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NDA 1 2025 GAT, question 22

Topic: Ordering of sentences

Directions · Q21 to Q25

In this section each item consists of six sentences that comprise a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The sequence of the middle four sentences has been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the answer sheet.

Q22

S1: India, at present, has one of the largest road networks in the world.

S6: It passes through Howrah, Delhi and Amritsar and terminates in Kabul (Afghanistan).

P: The importance of roads has been recognised in India since the ancient times.

Q: The Grand Trunk Road was built by Sher Shah Suri across the Indo-Gangetic plain, from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to Peshawar (Pakistan).

R: Kings such as Ashoka and Chandragupta built roads for easy transportation of goods and people.

S: Construction of roads continued as an important activity in the late medieval period.

  1. (a) QPRS
  2. (b) SPQR
  3. (c) PQRS
  4. (d) PRSQCorrect answer

Solution.

Answer: (d) PRSQ

  1. P begins the historical explanation, and R illustrates ancient road building with named rulers.
  2. S advances to the late medieval period; Q supplies the specific example of Sher Shah Suri’s road.
  3. The pronoun “It” in S6 then refers naturally to the Grand Trunk Road.
  4. The complete sequence is S1–P–R–S–Q–S6.