Directions: Below each question, some sentences are given, find the sentence which is not really contributing to the main theme and OUT of the passage or find the odd sentence and rearrange the remaining sentences to make a coherent paragraph. (A) T he village’s toxic bonfires were causing such an environmental hazard, children were coughing and wheezing in their classrooms. (B) To strengthen the bridges being built in the community, the school also offers vocational training. (C) The school was founded to provide an education for children in the area, most of whom were working in the local stone quarries, earning about $3 (£2.25) a day. (D) Sexual harassment and emotional abuse against girls by both teachers and peers is commonplace, forcing many girls to drop out of school entirely. (E) Every morning, students in Assam’s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste, in exchange for which they will get their day’s lessons.

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Directions: Below each question, some sentences are given, find the sentence which is not really contributing to the main theme and OUT of the passage or find the odd sentence and rearrange the remaining sentences to make a coherent paragraph. (A) T he village’s toxic bonfires were causing such an environmental hazard, children were coughing and wheezing in their classrooms. (B) To strengthen the bridges being built in the community, the school also offers vocational training. (C) The school was founded to provide an education for children in the area, most of whom were working in the local stone quarries, earning about $3 (&pound;2.25) a day. (D) Sexual harassment and emotional abuse against girls by both teachers and peers is commonplace, forcing many girls to drop out of school entirely. (E) Every morning, students in Assam’s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste, in exchange for which they will get their day’s lessons.

Examese Editorial Team · Accepted Answer

EACB The correct option is 5) i.e EACB - this arrangement forms a coherent paragraph. Key Points How to attempt: In this type of questions, take a bird's eye view, find out the common theme which is described in all statements, and rearrange the jumbled up sentences. The statement which is not contributing to the main theme of the passage needs to be kept out. After going through the five sentences given above, we can easily mark sentence D as the odd one because it is talking about the equality for women that is irrelevant to our paragraph which is mainly concerned with the education system in rural areas of North East in India. The complete paragraph is given below: Every morning, students in Assam’s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste, in exchange for which they will get their day’s lessons. T he village’s toxic bonfires were causing such an environmental hazard, children were coughing and wheezing in their classrooms. The school was founded to provide an education for children in the area, most of whom were working in the local stone quarries, earning about $3 (&pound;2.25) a day. To strengthen the bridges being built in the community, the school also offers vocational training.