CRACK IBPS PO : New Pattern Sentence Rearrangement Day 90

Dear Banking Aspirant ,

There have been recent changes in the Sentence Rearrangement in the English Section. Even in this year SBI PO mains examination 2017, the sentence rearrangement has changed and in that pattern, the first and the last sentence would be fixed and aspirants have to find all the other sentences in the given jumbled passage.

Even though this section is limited to little changes, who knows there can be changes even in this section in the forthcoming exams. We have to be updated for all the challenges which are yet to come in the forthcoming exams.These paragraphs are taken from the recent editorials from leading Dailies and Journals and this ranges from easy to moderate to difficult. So crack these questions to excel in the exams.

Directions(1-5): Rearrange the given sentences to form a meaningfully coherent passage and answer the following Questions. In this the First Sentence and the last sentence are fixed ( I.e A and G is fixed. You have to rearrange the other sentences to form a meaningful passage).

(A) Angela Merkel has secured a fourth term as German chancellor but with her authority diminished, after her conservative bloc secured the lead position in parliamentary elections but failed to halt the march of rightwing populists.

(B) Despite recognising that it was her party’s worst result since 1945, she said the “strategic goals” of the CDU’s election campaign had been reached, and gave her a clear mandate to form the next government but she called the outcome “a result that was not as good as we had expected”.

(C) Addressing CDU supporters in Berlin, a somewhat subdued-looking Merkel thanked “voters who put their trust in us”.

(D) She also promised to listen to the “concerns and anxieties” of AfD voters in order to win back their votes.

(E) Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) was celebrating its historic third place success last night, having secured 13% of the vote, according to exit polls, marking the first time in almost six decades that an openly nationalist party will enter the Bundestag.

(F) Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democrat-led alliance secured 33% of the vote, according to exit polls, about 12 points ahead of her main rivals, Martin Schulz’s centre-left Social Democrats, which secured around 21 points, marking the poorest result for Germany’s oldest party since 1949 and pushing it on to the opposition benches.

(G) AfD’s propulsion into parliament just four years into its existence gives the country its first far-right force on the national stage since 1961, and a faction with the most substantial presence of rightwing extremists since the Nazi era.

1) Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

2) Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

3) Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

4) Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

5) Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

Directions(6-10): Rearrange the given sentences to form a meaningfully coherent passage and answer the following Questions. In this the First Sentence and the last sentence are fixed ( I.E. A and G is fixed. You have to rearrange the other sentences to form a meaningful passage).

(A) Interest rate benchmarks play a key role in the financial system, the banking system and the economy.

(B) The European Commission has estimated, for instance, that the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) underpins contracts with a nominal value of about €180 trillion.

(C) There are three main reasons that make interest rate benchmarks essential to the smooth functioning of the financial market.

(D) Second, such benchmarks are widely used to value balance sheet items and for instance, they can be used as discount rates for some financial instruments, or in valuations for accounting purposes. Third, they are widely used by the derivatives markets in products such as swaps, options and forward contracts.

(E) First, as a reference in contracts indexed to variable interest rates: the use of reference rates to price financial contracts reduces their complexity and facilitates standardisation.

(F) They are used by a variety of agents, ranging from banks that provide credit to businesses and households to derivatives market makers.

(G) Most of these contracts are interest rate swaps, in which a fixed rate of interest is exchanged for a floating rate. But such contracts also include retail mortgages or floating rate issuances (loans, bonds).

6) Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

7) Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

8) Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

9) Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F

10) Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence?

(a) B

(b) C

(c) D

(d) E

(e) F