0QUESTION
Five sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. Far worse than even in some poor African countries.
B. This remains an area of grave concern: opening the cages will not solve the problems of basic education and health so public-private partnerships may be needed.
C. Literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty and every other social indicator was always far worse in socialist India than in Asian miracle economies.
D. So, the socialist cage gave Indians neither economic growth nor social justice.
E. Vast sums of spending on health and education were wasted; teachers and health staff had an absenteeism rate of 18 % to 58 % but were protected from disciplinary action by strong trade unions.
(a)EDCAB (b) BACED (c) CAEDB (d) EDBCA
ANSWER
C The paragraph has a mandatory pair (D-B) as B carries further the idea of opening of the cages, which gets introduced in D. (C-A) is another mandatory pair. Statement C compares India’s performance on social indicators with that of Asian economies. Statement A further compares India’s performance with that of poor African countries. Only options (c) and (d) have both mandatory pairs. Option (d) gets negated as the paragraph must start with C, which introduces the Para. Option (c) aligns all the statements of the paragraph thereby making it coherent.
