Para Jumbles is a crucial topic of the English Language Section. We have been receiving many queries from our readers about the ways to solve Para jumbles. So, today we are sharing with you all a few study tips that will help you attempt Para Jumbles questions easily.
Para jumbles, as the name indicates is basically a jumbled paragraph. You are provided a few sentences of a passage in random order and you need to arrange the sentences in the proper order to make a meaningful passage.
You may follow the tips below to understand the strategy to approach this topic -
1. First and foremost, read all the sentences carefully. Try to understand the central theme of the passage. This is essential because you can’t arrange the sentences in a logical order unless you actually understand what the passage is all about.
2. Try to identify the opening sentence of the passage. This will usually be the independent sentence in the options provided. Identifying this sentence is comparatively easy because this usually provides the introduction to the passage and hence is easy to spot.
3. Try to figure out the sentences that contain the transition words. These words will help change the idea of the passage from one point to another. This will help you understand the hierarchy of the sentences. There are a number of such words as – Similarly, Consequently, Likewise, Besides, Therefore, Meanwhile etc. Spot such words and then try to connect the sentences with others.
4. Look up the pronouns in the sentences. The personal pronouns (such as he, she, it, they, you, your etc.) or the demonstrative pronouns (such as this, that, these, those etc.) also help to a great extent to understand the order of the sentences. These help to point out the noun or the phrase of the previous sentence and hence ease the task of connecting the sentences.
5. Use of articles – Use of ‘a/an’ (indefinite articles) and ‘the’ (definite articles) also help identify the order of the sentences. ‘a/an’ is usually used to make a general statement or point out a noun while ‘the’ is usually used to refer back the previously discussed noun. If ‘a/an’ and ‘the’ both are used to point out the same noun, then the sentence containing ‘the’ will usually come after the sentence containing a/an.
6. Similar to the opening sentence, identifying the last sentence of the passage is also easy because it points out the conclusion of the passage. The last or the concluding sentence usually contains the same logic as that of the opening sentence. It gives the gist of the passage in brief and once you understand the central theme of the passage, identifying this sentence should be easy.
7. While arranging the sentences, make sure that the continuity of the passage is maintained.
Now, let us take up an example to understand the above tips better –
(A) However, a Charge card would require the card holder’s account in the concerned bank, the dues on the credit card can be paid by a cheque drawn from any bank.
(B) The difference between Credit and Charge cards is that in the case of Charge cards the amount becomes payable immediately on the debit to the account.
(C) The credit card might cause credit risk for the card-issuing banks though.
(D) Whereas no fees are levied if the full amount billed is paid within a given due date, a service fee/ interest is charged on the payment which is deferred.
(E) In the case of credit cards, the cardholder is sent a bill indicating the dues and he/ she has the option to pay the entire amount as soon as the bill is received or choose to pay only a certain percentage of the amount billed, in which case the cardholder gets a credit to the extent of the balance amount of the bill.
(F) Like other loan advances, Credit card dues may also have defaulted.
(G) In other words, a credit cardholder need not maintain an account with the card-issuing bank.
If you go through the sentences, you can clearly understand that the central theme of the passage is the difference between credit cards and charge cards. Now, our first task is to identify the opening sentence of the passage. If you go through the sentences, you will see that except B and C, all other sentences contain some transition words and hence cannot be the opening sentence. Sentence B clearly introduces the central idea of the passage while sentence C is clearly connected to some other sentence (it contains the word though, indicating that it will come subsequent to some other sentence). Hence, sentence B will be the first sentence of the passage.
Now, to arrange the remaining sentences, we need to look up the connection among the sentences. If we go through the sentences properly, you will see that sentence E should be the second sentence, while others will follow it (based on the connecting words they contain). Also, sentence E provides continuity to the first sentence. As far as the third sentence is concerned, we can see that sentence D follows E because it refers to the bill amount that has already been mentioned in sentence E.
If you look at sentence A and G, it is clear that G follows sentence A because G is the consequence of sentence A (since the dues on the credit card can be paid by a cheque drawn on any bank, hence, a credit cardholder need not maintain an account with the card-issuing bank).
This should be followed by sentence C since it is an effect of the fact mentioned in sentence G. Clearly, sentence F is the concluding sentence.
Hence, the correct order should be BEDAGCF.
Once you have arranged the sentences, do not forget to check the order once to make sure that you have arranged the sentences in proper logical order.
(B) The difference between Credit and Charge cards is that in the case of Charge cards the amount becomes payable immediately on the debit to the account.
(E) In the case of credit cards, the cardholder is sent a bill indicating the dues and he/ she has the option to pay the entire amount as soon as the bill is received or choose to pay only a certain percentage of the amount billed, in which case the cardholder gets a credit to the extent of the balance amount of the bill.
(D) Whereas no fees are levied if the full amount billed is paid within a given due date, a service fee/ interest is charged on the payment which is deferred.
(A) However, a Charge card would require the card holder’s account in the concerned bank, the dues on the credit card can be paid by a cheque drawn from any bank.
(G) In other words, a credit cardholder need not maintain an account with the card-issuing bank.
(C) The credit card might cause credit risk for the card-issuing banks though.
(F) Like other loan advances, Credit card dues may also default.
If you now go through the sentences, they make proper sense.
However, it would be better to attempt this topic once you are done with the Cloze test and Spotting errors.
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