IPMAT Rohtak 2020 (VA) PYQs

S1: The future beckons to us.
P: In fact we have hard work ahead.
Q : Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?
R : We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease.
S : It will be to bring freedom and oppurtunity to the common man.
S6: There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full.

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. By contrast, in America, it is estimated that even after post-COVID decline, total giving came to almost USD 500 billion in 2022.
2. There are no comparable data on different countries. But one report by Dasra, a Mumbai-based NGO, estimates total private giving in India came to about USD 13 billion in 2022.
3. A strategic sort of giving, involving philanthropy professionals, a long-term lens, and big ambitions of transforming society is gradually emerging. It differs, of course, between countries.
4. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, put total giving in China at USD 21 billion in 2020.
5. By any measure, however, organised philanthropy across Asia is on a much smaller scale than in the West.

Choose the order of the sentences marked A, B, C, D and E that forms a logical paragraph:

A. Such an intervention in political reforms in India has got inspiration from the western societies.

B. These organisations have emphasised on an approach towards political democracy that is rooted in the idea of civil society.

C. The ever-widening group of middle class Indians is using NGOs to come face-to-face with India's poorer and working classes, and to plant the idea of rights and liberties across these communities.

D. And while it is still early days here, this trend carries a great deal of promises especially when we consider that the growth of such NGOs has been enabled by a non-partisan middle class with an active interest in political reforms.

E. This bottom-up civil consciousness though not rooted in Indian traditions, yet with non-political and non-partisan agenda, can bring in a new kind of democracy in India.