- Six sentences are given below, numbered 1–6. Five of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not fit. 1. Most websites and apps now track user…
CAT 2017
- Luciferin and luciferase together produce light through a chemical reaction called oxidation, releasing energy as photons rather than heat. 2.…
- Venuti argued that domesticating translations erase the foreignness of a source text, flattering the receiving culture's sense that its own language…
- The Julian calendar fixed a 365-day year with a leap day every fourth year, replacing the earlier, error-prone practice of intercalation. 2. Julius…
- Antarctica has no permanent human population, and the few thousand researchers stationed there at any time rotate through on fixed-term postings. 2.…
- Double-entry bookkeeping, developed by Italian merchants in the late medieval period, requires that every transaction be recorded in at least two…
- Coral reefs, though they occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor, are home to roughly a quarter of all known marine species. 2. This…
CAT 2016
- Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognise a pathogen before an actual infection occurs. 2. This training typically involves exposing…
- The 1904 St. Louis Olympics marathon is remembered as one of the strangest races in sporting history. 2. Competitors ran through choking dust on…
- Compound interest allows an investment to grow faster over time because interest is earned on both the original principal and on previously…
- Many cities have begun offering curbside collection of food scraps and yard waste for composting, diverting material that would otherwise decompose…
- Coffee cultivation is believed to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia, where local legend credits a goat herder with noticing his goats'…
- As solar and wind power generate electricity intermittently, depending on weather and time of day, storing surplus energy for later use has become a…