Reading: Things to be taken into account
1. Read the instructions first. Read the questions
2. Read as fast as you can, stopping at place where there are references
3. Underline finishing phrases of all opening sentences
4. Italics, strange words, quotations and brackets are indications
5. Note words like however, except, further, moreover, but, yet, still etc.
6. Double negatives either in questions or in the body
7. Synonymous expressions, from question to body or body to question
8. So far, Until, Till, of late, lately, recently and the like are tricky
9. Observe tense and number patterns of matching questions
10. When a word can be used more than once, only once it is repeated.
11. Multiple choice is either finding the right ones or identifying the wrong ones
12. Not given question will have a phrase that you may not see in the text
13. Yes, questions are more straightforward.
14. No questions are the trickiest. Not given is much smaller in number
15. So is the case with true or false. True answers are straighter than false answers
16. Please note very small sentences, ones which are less than a line long.
17. Last phrase of every paragraph will have a punching word.
18. Suitable title, read the first part of first and last part of the last paragraph
19. Don’t read the text again and again for every single question.
20. Mark up an area which has given you an answer.
21. Underline all the words that you have lifted as answers.
22. You may a long phrase as answer but you have only three words’ space.
23. Read left and right of a missing word. Gap fill.
24. If last part is missing, it is easier. So is the case with beginning.
25. Reading aloud with the missing part missed. It will echo right word
26. Don’t worry about the text of the test, but worry about the text of the question.
27. ‘Three words’ means either three words, or two words or one word. Not four.
28. Some questions come with multiple answers. Take best fitting.
29. If a question takes longer, forget it. You can miss out three answers every section.
30. If you are not able finish a section in 20 mnts, stop doing it wherever you are at.
31. Try to finish sections earlier than time. 20 mnts is 20 or 19 or 18 mts. Not 21 mts.
32. See the question allocation. 13, 13, 14 or 12, 15, 13 or 15, 12, 13 or 14, 12, 14.
33. First part easier, second one is not so, third one is difficult. Bank on easy ones.
34. Never leave an answer space blank. Guess and write something.
35. No two answers to one question. Rarely one answer satisfies two questions.
36. Spell out words seriously. Article, prepositions, punctuation etc. are serious.
37. Conscious of typography. First word of sentence needs to begin in caps.
38. Ordinary words in between a sentence should not begin in caps
39. Free hand is fine if it is readable. If not, please write all answers in caps
40. Keep on transferring answers as you go on finding them. No time at the end.
41. Mark out left out entries. You might enter a right answer in a wrong column.
42. When there is a word bank, beware of pairs like: electric and electrical.
43. When there is no word bank, read the passage very quizzically.
44. When there are choice question too confusing, take the smallest one.
45. If there is not time at all, there is no choice, but write something.
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