Reading the modus operandi
1. Question types number of questions question split
2. Read the questions to internalize not just to understand
3. Identifying the real test and the corresponding text
4. Size of paragraphs and their potential to have questions
5. Identifying where to read and what to read for
6. Sign posting paragraphs: write the idea in the margin
7. Pull out years, events, names/nouns and jot them down outside
8. Be careful about pithy sentences that begin or end a paragraph.
9. Italics, hyphenation, quoting double or single are indicative.
10. Be aware of typography. White every answer neatly and seriously.

• Synonyms antonyms
• Negatives Positives
• Negatives Double negatives
• Active passive
• Different text tense different test tense
• Subordinates Mains
• Mains Subordinates
• Singulars plurals
• Many All
• All Most of
• Prior to until
• Until Before
• It is believed that It is (absolute)
• Sold bought
• Gave was given
• Neither either
• No way it is Neither is it
• However Nonetheless
• Still But
• Yet Notwithstanding
• Besides In addition
• By and large Generally
• Same More or less same
• Smallest question Longest question
• A strange word A word that hasn’t appreared
• Capital letters Apostrophe
• Articles Nouns/with adjectives
• For Since
• Reading in between Reading the main sentence
• Conditionals Main ideas
• Similar ones Meaningless ones
• Eliminating reducing

Reading process:
• Visualize the text area that have you an answer
• Identify the concluding part of lead sentences
• Avoid reading the whole text again and again.
• Questions are frame from certain areas
• Look for: For example: it proves a point.
• Read the question audibly to locate the text missing
• Read the left and right of missing space
• Read aloud the given part with beginning missing
• Read along the given part with end missing.
• Some questions and answers give clues to other answers.
• If a question seems to be taking long: ignore it. You can make 10 mistakes
• If you have no other go, just guess. There is no negative marking.
• When multiple choice gives you no other go. Take the longest answer.
• All yes questions are seen to be the shortest.
• All not given questions are seen to be the longest.
• Writers’ attitude, title/type of the topic etc. will be plain.


All the above ways and means are relative and the reader has to have his or her own comfort zones developed out of practice.

1. All good scorers are good readers.
2. All good scores are a perfect blend of a lot of faculties. There is no shortcut, but there are innumerable tools and tips. They differ though from test to test. The common ones are common for all.