10 Effective Tips to Get More Marks in Reading Comprehension Topic

As you all know reading comprehension topic comes almost in every competitive exam whether its SSC or Banking. So, you don’t have any option to skip that topic in exam or also during your preparation because the weightage of this topic is more in comparison to other English Language Section. Now, the question arises in every aspirant’s mind is “How to improve Reading comprehension?”

In this article we are going to share “10 Effective Tips to Get More Marks in Reading Comprehension Topic”, these tips will help you a lot while you are preparing reading comprehension topic. Let’s know these ten effective tips:

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Eliminate the words or phrases.

While you are reading the passage eliminate the words, phrases, sentences from the Reading Comprehension that are not useful and give more focus on keywords.  You don’t need to understand the meaning of each and every word of the passage because only summary and key words are required to solve reading comprehension.

Find Right Approach to Solve Reading Comprehension

There are two approach to solve reading comprehension topic; first approach, read the passage first, and then go to the questions and second approach, read the question first, and then go to the passage. What you should do in it. You would have to find out in which approach you are comfortable. After that practice to solve your passage to follow that particular approach. As we share one thing that most of aspirant follow second approach.

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Improve Your Vocabulary

The question arises here, Why you need to improve your vocabulary?. The answer of this question, there are lots of word in passage, if you don’t know meaning of those words you may get puzzle and will not able to understand the meaning of the whole passage. And apart from this, there are some vocab questions. Sometimes these vocab questions are very easy but sometimes they might be tricky, if you don’t know right meaning  then you may lose your marks in the exam.

Make Proper Notes

While reading the passage, make some quick notes for ready reference. You can write in your own words, can make structure or also can write paragraph-wise important points. Remember that you do not have to make long notes, just make a quick note of the important points in the passage. If you make these notes, you do not have to read the comprehension again, you just go through only these keywords to answer the question.

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Try to preempt questions

It is really very difficult skill but if you gain mastery in it, you will be  the master in solving Reading Comprehensions question. While reading the passage, try to find out all the possible questions that could be asked from the passage, and which parts of the passage seem important for question-setting. You would have to find out these thing, when you are practising not in exam time.

Give Extra Focus on Opening and Closing paragraphs

Don’t forget to read opening and closing paragraphs because question such as the main idea of the passage are based on the overall subject of the passage, and most of the time, the answer for this type question we can get from the first and last paragraph of the reading comprehension.

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Improve reading Speed

Reading Comprehension need you to be very smart and smartness comes from lots of practice. So, try to improve your reading speed and make yourselves smarter. So, while reading do not move your lips, it slows you down and breaks your concentration. If you read fast, it will help you to maintain your concentration and your focus will not disturb. There is one more benefit of fast reading that it will help you to comprehend the passage quickly and help you to speed up to the solve the entire reading comprehension.

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Solve Previous Papers

As you all know before appearing in any exam, “What we should have to do?”. We should solve previous year papers to know the exact pattern of the examination. Similarly, we would have to solve previous year paper set for Reading Comprehension topic. By solving the previous papers you can understand and identify what kind of questions are being asked in the examination, so that you will be mentally prepared for those kind of questions.

Don’t Think Outside The Given Topic

Don’t make conclusion which is not given in the reading comprehension. You would have to just think in the boundary of the given passage. Even though you are well aware from the given topic of the reading comprehension, but you should not bring your own knowledge into the answers. Just stick to the Information given in the reading comprehension.

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Never lose confidence and Overcome Panic

Don’t get panicked by the difficult questions. Be prepared yourselves for them. For it, during your practice time, you would have to practice all type of reading comprehensions from different fields of knowledge, like Science, Arts, Literature, Politics, Economics, etc. Read and solve comprehensions, as many as possible and also improve your vocabulary to easily comprehend the passage.

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Hope these tips will help you a lot and you will be gain mastery in this topic.

Good Luck!

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