1). In my view, a priority sector should be an area of market failure. 2).…

2023

1). In my view, a priority sector should be an area of market failure.

2). Priority sectors include agriculture, small scale industries, housing, exports, etc.

3). Economics say that a market has failed when the market does not provide efficient outcomes for society.

4). The government of India directs substantial bank credit to what it deems are 'priority sectors' for the Indian economy.

5). It is not clear how sectors get identified for the priority tag, as there is no clearly articulated logic.

6). Markets fail for a variety of reasons.

  1. A.

    425136

  2. B.

    361452

  3. C.

    136452

  4. D.

    254136

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Correct answer: A

In a sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) passage, the correct order begins with the one sentence that introduces the topic without leaning on a pronoun, an example, or a reference to anything not yet stated, and then follows the logical and referential links between the remaining sentences: an example follows the general claim it illustrates, a definition follows the term it defines, and a personal opinion follows the neutral context that prompts it.

  1. Sentence 4 is the only sentence that introduces "priority sectors" without depending on anything earlier, so it must open the passage.

  2. Sentence 2 follows 4 directly, because it lists concrete examples (agriculture, small scale industries, housing, exports) of the very "priority sectors" sentence 4 just named.

  3. Sentence 5 follows 2, turning that just-established list into a criticism: there is no clearly articulated logic for which sectors get the "priority" tag.

  4. Sentence 1 follows 5: having just read that no clear logic is articulated, the author offers his own criterion ("In my view...").

  5. Sentence 3 follows 1, defining the very term ("market failure") that sentence 1 just introduced.

  6. Sentence 6 closes the chain, generalising from that specific definition ("Markets fail for a variety of reasons").

Reading 4-2-5-1-3-6 end to end produces one continuous argument: what priority sectors are, examples of them, a criticism of how they are chosen, the author's own criterion, the definition of that criterion's key term, and a closing generalisation - no sentence needs anything from later in the sequence.

This gives the sequence 425136, which matches the option carrying that exact order.

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