Given below are six sentences of a paragraph.

Sentence A is the beginning whereas sentence F is the last sentence of the para. The middle four sentences are jumbled up. Select the option that gives their correct order forming a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. In the course of my education at MIT, three teachers shaped my thinking.

B. Their combined contributions formed the foundation on which I later built my professional career.

C. Prof. Sponder taught me technical aerodynamics.

D. These three teachers were Prof. Sponder, Prof. KAV Pandalai and Prof. Narasingha Rao.

E. Each one of them had very distinct personalities, but they shared a common impulse— the capacity to feed their students’ intellectual hunger by sheer brilliance and untiring zeal.

F. He was an Austrian with rich practical experience in aeronautical engineering.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Option 3)

Key Points

Sentence B enumerates the description by discussing their combined contributions to the professional career of the author.
Sentence D describes the three teachers being referenced in sentence A.
Sentence E elaborates on the common qualities shared by these three teachers.
Sentence C starts detailing the specific role of each teacher, beginning with Prof. Sponder.

Hence, the correct order is BDEC

Correct sequence:

A. In the course of my education at MIT, three teachers shaped my thinking.
B. Their combined contributions formed the foundation on which I later built my professional career.
D. These three teachers were Prof. Sponder, Prof. KAV Pandalai and Prof. Narasingha Rao.
E. Each one of them had very distinct personalities, but they shared a common impulse— the capacity to feed their students’ intellectual hunger by sheer brilliance and untiring zeal.
C. Prof. Sponder taught me technical aerodynamics.
F. He was an Austrian with rich practical experience in aeronautical engineering.