CAT 2003 | Question: 1-40

Question

The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

• A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout puts the keys most likely to put in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
• B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in $1936,$ was shown to be much faster.
• C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in $1868$ and sold to Remington in $1873)$ aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
• D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
• E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.
  • A. BDACE
  • B. CEABD
  • C. BCDEA
  • D. CAEBD

Answer 1

Option 2 CEABD

In paragraph initially QWERTY design is discussed later on it was replaced by a different layout  

Comments

it should be 2 here.

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Yes sir I edited my answer