Precis & Composition

Reading Comprehension
• Comprehend means Understanding

Comprehension, Retention, Expansion

Comprehension is the understanding of the stuff we are actually reading at

• Sentence Comprehension
• MCQs Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Techniques
• Never Go Back
• Use Pen/Finger for Concentration
• Slow on the First Sentence and then Faster through the rest of each Paragraph
• Skip Stop Words : a, an , the
The boy jumps over the fence.
Boy jumps fence
• Structured Paragraphs
Upside down Triangle Most important given at the top
• 80-20 Pareto Analysis
Reading Strategy
Skipping ( What it is about?)
Skimming ( Getting familiar with main idea) Topic Sentences
Questions ?
MCQs Comprehension
Q.
a)
b)
c)
d)
MCQs Technique FBEP
• F= First sight

• B= Bridging

• E= Elimination

• P= Plug in
Sentence Comprehension
• Step-1 Answer should be compact i.e. to the point ( not more than 3-4 lines)

• Step-2 Syntax S---------V--------O

I am teaching you.
• Step-3 Subject------Verb(Tense)

One may pick from question W/H Family

• Step-4 Object/ Reason
 Conjunction
• And/both/with/along with/together with/in addition to/as well as/accompanied by/coupled
with etc.
• But/only/rather/till/nevertheless/until/however etc.
• ----ing gerund Revamping education,------ relating/concerning/pertaining/regarding thus
enabling
• To-v-first form Infinitive To revamp education,-----
• Preposition on/at/of/by
•---ly adverb Conclusively, Conversely, resultantly

• Conjunction as/for/because/owing to
Sentence Comprehension
• Step-5 One cannot pick original words from the text except key words( Proper Noun)
• Step-6 Contextual Meaning

Chair-----Noun to chair------Verb
House----Noun to house----Verb
Assimilate your food
Assimilate your lesson
Lexicon-Thesaurus
Bear-----animal
Bear-----tolerance
Bear-----Business Operators/Speculators

If we like to be successful we have to bear this idea in our mind

Hold/keep/recollect/remember/conserve/preserve/memorize/retain
Home Work
Work Book Oxford English for Colleges by D.H.Howe
• The First Boats Comprehension

• CSS attempt 2005 Comprehension