Questions on Jumbles are usually in a disordered form in terms of alphabets, phrases or sentences. The test-taker is expected to find a logical pattern and reorder the random arrangement of terms. Jumbles can be classified into the following three categories:
Word Jumbles are questions where individual alphabets of a word are jumbled and the test-taker has to find the word. In Sentence Jumbles, the test-taker has to rearrange phrases of a jumbled up sentence. Similarly, in Para Jumbles, the objective is to rearrange the jumbled sentences of a paragraph.
In sentence arrangement questions, a sentence is broken up into four or five segments and jumbled up. The segments must be sequenced correctly so as to form a coherent sentence that adheres to the basic grammatical rules and syntax.
The following list includes but is not limited to strategies and approaches for solving jumbled sentences:
The most common types of jumbled paragraph type of questions are the ones with 4, 5, or 6 sentences. In the 6 sentences jumbled paragraph type, sentence 1 and sentence 6 are fixed and the intervening 4 sentences alone are jumbled and named ABCD. The objective in all the above questions is to form a logically coherent paragraph.
The following list includes but is not limited to strategies and approaches for solving Sentence Jumbles.
Example Questions on Jumbles
Example 1 Identify the correct sequence.
1) depends not on merit and ability, but on quotas based on caste
2) or have a good work ethic as one of its core values
3) community and gender or any other criterion can hardly be stable
4) a society where access to education and jobs
a) 3241
b) 4231
c) 3214
d) 4132
Solution: The only phrase that can start the given sentence is, sentence 4. Sentence 3 follows sentence 1 as ‘caste, community and gender’ form part of the same list. Hence, option d is the correct answer.
Example 2 Identify the correct sequence.
1)1971 war changed the political geography of the subcontinent
2) Despite the significance of the event, there has been no serious book about the conflict
3) ‘Surrender at Dacca’ aims to fill this gap
4) It also profoundly altered the geostrategic situation in South-East Asia
a) 1324
b) 3142
c) 2143
d) 1423
Solution: Sentence 1 is the only sentence that does not have any pronoun referring to something else in the paragraph. Hence sentence 1 is most likely the starting sentence. Hence, choices ‘b’ and ‘c’ can be eliminated. There is a link between sentences 2 and 3 in that order. The ‘gap’ mentioned in sentence 3 is the absence of a serious book on the conflict mentioned in sentence 2. This link is present in choice ‘d’ and hence is the answer.
For more examples read the article Jumbled Sentences In Aptitude Test
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