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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. Despite the awareness, some citizens fail to pay their taxes honestly.
  2. One of the factors that impacts our country‘s economy is income- tax.
  3. Awareness regarding this aspect of our economy is often made through the education system and media.
  4. Most of these defaulters not only get into trouble, but they also create additional work for the income-tax department.

Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • adbc
  • cbad
  • bcad
  • bdac
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The Correct Option is C

Approach Solution - 1

The fastest way through this paragraph is to track three phrases that only make sense once something earlier has named them: "this aspect" in one sentence, "despite the awareness" in another, and "these defaulters" in a third.

"This aspect of our economy" in the awareness sentence must be pointing back to a sentence that has already named a specific part of the economy, which only the income tax sentence does. So the income tax sentence has to come first, and the awareness sentence right after it. "Despite the awareness" then needs that awareness sentence to already exist, so the sentence about citizens failing to pay tax has to come after it, not before. Finally, "these defaulters" needs the citizens who fail to pay tax to have already been introduced, so the sentence about defaulters creating extra work has to be last.

Chaining these dependencies together gives income tax first, awareness second, citizens who ignore it third, and the trouble they cause last.

So, the correct answer is bcad.

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Approach Solution -2

Another approach is to follow only the connecting words and pronouns across the four sentences, setting the overall meaning aside for a moment.

  1. Option "adbc": a's opening phrase "despite the awareness" needs an earlier sentence supplying the word "awareness." Placed first, this phrase has nothing behind it to attach to.
  2. Option "cbad": c's phrase "this aspect of our economy" needs an earlier sentence naming a specific aspect. Placed first, there is no such aspect on the page yet for "this" to point to.
  3. Option "bcad": b supplies no backward-pointing word, so it is free to start the chain, and it introduces "income-tax" as "one of the factors" in the economy. c's "this aspect of our economy" links directly back to the income-tax b just named. a's "despite the awareness" links back to the awareness c just described. d's "these defaulters" links back to the citizens who "fail to pay their taxes" in a.
  4. Option "bdac": b again opens the chain cleanly, but d's "these defaulters" is placed right after it, with no citizens failing to pay tax mentioned yet for "these defaulters" to point back to. The chain breaks at the second link.

Tracing just the words "this aspect," "despite the awareness," and "these defaulters" back to their sources lands on the same sequence.

So, the correct answer is bcad.

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