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Directions: In each of the questions given below, each sentence is labelled with a letter. From the given choices, choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph.
  1. One of them copied and pasted large portions of the required text from a website.
  2. Before assigning the project to his students, the guide gave a presentation on plagiarism.
  3. The expulsion order that followed was not alarming.
  4. A few students did not pay much heed to the consequences of the illegal act.

Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • cabd
  • dbca
  • badc
  • bdac
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The Correct Option is D

Approach Solution - 1

A fast way to solve paragraph ordering questions like this one is to find the phrases that cannot stand on their own and work out what they must be pointing back to, rather than reading every possible order in full.

Two phrases stand out here. Sentence "a" opens with "one of them," which only makes sense if some group of people has already been named. Sentence "d" ends by mentioning "the consequences of the illegal act," which only makes sense if a rule or warning has already been introduced, so that ignoring it counts as "the illegal act." Both of these point back to sentence "b," the guide's presentation on plagiarism to his students, so "b" has to come first, and it introduces the "students" that "one of them" in "a" refers to.

Once "b" is fixed as the opening sentence, "d" naturally follows it, since it directly continues the idea of students facing consequences after being warned. Sentence "a" comes next, narrowing "a few students" down to the specific "one of them" who actually copied text. Sentence "c," the expulsion order, closes the paragraph as the outcome of that act.

This gives the order b, d, a, c, with every reference word resolved by the sentence right before it.

So, the correct answer is bdac.

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Approach Solution -2

Another way to solve this type of question is to ignore full sentence meaning at first and track only the small linking signals inside each sentence, pronouns, time words, and phrases that point backward, then use just those signals to chain the sentences together.

  1. Option "cabd": c contains "that followed," a backward-pointing signal with nothing behind it at the start of the chain, so this signal has no event to attach to. The chain breaks before it can even begin.
  2. Option "dbca": d opens with "the illegal act," a phrase that assumes an act has already been named. Nothing before it supplies that act, so this signal also has nothing to latch onto at the front of the chain.
  3. Option "badc": a opens the chain here with "one of them," a pronoun signal that needs a plural group named earlier. No such group exists yet in this position, since "a few students" only appears afterward in d. The pronoun signal fails to find its anchor.
  4. Option "bdac": b carries no backward signal at all, so it is free to open the chain. d's "a few students" links forward to the "students" b just mentioned. a's "one of them" then links back to the same "few students" d introduced. Finally, c's "that followed" links back to the sequence of events just built by b, d, and a. Every signal finds its anchor in the sentence right before it.

Chaining only the pronouns and connective phrases, without relying on full sentence meaning, still lands on the same sequence.

So, the correct answer is bdac.

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