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#CAT. What do I do for Reading Comprehension ? Shall I go through numerous passages ?


Nitesh 24th Feb, 2018
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Shivani sharma 25th Feb, 2018
Hi
According to me, yes you should practice passges and you should also read some books newspaper and try to learn new words daily and add some words daily in your own dictionary so best of luck
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Vishal Sharma 24th Feb, 2018
Yes go through as many as passage hence practice each and every passage you can .... Because reading passage in this exam is very hard and trickiest ...
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Aditi Garg 24th Feb, 2018

Hi Nitesh,

Undoubtedly, Reading Comprehensions form one of the trickiest portions of the CAT exam. The area will test your inferential abilities to the fullest. To assist your preparation, I suggest that you practice 2-3 RCs per day to ensure that you have a strong grasp of cracking this section in the least time possible. That shouldn't be so hard and it'll suffice for your preps.

As for the final CAT exam, I suggest that you must not attempt the questions you are unsure of. Just understand the pattern and trend of RC questions which take up a lot of your time and leave them for the end. Quite a few people are time-starved during CAT because they spend a lot of time in reading and re-reading the comprehension to find the answers. This will help you save time as well. You can also make brief notes and underline the parts you feel are important as you go through the comprehension. Good luck!

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24th Feb, 2018
Yeah.. wish I could underline the sentences which seems imp to me .
Mam Suppose I read the entire passage and if I'm not sure of any of the answers then what I supposed to do ? Because skipping the entire psg after reading and not answering any of the question would be wastage of time !!
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24th Feb, 2018
Hi Nitesh, Yes you obviously cannot afford to skip the passage. Pick up a sample paper and its answer key.Start reading the comprehension question in the sample paper. Don't start attempting anything at first..Just read the comprehension once with a focused mind and try to grasp the meaning of each sentence. After you are done reading the comprehension, read the first question and then side by side read its answer from the answer key/solved paper. Do this for all the questions of the comprehension. Similarly, repeat this activity for 10-15 comprehensions in the same way.This way you will be able to identify the pattern of questions, how the questions are picked up from the comprehension, the location of the answer lying in the comprehension, etc. You will also be able to familiarise yourself with some new words and sentence formations. It will give you a good practice as well.  See if this helps. 
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24th Feb, 2018
Yes... Okay thank you :)
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