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Para-Jumbles

De-mystifying the codes and tricks in text!

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What are Para-Jumbles?

A Simple Starter:

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What are Para-Jumbles?

A Simple Starter: Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon.

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What are Para-Jumbles?

A Simple Starter: Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon. 1. ABFCDE 3. BFCDEA 2. ACDEBF 4. CDEBFA

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What are Para-Jumbles?

A Simple Starter: Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon. 1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF

Down to these two options, can you deduce an answer from this step?

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What are Para-Jumbles?

A Simple Starter: Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon. 1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF

It will be hard to find an answer, as this question does not have one. Both combinations can be valid. This is the ambiguity that para-jumbles are stepped in.
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What are Para-Jumbles?

Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon. 1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF

This questions does not have a definite answer but the 3 things we are sure about in this paragraph are: a. Sentence A begins the paragraph. b. BF & CDE are three pairs of sentences that occur in a set sequence.
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What are Para-Jumbles?

Arrange the given sentences in a coherent manner :
A. Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player of all time. B. His favorite surface is the grass. C. He is ambidextrous. D. He can play forehands with his right hand as well as the left hand. E. But he can play the backhand only with his right hand. F. And his favorite tournament is Wimbledon. 1. ABFCDE 2. ACDEBF

The 3rd is: This is on the basis of opening sentence and most important and ONLY rule in PJs Always move General to Specific
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What are Para-Jumbles?

But what exactly is move General to Specific?

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What are Para-Jumbles?

But what exactly is move General to Specific? To move General to Specific is to move from an introductory sentence to one that provides details. In our case, statement A is the most general one, Introducing Roger Federer.

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What is a Para-Jumble?
A set of jumbled sentences that you need to straighten Paragraph + Jumbled

Para-Jumble

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What is a Para-Jumble?
A set of jumbled sentences that you need to straighten Paragraph + Jumbled

Para-Jumble

Remember, the sentences in a parajumble might actually be from different paragraphs.

In brief, para-jumbles are essentially a test of your reading skill.

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Thus, Para-jumbles are nothing else but another method to test your Comprehension skills.

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CLUES to solve a Para-Jumble

CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:
A. This is prime tiger country. B. Late March in Ranthambore , the world is all sunshine, crisp air and flowering tress. C. But in the late 1990s, tigers vanished from this open , rugged scrubland along the Aravallis. D. Today, in an ambitious conservation step, work is on here at a frenetic pace to bring back the Lord of the Jungle. 1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. CABD 4. BACD

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CLUES to solve a Para-Jumble

CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:
A. This is prime tiger country. B. Late March in Ranthambore , the world is all sunshine, crisp air and flowering tress. C. But in the late 1990s, tigers vanished from this open , rugged scrubland along the Aravallis. D. Today, in an ambitious conservation step, work is on here at a frenetic pace to bring back the Lord of the Jungle. 1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. CABD 4. BACD

CLUE 1: We identify statement B as the opening Sentence. This helps us Easily identify option 4 as the answer.
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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:

Lets have a look another example

A. The 1971 War changed the political geography of the subcontinent. B. Despite the significance of the event, there have been no serious books written about the conflict. C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill the gap. D. It also profoundly alerted the geo-strategic equations in South-East Asia.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. BADC 4. ADBC

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CLUE 1: Find a probable opening sentence:

Lets have a look another example

A. The 1971 War changed the political geography of the subcontinent. B. Despite the significance of the event, there have been no serious books written about the conflict. C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill the gap. D. It also profoundly alerted the geo-strategic equations in South-East Asia.
1. ACBD 2. CADB 3. BADC 4. ADBC

CLUE 1: We identify statement A as the opening Sentence. Another clue Is the fact that D follows statement A. This helps us easily identify option 4 as the answer.
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CLUE 2: Find a probable closing sentence:

A. Whether it is the energy crises, crime on the streets or meals lacking nutritious balance there inevitably are those who will believe advertising made it happen. B. Name a natural problem and someone will certainly find a way to blame it on advertising. C. The era of modern consumerism sparks endless debates over proposals to restrict advertising to children or require specific types of information in ads for cigarettes and liquor. D. While the problems are often easy to recognize, answer are elusive. 1. DBCA 2. BCDA 3. BACD 4. CBDA

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CLUE 2: Find a probable closing sentence:

