Direction: Ordering of Sentences: This item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled…
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Direction: Ordering of Sentences:
This item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose your response accordingly.
This item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose your response accordingly.
S1: The examination system must be regarded as the chief wrecker of young nerves.
S6: If I become a Vice-Chancellor, my first act would be to abolish all examinations in my university.
P: It makes me jump out of the bed, all in a sweat.
Q: It does this by building up a tension, for a part of the year, all through one’s youth.
R: And after four decades, the same nervousness sometimes recurs to me in nightmares.
S: I remember the desperate nervousness that used to grip me from January to April every year.
The correct sequence should be:
S6: If I become a Vice-Chancellor, my first act would be to abolish all examinations in my university.
P: It makes me jump out of the bed, all in a sweat.
Q: It does this by building up a tension, for a part of the year, all through one’s youth.
R: And after four decades, the same nervousness sometimes recurs to me in nightmares.
S: I remember the desperate nervousness that used to grip me from January to April every year.
The correct sequence should be:
- RPQS
- RSPQ
- RQPS
- QSRP
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D - QSRP
S1 calls exams the wrecker of nerves; Q says how ('It does this by building tension'); S gives the author's own nervousness each year; R says it recurs after four decades in nightmares; P says it makes him jump out of bed; then S6. QSRP.
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