How to be a Master of English language section?
Hello Friends,
As you know that many of the exams such as IDBI Assistant,SBI Clerk,NABARD Assistant Manger etc. have been lined up for the upcoming days.
As we know that A significant number of students turn out to be unsuccessful in the exam because they are not able to clear the cutoff for this section. But if you are able to improve upon this subject, then you can definitely score well in your exams. Now, the question comes that why are students not able to score well in this section?
In these exams, it is not necessary to solve all the questions, the thing that is necessary is that whatever we do must be accurate. Many of you find it difficult to score good marks in English section. Sometimes, it becomes difficult to clear even the sectional cutoff for an average student. Even those who are good in speaking English are not able to clear this section because the type of questions asked in the exam are confusing and tricky.
The major topics important for bank exams and their preparation techniques are as follows:
Reading comprehension: This is the most holistic type of section as it tests all your concepts and your ability of understanding. To prepare for this section, read newspaper editorials with proper understanding. This will make you familiar with the writing style used in this section. Sometimes paragraphs come directly from various articles of leading English newspapers. Our portals provide many RC questions which you can practice strengthening this topic.
Grammar: Questions from Error spotting, sentence correction, fill in the blanks require knowledge of grammar to solve them. Read standard grammar books to prepare topics like articles, tenses, verbs, modifiers, connectors, determiners, gerunds etc.
Vocabulary: Phrasal replacement, cloze test, fill in the blanks, double fillers, antonyms-synonyms, all these questions require good vocabulary. To improve your vocabulary, read new words daily. You can also learn new words from our daily vocab words list. Sometimes RC gets time consuming and we are not able to attempt desired number of questions, so if we have 2-3 questions related to antonym-synonym we can directly attempt them without wasting much time. Sometimes we can even deduce the meaning of the word by reading by reading the line in the article. This is a very important topic for this section.
Verbal ability: Para jumbles are asked from this section. you need to have an idea about how to analyze the theme of the jumbles and then relate the sentences.
Here are some common mistakes that students make during their preparation phase, that makes them unable to get a good score in English.
- Practice reading pdf files of the newspaper on the screen.
- Use more and more words and then you will not get confused with the words in your exam.
- Just studying grammatical rules won’t help. You have to retain them in your mind so well that your brain becomes programmed to choose the correct answer whenever asked for.
- Whenever you read something, read it properly and deduce a proper inference out of it.
Last but not the least, while attempting various exams, students attempt some questions for which they are not sure. This should be avoided. Accuracy is a very important factor to clear such exams.
