CAT Para Jumbles questions with solutions
Rearrange jumbled sentences into a coherent paragraph. 75 questions from our 2016–2025 CAT pattern papers. Each has the answer and a full solution.
CAT 2025
- Arrange them in the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer. 1. This is because coral polyps depend on symbiotic algae living…
- Arrange them in the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer. 1. Yet field trials repeatedly show that farmers using such…
- Yet the very features that made maps useful for administration — uniform scale, standard symbols, an implied view from nowhere in particular — also…
- This is why translated poetry so often reads as competent but strangely flattened: the translator has correctly rendered denotation while quietly…
- Coral polyps, in turn, expel the algae when stressed by unusually warm water, a process visible to us as coral bleaching. 2. Coral reefs owe their…
- This is why libraries in ancient Alexandria and Baghdad devoted enormous resources to translating texts from one language into another, treating…
CAT 2024
- Yet extracting drinkable water from a comet is not a matter of simply melting the ice, since much of it is bound so tightly to dust and organic…
- Economists call this a coordination problem: each keyboard layout's usefulness depends entirely on how many other people already use it, not on its…
- This is why translated poetry is so often described as a different poem inspired by the original rather than a faithful copy of it. 2. A translator…
- Economists call this phenomenon path dependence, and it explains outcomes that look irrational only if one ignores the history that produced them. 2.…
- Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer (e.g., 51234). 1. This is why, historians argue, the printing press did…
- Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer (e.g., 4123). 1. Yet the tax's defenders argue that critics overstate…
CAT 2023
- Only later did geologists realize that the fossils embedded in the canyon's lower strata were millions of years older than those found near its rim.…
- As a result, many households now keep a small reserve of cash specifically for situations where digital payment is unavailable or impractical. 2.…
- Consequently, several node operators began proposing changes to the protocol's core validation rules, a step normally taken only in extreme…
- Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers (e.g., 4123) as your answer. 1. The chief obstacle, however, was not conceptual but…
- Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers (e.g., 4123) as your answer. 1. This meant that a single bad harvest, rather than…
- Directions: The five sentences below, labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct sequence of…
- Directions: The four sentences below, labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct sequence of…
CAT 2022
- This is because glass, technically an amorphous solid, lacks the rigid atomic lattice of a true crystal, allowing it to be reshaped by heat far more…
- Consequently, central banks now spend considerable effort managing not just interest rates but the language surrounding them, since a poorly worded…
- Termite mounds, for instance, maintain remarkably stable internal temperatures and humidity through networks of ventilation shafts that passively…
- The four sentences below, numbered 1 to 4, can be arranged into a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order and key in the sequence of numbers…
- The five sentences below, numbered 1 to 5, can be arranged into a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order and key in the sequence of numbers…
- Yet within a generation, refrigeration technology had made the seasonal calendar of eating largely optional for anyone with access to a supermarket.…
- Economists call this the 'winner-take-most' dynamic, and it now shapes industries far beyond the technology sector where it was first identified. 2.…
- Bee colonies, it turns out, use a strikingly similar mechanism: when a scout bee finds a promising nest site, it performs a waggle dance whose vigour…
CAT 2021
- Yet compasses had existed in China for centuries before their navigational role emerged, having first served as tools for geomancy and divination. 2.…
- Because groundwater moves slowly, often only metres per year, pollutants introduced decades ago can still be migrating toward wells that have not yet…
- Early spectral classifications relied only on the visible strength of absorption lines, grouping stars in an order that seemed logical at the time…
- The four sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct order as a four-digit number. 1. Yet the reef's…
- The four sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Enter the correct order as a four-digit number. 1. This meant…
- The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order and key in the…
- The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order and key in…
- The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order and key in the…
CAT 2020
- Yet the very features that make coral reefs biologically rich also make them acutely vulnerable to small shifts in ocean temperature and chemistry.…
- Central banks have traditionally set a single policy interest rate, using it as a blunt instrument to cool or stimulate an entire national economy.…
- Before the printing press, a single scribal error could persist for generations, copied faithfully from manuscript to manuscript by copyists with no…
