Para Jumbles

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. (A) With all the bid information being available and tracked online, corruption has been considerably reduced. (B) Today, most i.e. over ninety-five percent households, in the city enjoy a broadband connection. (C) All city contracts are now bid for online. (D) Over twenty years ago the city government, central government and the private sector made a concerted effort to shift the economy to include IT. (E) As our cities continue to expand and become more complex, such a system will make governance more manageable. (F) This level of connectedness has changed not only the city`s economy but also how it is governed and how business is conducted.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. (A) With all the bid information being available and tracked online, corruption has been considerably reduced. (B) Today, most i.e. over ninety-five percent households, in the city enjoy a broadband connection. (C) All city contracts are now bid for online. (D) Over twenty years ago the city government, central government and the private sector made a concerted effort to shift the economy to include IT. (E) As our cities continue to expand and become more complex, such a system will make governance more manageable. (F) This level of connectedness has changed not only the city`s economy but also how it is governed and how business is conducted.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. (A) With all the bid information being available and tracked online, corruption has been considerably reduced. (B) Today, most i.e. over ninety-five percent households, in the city enjoy a broadband connection. (C) All city contracts are now bid for online. (D) Over twenty years ago the city government, central government and the private sector made a concerted effort to shift the economy to include IT. (E) As our cities continue to expand and become more complex, such a system will make governance more manageable. (F) This level of connectedness has changed not only the city`s economy but also how it is governed and how business is conducted.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. (A) With all the bid information being available and tracked online, corruption has been considerably reduced. (B) Today, most i.e. over ninety-five percent households, in the city enjoy a broadband connection. (C) All city contracts are now bid for online. (D) Over twenty years ago the city government, central government and the private sector made a concerted effort to shift the economy to include IT. (E) As our cities continue to expand and become more complex, such a system will make governance more manageable. (F) This level of connectedness has changed not only the city`s economy but also how it is governed and how business is conducted.

Which of the following should be the LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. A. Ironically, the same parents who are considered to be ignorant are thought to be very enlightened in choosing private schools over state-run ones. B. This is all the more reason why we should include them during the planning and implementation of the system. C. This is apparent at every stage from policymaking to implementation as critical decisions are made without the participation of the stakeholders, an attitude that can only be described as either arrogance or indifference. D. In reality, every parent decides which school is a good one, based on his/her own set of values, perceptions and aspirations. E. The root cause of most of the ills that plague our education system is the enormous distance that separates the power centres within the system and the schools where the action takes place. F. It is often said in defense of such an approach that poor parents are too ignorant to be partners in a meaningful dialogue.

