Question:medium

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. Goals are set, and relevant data is collected and analyzed.
  2. Strategies are made on the basis of the data and resources made available.
  3. There are various stages in framing a management- strategy, and its implementation.
  4. The strategies are implemented and monitored to ensure that the goals are achieved.

Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • abdc
  • acbd
  • cabd
  • cbad
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The Correct Option is C

Approach Solution - 1

For this kind of paragraph, it helps to treat each sentence as needing an "ingredient" from an earlier sentence, and then arrange them so no sentence uses something that has not been introduced yet.

Sentence "c" needs nothing before it, it simply announces that there are stages in strategy and implementation, so it works as the opening line. Sentence "a" needs a "stage" to be the first one it describes, which "c" provides, and it produces "data" as its own output. Sentence "b" needs that "data" to build strategies from, which only "a" has supplied by this point, so "b" cannot come before "a." Sentence "d" needs finished "strategies" to implement and monitor, which only exist after "b" has made them, so "d" has to be last.

Following this ingredient chain gives the order "c" first, "a" second, "b" third, and "d" last, since each sentence only uses material the sentence right before it has already produced.

So, the correct answer is cabd.

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Approach Solution -2

A different way to solve this is to track only the small linking words and repeated nouns in each sentence, ignoring the broader meaning, and use those alone to chain the sentences.

  1. Option "abdc": a is placed first, but a has no forward-pointing word introducing "stages" at all, so nothing signals that this is the first of several steps. The chain has no anchor to start from.
  2. Option "acbd": c's word "stages" opens the chain fine, but b's phrase "on the basis of the data" needs a "data" already mentioned somewhere earlier in the chain, and at this position nothing has produced that word yet, since a comes after b here.
  3. Option "cbad": Same break as above, "on the basis of the data" in b has no earlier "data" to link to, since a still has not appeared yet in the chain at this point.
  4. Option "cabd": c's "stages" opens the chain with nothing to link back to. a produces the word "data," continuing naturally from the "stages" c introduced. b's "on the basis of the data" now links directly back to the "data" a just produced. d's "the strategies are implemented" links back to the "strategies" b just built, and "the goals are achieved" links back to the "goals" a set at the start.

Following only the repeated words, data, strategies, and goals, from one sentence to the next confirms the same chain.

So, the correct answer is cabd.

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