Sentence Rearrangement
🔒 Log in to trackOne PQRS jumble per Tier 1 shift and several paragraph jumbles in Tier 2 — all solved by the same chain method: tag each part's role (opener, pronoun continuation, contrast, conclusion), lock 2-3 mandatory pairs (noun→pronoun, a→the, cause→effect), then eliminate option strings layer by layer. Timeline markers and opener bans do most of the work.
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Track record in the exam
Questions per shift in recent SSC CGL papers.
Test difficulty mix (62 questions)
Question patterns exams keep repeating
Taken from previous-year papers. If a pattern is marked "very common", expect to see it in your exam.
PQRS with first and last sentences given
very commonSentences 1 and 6 are given, and the four middle parts are labelled P, Q, R, S.
Read the first and last sentences first.
Find pairs that must go together, then drop options that break a pair.
S1: Stubble burning chokes north India every winter. P: Farmers burn the leftover straw to clear their fields quickly. Q: The smoke drifts to the cities and forms thick smog. R: Some states now pay farmers for straw-cutting machines. S: This smog sends thousands of people to hospital. S6: Such machines must reach more farmers.
P: burning is the cause
Q: 'The smoke' comes after the burning
S: 'This smog' comes after Q, and R is the response
S6 'Such machines' follows R, so the order is PQSR
Jumbled paragraph (no fixed ends)
commonFour to six sentences are given with no first or last sentence.
Find the sentence that needs no other sentence to make sense; it goes first.
Attach the others using pronouns and linking words.
P: Their numbers, however, have been falling. Q: Pesticides are the main reason for this decline. R: Farmers planting hedges are helping to reverse it. S: Honeybees help pollinate many of our crops.
S names honeybees and stands alone
P: 'Their' refers to honeybees
Q: 'this decline' refers to P
R: 'reverse it' comes last, so the order is SPQR
Finding the opening sentence
very commonSeveral parts begin with a pronoun or 'this + noun'; only one introduces a new subject.
Read each part as if it came first.
A part that points back to something (it, this, they) cannot open.
Which part opens the paragraph? A: This habit worries doctors. B: Many people sleep with their phones beside the bed.
A says 'This habit'
There is nothing before it to explain 'this habit'
B introduces the habit
Answer: B
Finding the closing sentence
very commonOne part has a word like 'therefore' or 'clearly', or the last given sentence starts with 'such' or 'these'.
See what the last sentence points back to.
The part that supplies it goes just before.
S6: Such a response has encouraged the colony to open a reading corner. Which part is last? A: Within a month, two hundred people had borrowed books. B: Volunteers arranged the books on these shelves.
'Such a response' refers to something people did
The borrowing of books is that response
B comes earlier, before the borrowing
Answer: A is last
Pairs that must go together
very commonTwo parts are linked by a pointer: a name then 'he', 'a bag' then 'the bag', 'this problem', 'Yet'.
Write each linked pair as a block (PS, SQ = PSQ).
Trust grammar links such as a → the.
Which part comes first? X: The traveller left a small clay pot on the doorstep. Y: Inside the pot, the farmer found a bag of seeds.
X says 'a small clay pot' (first mention)
Y says 'the pot' (already known)
The first mention comes first
Answer: X then Y
Time order
commonParts have dates or time words like 'later', 'that evening', 'By Wednesday morning'.
Put fixed times in order.
Place each 'later' part after the part it depends on.
Order these: P: Within hours, trucks were stuck. Q: Army teams reached them that evening. R: By Wednesday morning, a lane was cleared. S: Later that day, vehicles were escorted down.
P: trucks were stuck first
Q: army came that evening
R: a lane was cleared by Wednesday morning
S: 'later that day' follows, so the order is PQRS
Which sentence is first or last?
commonOptions are single letters (P, Q, R, S) and the question asks only for the first or last sentence.
First: the sentence that makes sense alone.
Last: the sentence that points back to others but nothing points back to it.
P: He buried it in a hole. Q: A miser bought a lump of gold. R: Every night he dug it up. S: A thief, who had been watching him, stole the gold. Which sentence is last?
Q comes first (the gold is introduced)
P and R are what the miser did
S ends the story with the theft
Answer: S
Odd one out
occasionalFive sentences are given and one does not belong to the paragraph.
Find how the sentences link to each other.
The one that links to none is the odd one.
Which is the odd sentence? 1: UPI lets people pay by phone. 2: Small stalls now show QR codes. 3: Customers scan the code to pay. 4: Many users worry about overspending. 5: Coins were once kept in cloth purses.
Sentences 1 to 4 are about paying by phone
5 is about coins and cloth purses
It has no link to the others
Answer: 5
Missing sentence in a paragraph
occasionalA paragraph has a gap and the options are sentences to fill it.
Pick the sentence that continues the idea before the gap.
It must also lead into the sentence after the gap.
Fill the gap between 'Emails reach people in seconds.' and 'The handwriting brings the writer closer.' Options: (a) Yet a letter carries something a message cannot. (b) Emails are free.
Before the gap: emails are fast
After the gap: handwriting brings the writer closer
The gap needs a contrast that leads to handwriting
Answer: (a)