- 3142). 1. Yet this same instinct for pattern-matching also produces systematic errors, causing people to see meaningful shapes in what is actually…
- 3142). 1. Coral reefs, though they occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor, support an estimated quarter of all known marine species, making…
- This is not a flaw in the sport but a feature of it: chess rewards patient calculation over improvisational flair, and speed variants exist precisely…
- Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests of the sea, a comparison meant to convey their staggering biodiversity relative to their small…
- Yet translators of poetry rarely aim for that kind of fidelity, because a word-for-word rendering usually destroys exactly the qualities — rhythm…
CAT 2019
- This made the printing press not merely a technological innovation but a catalyst for religious, scientific, and political upheaval across Europe. 2.…
- Yet the octopus's brain accounts for only a fraction of its total neurons; the majority, some two-thirds, are distributed along its eight arms. 2.…
- Consequently, small changes in prevailing wind patterns or ocean currents can trigger disproportionately large shifts in a region's climate, a…
- As a result, later editions of the dictionary began silently correcting the entry, but the error had by then propagated into other reference works…
- Yet by the time the fossil evidence became undeniable, the theory had already been abandoned by most of the scientific establishment. 2. In the early…
- This is because refrigeration slows, but does not stop, the microbial and enzymatic processes that cause food to spoil. 2. Refrigerators are often…
- Economists call this the winner's curse: in a competitive bidding process, the winning bid is disproportionately likely to be the one that most…
- Termite mounds, for instance, maintain remarkably stable internal temperatures through a network of chimneys and vents that passively channel air…
CAT 2018
- 2413. 1. As a result, coral reefs, though they occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor, host roughly a quarter of all known marine species.…
- 2413. 1. Yet by the 1970s, cheaper synthetic dyes and the decline of the whaling and textile industries that had sustained demand for it had pushed…
- 24153. 1. This has practical implications for aviation: aircraft flying eastward across the Atlantic or Pacific often route themselves to ride the…
- 24153. 1. Early bookkeeping in Mesopotamia used clay tokens, each shape representing a specific quantity of a specific good, such as a sphere for a…
- Coffee's spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula began in the 15th century, when it was cultivated and traded chiefly from the port city of Mocha. 2. By…
- Strict liability is a legal doctrine under which a party can be held responsible for damages without the injured party needing to prove negligence or…
- The five sentences below, labelled 1–5, can be arranged into a coherent paragraph. 1. In the 1770s, Joseph Priestley observed that a sprig of mint…
- Congestion pricing charges drivers a fee for entering a city's busiest zones during peak hours, aiming to reduce traffic volume rather than simply…
CAT 2017
- This was not mere administrative tidiness but an assertion of authority: only a central power secure in its legitimacy could plausibly tell millions…
- Counter-illumination solves this problem by matching the intensity of the glow to the residual light filtering down from the surface. 2. A fish…
- Independent contractor status lets platform firms avoid minimum-wage guarantees and employer contributions while still controlling workers through…
- For the Stoics, this was no mere coping mechanism but a conclusion drawn from a picture of the cosmos as a rational, providentially ordered whole. 2.…
- This meant that a coffee-house patron could, for the price of a single cup, sit for hours reading pamphlets and arguing politics with strangers of…
- Yet compound interest, working patiently over decades rather than years, will eventually overtake almost any linear rate of saving, however large. 2.…
- Octopuses, remarkably, achieve comparable feats of camouflage and problem-solving despite having a nervous system that diverged from ours over half a…
- A city's official language policy, in other words, is only ever part of the story; the languages that actually survive on its streets are shaped as…
CAT 2016
- Yet within a decade, refrigerated rail cars and steamships had turned meat, fruit and dairy into globally tradable commodities. 2. Before the advent…
- Economists call this the paradox of thrift: an action rational for one household becomes self-defeating when adopted simultaneously by all…
- Lichens are not single organisms but a partnership between a fungus and either an alga or a cyanobacterium, living so closely intertwined that the…
- The novelist revised the manuscript's opening chapter seven times, unsatisfied with how abruptly the protagonist's motivation was introduced. 2. Only…
- Yet global honeybee colony losses have risen sharply over the past two decades, driven by a mix of pesticide exposure, habitat loss, and parasitic…
- The five sentences below, labelled 1-5, can be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. 1. The concept of zero as a number in its…
- This rise in ambient noise can mask the acoustic signals these animals depend on, forcing some species to call louder, shift frequencies, or abandon…
- Selective breeding for size, speed, and temperament, developed by pastoral societies on the Eurasian steppe roughly 5,500 years ago, transformed the…