Solving English Reading Comprehension has become an inevitable part of almost every competitive examination. The question that linger in every aspirant’s mind is “How to improve Reading comprehension?”

Students are habituated to solve simple and direct passages in their school days, but when it comes to competitive exams, the task becomes difficult. Unable to understand the vocabulary (meaning of words) and concept of the passage, students become dull and uninterested in this section.

I may give you some tips and strategies to achieve success in the examination, but the ultimate solution lies not in shortcut solutions, but long term preparation and hard work, obviously. you need to have the courage to prepare and adhere to a systematic plan.

So, here are some Reading Comprehension strategies to follow, to get more marks in Reading Comprehension.

1. A complaint which I hear often is that, the students are unable to understand the given reading comprehension. If you belong to this category, you need to understand that

You don’t need to understand each and every word of the comprehension
At the same time, you should t find the gist (summary) of it.
Both these points above may appear contradictory

But the crucial thing is, you need to eliminate the words, phrases, sentences from the Reading Comprehension that are not useful and need to focus on keywords.

2. Find your strengths first.

To improve reading comprehension, first you need to find your strengths first.

The conservative approach to solving a passage is, to read the passage first, and then go to the questions and solve them.

But some students do not feel comfortable with this method. Probably they do not know which keywords to remember while going through the comprehension. Or, they may have to read the comprehension again, after reading the questions.

This lead to the problem of Time Management.

Solution:

you can choose the “bottom up” approach. That means, read the questions first, so that you have an idea what to look for, in the comprehension.

But ultimately you are the better judge of which approach is the best. So, practice several reading comprehensions in two different approaches and find out which method suits you.
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