NMAT Para Jumbles MCQs with Solutions: Practice NMAT Previous Year Questions (PYQs)

This question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
(A) If you look at a number of important inventions and discoveries that have been made over the last 1,000 years you will find that most of them occurred in the last 300 years.
(B) What prevented progress being made in the previous 700 years?
(C) One reason was the mistaken belief that once a scientific model has been built, it was a complete picture of the real thing.
(D) Why this?
(E) Those who doubted this ran the risk of being ridiculed by their fellow men and in some cases of even losing their lives by carrying on with their investigation.

Arrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) We are a long way over the green pastures.
(B) We have left the corn-fields behind, and have just come into the forest.
(C) Here, we halt at that small inn, which ornamented over the doors and windows with green branches for the Midsummer festival.
(D) The whole kitchen is hung round with branches of birch and the berries of the mountain-ash.
(E) The oat-cakes hang on long poles under the ceiling; the berries are suspended above the head of the old woman who is just scouring her brass kettle bright.

Directions: Rearrange the jumbled sentences to show the appropriate sequence.
(A) For example, when the early homo sapiens left their homes in search for food, they would risk death and injury from dangerous animals. 
(B) Throughout human history, the universe has presented an innumerable amount of dangers to explorers. 
(C) Today, many adventure enthusiasts seek to find the thrills and adrenaline rush which their ancestors had experienced in the wild. 
(D) The tradition of humans going out to experience the dangers of unknown nature still exists.

Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
A. To help control this runoff and to generate hydroelectric power, the Lower Colorado River Authority operates a series of dams that form the Texas Highland Lakes.
B. The eastern part of the city is relatively flat, whereas the western part and western suburbs consist of scenic rolling hills on the edge of the Texas Hill Country.
C. The city is also situated on the Balcones Fault, which, in much of Austin, runs roughly the same route as Loop 1 (Mopac Expressway).
D. The lakes also provide venues for boating, swimming, and other forms of recreation within several parks located on the lake shores.
E. Because the hills to the west are primarily limestone rock with a thin covering of topsoil, portions of the city are frequently subjected to flash floods from the runoff caused by thunderstorms.

Objects are not coloured in any ........., reduced or not; and thus we are free to .......... a scientific ontology which does not colour among the basic properties of its basic .............

Arrange the jumbled sentences in order.
A. When quizzed on his ‘surprising’ reaction after missing out on a century, Flintoff reckoned that scoring one run less than the hallowed figure of 100 didn’t matter as England had achieved victory.
B. The Lancastrian’s knock eventually won the match for his country and he was awarded the man-of-the-match prize.
C. It didn’t stop him from celebrating hundreds with much exuberance afterwards, but his temporary insight retains a special place in my memory.
D. In 2004, after being dismissed on 99 in an ODI against India at the Oval, the former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff wore a contented smile as he walked off the field.
E. There’s something magical about the multiples of 10, which I have never understood.

This question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
(A) It is much smaller than the Earth, with a diameter of only 6500 kilometers.
(B) One white dwarf, called Kupee’s Star after a famous American astronomer, is particularly well-known.
(C) Yet its mass is equal to that of the Sun.
(D) The matter inside a white dwarf is incredibly dense.
(E) It is no dense that just a thimbleful would weigh thousands of kilograms.

This question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
(A) This is another kind of sign behaviour.
(B) The same basic characteristics is there, automatic reaction to some stimulus.
(C) Human beings, like other animals, may be conditioned to respond in particular ways to a given stimulus.
(D) Instead the reaction is wired in by some outside force.
(E) The difference is that the stimulus reaction pattern is not wired into the animals’ nervous system by its own genetic code.

This question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
(A) For 25 years he painstakingly amassed evidence to support it.
(B) This concept did not become clear in Darwin’s mind until long after he had left the Galapagos.
(C) After a great number of generations tortoises on the arid islands will have longer necks than those on the watered islands.
(D) And so one species will have given rise to another.

This question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.
(A) Since then, intelligence tests been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average or bright children, so that special education is provided to the dull.
(B) In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age.
(C) Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient and tests are developed to indicate what an average child of a certain age can do, what a five-year old can answer, but a fouryear old cannot, for instance.
(D) Binet developed the first set of such tests in the early 1990s to find out which children in school needed special attention.
(E) Intelligence can be measured by tests.

Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph. A. I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
B. As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence.
C. It was indeed a paradise compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches, and dank earth.
D. Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
E. The girl was young and of gentle demeanor, unlike what I have since found cottages and farmhouse servants to be.

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
If Sentence (C), "The leaders in the caravan came up, with some thirty horses, and we exchanged courteous greetings," is the first sentence, what is the order of other sentences after rearrangement?
A. It was an uninteresting, mealy-faced child, with a very marked obliquity of vision, but I felt much compassion for him; he wore such a look of patient suffering.
B. And for we wandered, but only on our return we saw animals far in the distance.
C. The leaders in the caravan came up, with some thirty horses, and we exchanged courteous greetings.
D. They vanished in space and we, leaving Abdul in charge of the horses, set off on our excursion.
E. One of the sandagurs, out of the convoy, carried in front of him a large bundle of clothing containing a boy.