Easy Process of solving Comprehension in English

Easy Process of solving Comprehension in English

In many Competitive Exams like SBI PO & Clerk, IBPS PO & Clerk, RBI Assistant and others, you will find many questions from Comprehension in English section which is easy to solve and secure more marks. Some easy process is given to solve English Comprehension that is 

SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR ENGLISH COMPREHENSION:

Solving English Reading Comprehension has become an inevitable part of almost every competitive examination. The question that lingers in every aspirant’s mind is “How to improve Reading comprehension?”

Students are habituated to solve simple and direct passages in their school days, but when it comes to competitive exams, the task becomes difficult.  Unable to understand the vocabulary (meaning of words) and concept of the passage, students become dull and uninterested in this section.

Comprehension tests ascertain your ability to understand the passage and remember its main points. Questions on the passage are mostly fact-based. In some cases, the candidates are asked to draw inferences from what is stated or implied in the passage. Such passages are difficult and need a lot of practice.

So, here are some Reading Comprehension strategies to get more marks.

First we know what are the parameters which you need to have to solve reading comprehension quickly.

• 1. READING ABILITY 
• 2. UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENTS
• 3. SPEED
• 4. ABILITY TO DRAW INFERENCES AND CONCLUSIONS.

Don’t worry if you stuck with above words don’t worry because we have some proper methods to attempt Comprehension.

METHOD OF ATTEMPTING:

There are many methods to solve comprehension but We are giving two methods you can use both methods separately or together.

• METHOD 1: SEPARATION METHOD
• METHOD 2: KEYWORD METHOD

METHOD 1: SEPARATION METHOD:

Each and every passage has only these contents inside itself which we need to find and know because if we are able to find these contents than we shall know about of plot from where most of answers and conclusion will be draw. So while reading the passage try to draw these contents from Passage.

• 1. Background 
• 2. Claim
• 3. Supporting Reasons
• 4. Conclusion or Extension

1. BACKGROUND /INTRODUCTION: - In this contents basically writer intent to give just brief of introduction and past history of concerned topic of Passage. Like its origin and history .It  may draw only question like title of passage and need to give more emphasize on background because questions does not come from background. Just read to have an idea of topic.

2. CLAIM : This is most important part in which writer will describe what he want to convey to readers and What is issue for which he is writing this passage? It is  a classification, a purpose or an elaboration of the topic; Writer will provide full details of this passages back bone body in this section. It is most important because half of the questions will come only from that section. So read & understand carefully on facts based given in Passage. Question regarding the intention behind the passage only comes from that passage.

3. SUPPORTING REASONS: Whatever writer is claiming in passage he will give supporting reasons in this that section means what is need of passage and what is need of that information which writer want to convey. It is very important to read it carefully.  

4. CONCLUSION: - After discussion about claim and its reasons writer will give or draw final inference and it can give you brief of your all passage and question also comes from conclusion. 

POINTS TO REMEMBER FOR PASSAGE: 

• 1. READ passage in above given manner as early as u can.
• 2. READ Question and give answer yourself without seeing Options than try to match your answer with given options.
• 3. Eliminate regression, i.e., going back to the lines you have just read. This is out of habit developed over years of wrong or half-hearted reading.
• 4. Once start reading don’t take break before completing it otherwise u can waste time.

METHOD 2: KEYWORD METHOD:

In this you need to consider following points:

• 1. Before reading passage just read questions and every question will have one keyword just note down it on a Rough paper and read these keywords twice so that u can have idea while reading passage.
• 2. Start reading with keeping in mind your keywords by this way u will get a plot area for each and every keyword.
• 3. Once you finish your passage than you can have idea about your plot for keywords by which you can answer the questions.
• 4. In this method you can also use above method and can segregate passage in form which h one is important to read which one is not.

TIPS TO IMPROVE COMPREHENSION SOLVING ABILITY:-

• 1. Read newspapers and magazines at least 1 hour day and develop habit of reading if problem with newspaper that just take interesting Books of English version like champak and other comics.
• 2. Give yourself an environment of English; converse in English with your friends and peers.
• 3. Develop a sense of urgency while reading the passage.
• 4. Practice at least one typical passage under test conditions every day. Give yourself five minutes to read a Small passage and ten to fifteen minutes in case of a long passage.
• 5. Have a clear and logical thought process. Do not clutter your brain with unnecessary and irrelevant Thoughts and details.