Which of the following should be the SIXTH (LAST) sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. A. Ironically, the same parents who are considered to be ignorant are thought to be very enlightened in choosing private schools over state-run ones. B. This is all the more reason why we should include them during the planning and implementation of the system. C. This is apparent at every stage from policymaking to implementation as critical decisions are made without the participation of the stakeholders, an attitude that can only be described as either arrogance or indifference. D. In reality, every parent decides which school is a good one, based on his/her own set of values, perceptions and aspirations. E. The root cause of most of the ills that plague our education system is the enormous distance that separates the power centres within the system and the schools where the action takes place. F. It is often said in defense of such an approach that poor parents are too ignorant to be partners in a meaningful dialogue.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. A. Ironically, the same parents who are considered to be ignorant are thought to be very enlightened in choosing private schools over state-run ones. B. This is all the more reason why we should include them during the planning and implementation of the system. C. This is apparent at every stage from policymaking to implementation as critical decisions are made without the participation of the stakeholders, an attitude that can only be described as either arrogance or indifference. D. In reality, every parent decides which school is a good one, based on his/her own set of values, perceptions and aspirations. E. The root cause of most of the ills that plague our education system is the enormous distance that separates the power centres within the system and the schools where the action takes place. F. It is often said in defense of such an approach that poor parents are too ignorant to be partners in a meaningful dialogue.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. A. Ironically, the same parents who are considered to be ignorant are thought to be very enlightened in choosing private schools over state-run ones. B. This is all the more reason why we should include them during the planning and implementation of the system. C. This is apparent at every stage from policymaking to implementation as critical decisions are made without the participation of the stakeholders, an attitude that can only be described as either arrogance or indifference. D. In reality, every parent decides which school is a good one, based on his/her own set of values, perceptions and aspirations. E. The root cause of most of the ills that plague our education system is the enormous distance that separates the power centres within the system and the schools where the action takes place. F. It is often said in defense of such an approach that poor parents are too ignorant to be partners in a meaningful dialogue.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the question given below them. A. Ironically, the same parents who are considered to be ignorant are thought to be very enlightened in choosing private schools over state-run ones. B. This is all the more reason why we should include them during the planning and implementation of the system. C. This is apparent at every stage from policymaking to implementation as critical decisions are made without the participation of the stakeholders, an attitude that can only be described as either arrogance or indifference. D. In reality, every parent decides which school is a good one, based on his/her own set of values, perceptions and aspirations. E. The root cause of most of the ills that plague our education system is the enormous distance that separates the power centres within the system and the schools where the action takes place. F. It is often said in defense of such an approach that poor parents are too ignorant to be partners in a meaningful dialogue.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. It is a useful device to mark the difference between making on the one hand an assertion about something that might be true or false and, on the other, the verbal evincing of feelings towards something, which can be no more true or false than my action in biting my thumb. B. This may seem confusing, but the fact is that any utterance may perform more than one function or may be treated in more than one way at the same time. C. But, of course, it might very well be said that the most straight-forward way in which I can express my liking of somebody is simply to say that I like him, my statement is, that is to say, at the same time an expression of my liking. D. We need to be a little careful if we are not to tie ourselves in knots over this distinction between statement and expression.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Microsoft's success is a classic example of rights as it has many world rights to many software packages.
B. Also, as it happens nowadays, those who create the original design very often reap most of the benefits, due to the nature of technology and often because of various forms of protection - trade contracts or intellectual property rights.
C. Therefore, there is a definite need for India not only to derive benefits from the present software boom and demands, but also to prepare itself for the higher end of the market. D. Can this boom of software export and application last for decades, merely based on software developed in other advanced countries which is operated by our people, as application support personnel, data analysts and market developers?

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Brahmanism was the ethnic religion of India in this period and the caste system got a fresh incentive. B. However, the caste system had not assumed that rigidity in this period which we associate with it in the Muslim or in the beginning of the British period, in respect of, inter-marriage, inter-dining and professions. C. While the foundation stone for the revival of Brahmanism was laid in the Sunga, Kanva and Kushan dynasties, its real development came in the Gupta period (300 A.D. - 500 A.D.), the period called the Golden Age of Hinduism or the period of Hindu Renaissance. D. The prehistoric view that the Sudras should be content merely to become the servants of the twice-born was neither accepted in theory nor followed in practice.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. There would be no point in our trying to go into the various so called ‘Theories of Truth’ that have been produced and upheld by various philosophers. B. This attempt has in fact given rise to many well–known puzzles and many of them have arisen because of the number of different sorts of assertions that we should normally be prepared to call true or false, to which it is hard to say what sort of facts would correspond. C. There is just one of them that is worth mentioning here, the one which is known as the Correspondence Theory, according to which an assertion is true if, and only if, it corresponds to a fact.
D. This theory is worth mentioning because it arises precisely out of an attempt to build the everyday association between ‘truth’ and ‘fact’ into a systematic and consistent way of thought.

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Economic crises have the effect of ridding those national economies which are over expanding of some of their superfluous, ill-conceived, or precarious enterprises. B. The losses occasioned by economic crises are more apparent than real. C. A crisis constitutes a necessary purge which cleanses the social organism when it has become contaminated by unhealthy activities or weakened by extravagance induced by too much easy money.
D. They resemble those of a fruit tree which, after a period of too favorable weather, finds its branches overloaded with buds.