Direction: The sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. The other half had been sued at least twice, and Levinson found that just on the basis of those conversations, she could find clear differences between the two groups.

B. Recently the medical researcher Wendy Levinson recorded hundreds of conversations between a group of physicians and their patients.

C. The surgeons who had never been sued spent more than three minutes longer with each patient than those who had been sued did.

D. Roughly half of the doctors had never been sued.

Key Points

• The reason for the order is to create a logical and coherent flow of information in the paragraph:
  • Sentence B introduces the main activity – Wendy Levinson recording conversations between physicians and patients.
  • Sentence D provides additional information about the doctors, stating that roughly half of them had never been sued.
  • Sentence A builds on the information from sentence D, explaining that Levinson found clear differences between the two groups of doctors based on their conversations.
  • Sentence C adds more specific details about the differences by stating that surgeons who had never been sued spent more time with each patient compared to those who had been sued.
• Therefore, the​ correct answer is Option 1.
• Correct sequence:​

B. Recently the medical researcher Wendy Levinson recorded hundreds of conversations between a group of physicians and their patients.

D. Roughly half of the doctors had never been sued.

A. The other half had been sued at least twice, and Levinson found that just on the basis of those conversations, she could find clear differences between the two groups.

C. The surgeons who had never been sued spent more than three minutes longer with each patient than those who had been sued did.