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NDA 2 2025 GAT, question 21

Topic: Ordering of sentences

Directions · Q21 to Q25

In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have 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.

Q21

S1. Sufism is an English word coined in the Nineteenth Century

S6. It may also have been suffa, the platform outside a place of Islamic worship

P. Historians have understood this term in several ways

Q. According to some scholars, it is derived from suf, meaning wool

R. Others derive it from safa, meaning purity

S. The word used for Sufism in Islamic texts is tasawwuf

  1. (a) Q R S P
  2. (b) S P Q RCorrect answer
  3. (c) P Q S R
  4. (d) R P S Q

Solution.

Answer: (b) S P Q R

  1. S introduces the Islamic term tasawwuf.
  2. P says historians interpret that term in several ways, Q gives one derivation, and R introduces another with “Others”.
  3. S6 adds a further possibility.
  4. The coherent order is S–P–Q–R.