3 Most Essential Things In Tackling Reading Comprehension (RC)

3 Most Essential Things In Tackling Reading Comprehension (RC)
While all of us understand that Reading Comprehension  (RC)  is one of the most crucial areas for any competitive exam, most of us find it reasonably difficult to tackle RC.

Here we present the most essential things for being successful in RC.

Diversity

RCs asked in various exams can be as diverse as one may think. The topics on which the RC can be based range from polity to social sciences, business applications to geography, history to literature, philosophical to fact-based, among others.

So a person who has studied commerce in his schooling days might come across a passage based upon pure science or for that matter a student of literature might come across a passage on chemistry.

Let us take an example,

The early history of the noble elements, ranged in the right-hand column of the periodic table, provided ample support for that view. Just after the noble gas argon was discovered in 1894, the French chemist Henri Moissan mixed it with fluorine, the viciously reactive element that he had isolated in 1886, and sent sparks through the mixture for good measure. Result: nothing. In 1924, the Austrian Friedrich Paneth pronounced the consensus. "The unreactivity of the noble gas elements belongs to the surest of all experimental results," he wrote. The theory of chemical bonding explained why. The noble gases have full outer shells of electrons, and so cannot share other atoms' electrons to form bonds.

What is a noble gas?

a.       Henri Moissan’s discovery

b.      The gases which are inert

c.       Paneth and Moissan’s discovery

d.      The gases which mix easily

The above passage and the relatively simple question that follow might be a cakewalk for a student of chemistry or sciences, but for a commerce student it might be something which is totally new.

The Solution? Read more, more, and more. Read diverse topics. The basic idea behind reading diverse topics is to increase our familiarity with them which ultimately will help us in a better understanding of the passage.

Concentrate:

While a diverse reading definitely helps, one needs to focus upon the passage while reading. Most of us do try and avoid distractions in the examinations, however, it is easy for most of us to fall in the trap and get distracted.

We strongly suggest a total concentration while doing any task. For an example, if you are reading an article, complete it in totality. The same goes for writing and almost everything. Such a habit will eventually help you in every matter and will get you positive results.

And if we have the ability to focus, it is redundant to say that we will be surely successful in tackling RC.

Words!

A good vocabulary is very much helpful in solving RCs.

‘Chutzpah’  a word made famous by the Indian movie Haider, has made many people utter this word but most of them do not know the actual meaning and pronunciation.

(hootzpa) – that is the way it is pronounced. The point is to increase your vocabulary.

With technology by our side, we can definitely use it for the advancement of vocabulary. Use dictionary to the fullest. Read newspapers, magazines, articles, etc. and develop your vocabulary as much as possible.

Food for thought: “faux pas”.  Do we know the meaning and the pronunciation? Start building vocabulary.

These simple steps will build a solid foundation for you to crack RCs and develop a good reading habit.

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Paridhi Trivedi Parikh | Hardik K. Parikh

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