Para Jumbles & Cloze Test: Finding Mandatory Pairs and Contextual Fillers
Techniques to reorder 6-sentence scrambled paragraphs and identify collocations in cloze test passages for SSC and Banking exams.
- Identify the independent introductory sentence (free from pronouns or transitional adverbs).
- Look for mandatory pairs: Noun followed by Pronoun, Acronym expanded followed by abbreviation.
- In Cloze Tests, determine the required part of speech (Noun, Verb, Adjective) before looking at options.
Cracking Sentence Rearrangements
Do not try to solve Para Jumbles by reading combinations sequentially. Search for definitive mandatory pairs and eliminate incompatible option combinations immediately.
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