CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1998
Question . 125
DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.
1. Good literary magazines have always been good because of their editors.
A. Furthermore, to edit by committee, as it were, would prevent any magazine from finding its own identity.
B. The more quirky and idiosyncratic they have been, the better the magazine is, at least as a general rule.
C. But the number of editors one can have for a magazine should also be determined by the number of contributions to it.
D. To have four editors for an issue that contains only seven contributions, is a bit silly to start with.
6. However, in spite of this anomaly, the magazine does acquire merit in its attempt to give a comprehensive view of the Indian literary scene as it is today.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(b) Sentence B follows sentence number 1, as B refers to the editors of the good literacy magazines given in sentence 1. C logically follows B, again refer to the editors and D directly links to the number of editors referred to in C. The last choice is A which is giving a different choice all together, however, it is in sequence with sentence number 6.