Questions on Paragraph Completion involve a paragraph with the last sentence missing. The test-taker is expected to choose the right sentence to complete the paragraph from a given set of four sentence options. Questions on Paragraph Completion assess the test-taker’s ability to identify flow in language and ideas as well as comprehension skills.
The following list contains various strategies and approaches that can be employed to solve Paragraph Completion questions.
The process of eliminating incorrect answer choices can help a test taker narrow down to the correct answer choice. The following list contains the types of answer choices that can be eliminated directly.
The audiences for crosswords and Sudoku, understandably, overlap greatly, but there are differences, too. A crossword attracts a more literary person, while Sudoku appeals to a keenly logical mind. Some crossword enthusiasts turn up their noses at Sudoku because they feel it lacks depth. A good crossword requires vocabulary, knowledge, mental flexibility and sometimes even a sense of humour to complete. It touches numerous areas of life and provides an “Aha!” or two along the way.
Solution: The first sentence suggests that the paragraph is speaking about the differences between crosswords and Sudoku. Choice ‘b’ introduces a new topic and hence can be eliminated. Choice ‘c’ gets eliminated because of ‘even by children’; the assumption has to be made that children lack ‘vocabulary, knowledge and mental flexibility’. The idea expressed in choice ‘d’ is extreme in nature. Through choice ‘a’, the comparison between crosswords and Sudoku is completed and hence is the correct answer.