Question 1

1. Fewer bees means fewer pollinated flowers. 2. Farmers sprayed a new pesticide on the mustard fields. 3. Within two seasons, mustard yields had fallen by a fifth. 4. The pesticide, it turned out, also killed the bees that visited the flowers. 5. Fewer pollinated flowers means fewer seeds.

Accepted Answer

Solution: 24153. (2) opens (the first cause). (4) "The pesticide" needs (2). Then the chain (1) → (5) runs bees → flowers → seeds, and (3) closes with the measured result.

Question 2

1. The answer, surprisingly, was the colour of the walls. 2. In the 1950s, a hospital noticed that patients in one ward recovered faster than in another. 3. Doctors, food and medicine were the same in both. 4. The faster ward was painted pale green; the other, a dark brown. 5. Researchers set out…

Accepted Answer

Solution: 23514. Block A = 2-3 (the puzzle, then what was the same). Block B = 5-1-4: "find what else differed" → "The answer" → the detail of the answer.

Question 3

What are the common traps in 5-sentence TITA (Indore) questions?

Accepted Answer

Fixing the opener too early. In 2019 Q40 the hook "Incredible as it may sound, we are now told…" opens, not the general sentence about the study. Splitting a block. "A study spanning 170 countries" must come before both "The study…" sentences. Ignoring time words. "Decades later", "by then" and "in the same year" are as strong as pronouns.

5-sentence TITA (Indore)

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