Para Jumbles: IPMAT practice questions

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Platforms now use software to detect suspicious patterns, such as many five-star reviews written on the same day.

2. Most shoppers read them, and many trust them as much as advice from friends.

3. Online reviews have become a powerful influence on what people buy.

4. This trust has created an incentive for sellers to post fake reviews.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. A sleep-deprived student often believes she is coping well.

2. The problem is that tiredness also weakens our ability to judge our own performance.

3. That is why the effects of poor sleep are so often underestimated.

4. Tests, however, show that her reaction time and memory have both declined.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. This spread of reading helped new ideas travel quickly across countries.

2. As a result, many more people could own and read them.

3. The printing press made books far cheaper than before.

4. Some historians argue that it changed religion, science and politics within a century.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Anything that does not serve it, however interesting, is left out.

2. Every slide and every example is then chosen to support that single point.

3. A good presentation begins long before the speaker stands up.

4. It begins with a clear answer to one question: what should the audience remember?

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Farmers downstream who depend on that water will need to plan for the change.

2. As glaciers shrink, this summer flow is expected first to rise and then to fall.

3. Rivers in the Himalaya are fed by both monsoon rain and melting glaciers.

4. In the dry months before the monsoon, meltwater keeps them flowing.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. If the real germ arrives later, the body recognises it and responds quickly.

2. Vaccines train the immune system without causing the disease itself.

3. They do this by presenting a harmless part or a weakened form of the germ.

4. The body responds by producing antibodies and memory cells.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Many firms therefore test several prices in small markets before choosing one.

2. Set it too low, and buyers may assume it is of poor quality.

3. When a new product is launched, the price is one of the hardest decisions.

4. Set it too high, and few people try the product.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. The first step in learning to cook is not a recipe but a habit.

2. Recipes then become guides rather than rules to be followed blindly.

3. A cook who tastes often notices early when something is missing.

4. That habit is tasting the food at every stage, not only at the end.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Their success came from searching millions of positions every second.

2. Computers proved that view only partly right when they began to beat world champions.

3. Strong human players, by contrast, look at only a few moves but judge them with remarkable insight.

4. Chess was once thought to be a test of pure calculation.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. One reason is that they offer credit to regular customers, often without any paperwork.

2. Another is that they deliver to homes in the neighbourhood within minutes.

3. Personal trust, it seems, can compete with low prices.

4. Small shops in Indian towns have survived the arrival of large supermarkets better than many expected.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. So a few minutes spent writing answers from memory may be worth an hour of rereading.

2. Many students believe that rereading their notes is the best way to revise.

3. Testing yourself, even when you get answers wrong, builds stronger memories than reading the same page again.

4. Research on memory suggests otherwise.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. The length of the waggle part tells them how far away the flowers are.

2. Honeybees communicate the location of food through a movement known as the waggle dance.

3. Using this information, other bees can find food they have never seen.

4. The direction of the dance on the honeycomb tells other bees which way to fly relative to the sun.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. This makes it accessible to children everywhere, rich or poor.

2. Football is often called the world's most popular sport.

3. Part of its appeal is that it needs almost no equipment.

4. A ball, or even a bundle of rags, and an open space are enough to start a game.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. In 1991, India faced a severe shortage of foreign exchange.

2. Its reserves were enough to pay for only a few weeks of imports.

3. These reforms opened many industries to private and foreign investment.

4. To avoid a default, the government pledged gold and began a series of economic reforms.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. They fail because they run out of cash before customers arrive in large enough numbers.

2. Most new businesses do not fail because their idea is bad.

3. Careful founders therefore track how many months of money they have left.

4. They cut costs early, long before the bank balance becomes an emergency.

Arrange the sentences in the most logical order.

1. Their roots also hold the soil and soak up rainwater that would otherwise flood the roads.

2. They cool the air around them, sometimes by several degrees on a summer afternoon.

3. A city's trees do much more than make streets look pleasant.

4. Yet when roads are widened, trees are usually the first thing to be cut.