PGDBA 2023 Question Paper | VARC

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Question 1 : The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. Then, when he spoke, he did not explicitly reject the result, though he did not concede, either.
2. For months, he had insinuated that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his rival, could only win if it was rigged.
3. When Lula won by a mere 1.8 per cent points, many people expected Mr. Bolsonaro to contest the result.
4. When Jair Bolsonaro lost his bid for re-election on October 30 he said nothing for 44 hours.

Explanatory Answer

Sentence 4 is the best opening sentence, as it sets the context. 41 is a strong link: Sentence 4 says that Bolsonaro said nothing for 44 hours after losing his bid for re-election; 1 follows this up with what he did say when he spoke eventually. 23 is also a link: Sentence 2 first mentions the full name of Bolsonaro's rival, so it goes before sentence 3. 4123 is the correct order.

The answer is '4, 1, 2, 3'

Choice B is the correct answer.

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