IPMAT Indore (VA) PYQs

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:

1. Once they reach a high altitude, they manage to travel all over the world.
2. An expert from the team explained that the bacteria usually lived on the surface of vegetation, such as leaves.
3. The wind carries them off the surface and into the atmosphere.
4. A group of researchers were surprised to find that clouds had carried drug resistant bacteria over a long distance.

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided.

1. In this microgravity environment, your blood also tends to move towards the heart and head.
2. Both effects are only short-lived and, after a brief period of readjustment on arriving back home, the heart and spine return to normal.
3. The heart interprets this as an increase in the amount of blood in the body and that it needs to pump less, so it shrinks.
4. In space with less gravitational force than on Earth, there’s less pressure on your spine and so it’ll get a bit longer, effectively making you as much as two inches taller.

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent passage:

1. What is more shocking to observe is how often such strokes lead to death.
2. When the body temperature rises, our vital organs swell, and this causes death.
3. One main reason for this is that people underestimate how badly heat can affect the body.
4. Heat strokes have become more common in our country than ever before.