IPMAT Indore 2022 (VA) PYQs

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.

• 1. The Central African Republic has approved Bitcoin as an official currency.
• 2. Experts foresee that this will damage the environment as well as the economy.
• 3. Others claim that this may make money laundering easy and also use up a lot of electricity.
• 4. Economists criticised this move as a potential risk to the financial stability of the nation.

The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.

• 1. This means the brain receives less input over the course of a day.
• 2. Youthful eyes jiggle regularly to take in new or unfamiliar stimuli.
• 3. As the person attached to those eyes ages, the eye muscles grow slower and the pathways between the eye and the brain grow longer, more complex, or, in some cases, get damaged.
• 4. Our eyes quickly scan the surroundings and then send the data to the brain.
• 5. Human eyes perform jiggles, more formally called saccades, in response to a change in the field of vision.

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.