SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 25 of 75

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Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph: 1. This process is crucial because it ensures the integrity and reproducibility of experimental results. 2. Scientific experimentation begins with the formulation of a testable hypothesis based on an observation or question. 3. The data collected from these experiments is then analyzed and interpreted to draw conclusions about the hypothesis. 4. Next, a controlled experiment is designed and carried out to collect empirical evidence.

(a)2, 4, 3, 1
(b)4, 3, 2, 1
(c)1, 2, 4, 3
(d)3, 1, 4, 2

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Sentence 2 opens: scientific experimentation 'begins with' a hypothesis, and it leans on nothing before it.

Sentence 4 starts with Next, the second step: the experiment is designed and carried out.

Sentence 3 refers to 'these experiments' and 'then' analyzes their data, the third step.

Sentence 1, 'This process is crucial', judges the whole method, so it closes → 2, 4, 3, 1, option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
4, 3, 2, 1 — Opens on Next, which cannot start a paragraph: next after what? The hypothesis, sentence 2, then sits third, after the experiment it should come before.
(c)
1, 2, 4, 3 — Opens on This process, a back-reference with nothing to point to. The judgement on the process has to come after the process is described.
(d)
3, 1, 4, 2 — Opens on 'The data collected from these experiments' before any experiment is mentioned. It also puts analysing the data ahead of forming the hypothesis.

Concept

A process paragraph follows the order of the process, and its sequence words show that order.

Begins with marks step one, Next the step after it, and then a later step. A back-reference such as 'these experiments' needs the experiment named in an earlier sentence.

Sentence 1 praises the process for ensuring 'the integrity and reproducibility of experimental results'. That only makes sense once the experiment and its data have been described.

A 'This process' sentence does not always close a paragraph. It follows whatever describes the process, and here that description is the full sequence of steps.

Key facts

Sequence words fix a process order: 'begins with' comes first, 'next' after it, 'then' later.
A back-reference such as 'these experiments' needs its noun in an earlier sentence.
The paragraph's order: testable hypothesis, controlled experiment, analysis of the data, then why the process matters.

Study next

Sequence markers in para-jumbles: first, next, then, finallyBack-references: this, these, such, the latterWhere an evaluative sentence sits in an expository paragraph

Common traps

Assuming a 'This process' sentence always closes: at 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, English Q.24 the keyed order 2, 1, 4, 3 puts it second, straight after the sentence describing photosynthesis.
Opening on the data sentence because 'The data' looks like a fresh topic, without noticing 'these experiments'.

A 'This process' sentence also closes the keyed orders at 19 Sep 2025, 09:00, English Q.24 (water cycle, 2, 4, 3, 1) and 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, English Q.25 (pollination, 2, 3, 4, 1).

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