Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last…
2025
Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (1 and 6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
1) Education is the cornerstone of human development.
A) A well-educated population contributes significantly to economic growth.
B) Countries that invest in education reap long-term benefits.
C) Besides economic benefits, education promotes social cohesion and civic responsibility.
D) It equips individuals with skills and knowledge to participate in modern society.
6) Hence, policymakers must prioritise educational reforms to ensure sustainable progress.
Answer: D. DABC — Concept: In a para-jumble whose opening and closing sentences are already fixed, the order of the middle sentences is decided by cohesion, not by preference.…
- A.
ABCD
- B.
BDAC
- C.
BACD
- D.
DABC
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Correct answer: D
Concept:
In a para-jumble whose opening and closing sentences are already fixed, the order of the middle sentences is decided by cohesion, not by preference. Three devices settle it: a pronoun or demonstrative must appear after the noun it refers to; an additive marker such as “Besides X” must appear after the sentence that established X; and the scope of a well-built argument widens step by step — from the individual, to the group, to the nation — before the closing sentence draws its conclusion.
Application:
Apply those three devices to the four jumbled sentences, one link at a time:
Sentence 1 introduces the topic noun “Education”. Sentence D opens with the pronoun “It”, which needs that noun standing immediately before it, so D fills the first of the four jumbled slots.
Sentence D speaks of what education gives an individual — it “equips individuals with skills and knowledge”. Sentence A widens the same idea to a group, “a well-educated population”, and names the first benefit, economic growth, so A follows D.
Sentence B widens the scope one step further, from a population to “countries that invest in education”, and states the long-term pay-off of the economic benefit that A has just introduced, so B follows A.
Sentence C opens with “Besides economic benefits”, an additive marker that presupposes the economic benefits already stated in A and B, and then adds the non-economic ones, so C fills the last of the four jumbled slots.
The jumbled block therefore runs D, A, B, C — the sequence DABC — and sentence 6, “Hence, policymakers must prioritise educational reforms…”, draws the conclusion that both kinds of benefit support.
Cross-check:
Read the finished paragraph 1–D–A–B–C–6: education is the cornerstone of human development, it equips the individual, a well-educated population drives economic growth, investing countries reap long-term benefits, and beyond economics education builds social cohesion — hence reform must be prioritised. Every pronoun has its antecedent before it, and “Besides economic benefits” has its economic benefits before it. Any order that places C before A and B leaves that additive marker with nothing to refer back to, and any order that separates D from sentence 1 leaves “It” without a clear antecedent.