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Year

CAT 2019

Section

Verbal

Topic

Odd one out

Difficulty

Easy

Question

Slot-2

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

  1. Socrates told us that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ and that to ‘know thyself’ is the path to true wisdom

  2. It suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favored by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person.

  3. Research has shown that people who are prone to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making under pressure and are at a substantially increased risk of depression.

  4. Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns around in your head – is not the way to achieve self-realization.

  5. The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases

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