A. Whether it is the energy crises, crime on the streets or meals lacking nutritious balance there inevitably are those who will believe advertising made it happen. B. Name a natural problem and someone will certainly find a way to blame it on advertising. C. The era of modern consumerism sparks endless debates over proposals to restrict advertising to children or require specific types of information in ads for cigarettes and liquor. D. While the problems are often easy to recognize, answer are elusive. 1. DBCA 2. BCDA 3. BACD 4. CBDA

CLUE 2: Were you able to identify statement D as the closing sentence? There is only one option with D at the end, making our job easier.
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CLUE 3: Locate Mandatory pairs

A. People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their mouths or an open cut. B. At first they look like perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy. C. A study estimates that in 1995, there were as many as 6700 reptilecaused salmonella infections. D. But lizards and other pets reptiles can harbor a salmonella bacteria that makes people sick. 1. BCAD 2. BCDA 3. ACBD 4. BDCA

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CLUE 3: Locate Mandatory pairs

A. People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their mouths or an open cut. B. At first they look like perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy. C. A study estimates that in 1995, there were as many as 6700 reptilecaused salmonella infections. D. But lizards and other pets reptiles can harbor a salmonella bacteria that makes people sick. 1. BCAD 2. BCDA 3. ACBD 4. BDCA

CLUE 3: Mandatory pairs are nothing else but a given sequence of sentences That will occur in a particular order only. In this example, DC is one such pair. Once you identify DC, the answer can be easily spotted.
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CAT Para-Jumbles
Lets try our hands at CAT Para-jumbles with These clues in our hands.

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q1: A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemys productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemys productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if youre really vicious, salt them. Now in the information era, destroying the enemys productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure. How do you do battle with your enemy? The idea is to destroy the enemys productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy. 1. FDEBAC 2. FCABED 3. DEBACF 4. DFEBAC

B.
C. D. E. F.

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q1: A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemys productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemys productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if youre really vicious, salt them. Now in the information era, destroying the enemys productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure. How do you do battle with your enemy? The idea is to destroy the enemys productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy. 1. FDEBAC 2. FCABED 3. DEBACF 4. DFEBAC

B.
C. D. E. F.

Answer: Option 1 based on the pair BAC, using our clue 3.

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q2.

A.
B. C.

D. E.

Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. He acknowledges too in fact he returns to the point often that best translators of poetry always fail at some level. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.
1. EACDB 2. ADEBC 3. EACBD 4. DCEAB

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q2.

A.
B. C.

D. E.

Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. He acknowledges too in fact he returns to the point often that best translators of poetry always fail at some level. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.
1. EACDB 2. ADEBC 3. EACBD 4. DCEAB

Answer: Option 3 based on the closing sentence D, clue 2

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q3: A. B. C. D. E. He felt justified in bypassing the Congress altogether on a variety of moves. At times he was fighting the entire Congress. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency. Bush was not fighting just the democrats. Representatives democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters. 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA

1. CADEB

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q3: A. B. C. D. E. He felt justified in bypassing the Congress altogether on a variety of moves. At times he was fighting the entire Congress. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency. Bush was not fighting just the democrats. Representatives democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters. 2. DBAEC 3. CEADB 4. ECDBA

1. CADEB

Answer: Option 2 is based on the following: 1. Identify the pair DB. 2. Option 2 eliminated as cannot start with D. 3. E forms the most general statement 4. EDA is a sequence describing the situation
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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q4: A. The two neighbours never fought each other. B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder. D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally. E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male. 1. BEDAC 2. DEBAC 3. BDCAE 4. BCEDA

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q4: A. The two neighbours never fought each other. B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder. D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally. E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male. 1. BEDAC 2. DEBAC 3. BDCAE 4. BCEDA

Answer: Option 1 based on the pair DAC, clue 2

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q5: A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome. B. In June 1944 Germanys military position in World War two appeared hopeless. C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed. D. Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland. E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic. 1. EDACB 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB

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CAT PARA-JUMBLES
Q5: A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome. B. In June 1944 Germanys military position in World War two appeared hopeless. C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed. D. Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland. E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic. 1. EDACB 2. BEDAC 3. BDECA 4. CEDAB

Answer: Option 2 is based on the following: 1. Identify opening sentence, which is B in this case. 2. EDA is a sequence describing the situation
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