Multiple choice

Directions: In the following items each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. There are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out of the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1 : When you leave your house, concentrate your mind on a subject. S6 : It is idle to pretend that your mind is incapable of concentration. P : Bring the mind back by the scruff of the neck. Q : You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere. R : Before you have reached the station you will have brought it back about 40 times. S : You will not have gone ten yards before your mind has skipped away under you very eyes and is playing round the corner with another subject.

  1. R P S Q

  2. R S P Q

  3. P S Q R

  4. S P R Q

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

After the instruction to concentrate (S1), the passage describes the immediate distraction (S) and the need to pull the mind back (P). This process is repeated many times (R) until success is achieved through perseverance (Q), leading to the conclusion in S6.