CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1999
Question . 111
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. The reconstruction of history by post- revolutionary science texts involve more than a multiplication of historical misconstructions.
A. Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows textbooks treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.
B. Those misconstruction render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a functions.
C. But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to follow.
D. As pedagogy this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.
6. Science has reached its present state by series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modern body of technical knowledge.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(a) Both sentence B and sentence number 1 refer to historical mis-constructions, thus sentence B follows the sentence number 1. This is followed by A, which explains B and then by D, which talks about the theory of teaching. Lastly the sentence in the logical sequence is C, which talks about the impression which is most likely to follow in pedagogy is combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and occasional systematic misconstruction