PrepRung

CAT 2024 Slot 3 · VARC · Para Jumbles · medium

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…

Numerical answer

The four sentences below, numbered 1–5, can be arranged into a coherent paragraph. 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 more than spread existing ideas — it changed the very nature of intellectual authority itself.
2. Before Gutenberg, a manuscript's accuracy depended entirely on the diligence of the scribe who copied it, and errors accumulated with each successive copy across generations.
3. The printing press, introduced in Europe in the mid-fifteenth century, transformed the way information was produced, copied and circulated.
4. Readers no longer had to rely on the good faith of a local scribe; instead they could compare printed editions against each other, and an error, once identified, could be corrected in every subsequent printing rather than perpetuated indefinitely.
5. Print, by contrast, allowed a single corrected text to be reproduced identically thousands of times over.
Show answer and solution

Answer: 32541

Sentence 3 is the natural opening, introducing the printing press as the topic. Sentence 2 sets up the 'before' state (scribal copying and error accumulation), which sentence 5 directly contrasts ('Print, by contrast...'). Sentence 4 then elaborates on what this contrast meant for readers, and sentence 1 draws the overall conclusion ('This is why...'). The coherent order is 3-2-5-4-1.
Report a mistake

Original question written in the CAT 2024 Slot 3 pattern and checked twice for the correct answer. Not an official question paper. How we write and check questions · Corrections policy · Report a mistake