Improving Reading Comprehension

Ashish · Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Pune

Since, the RC Section has about 6 passages which constitutes about
35 questions & each passage is of about 800-1000 words.

1. What are the ways of increasing the comprehension speed without
losing the grasp of the subject in context?

2. Any reading exercise / software available ?

Hoping for a prompt and an honest reply.
Ashish

NeXgeN · Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 2

i got this technique from a book for fast reading

while reading ..dont go about reading each word one after the other instead divide the sentence into parts and read those parts at once. this takes practice...so u can start by reading newspapers...making three colums of the report on the paper and start reading each part of a sentence at once rather concentrating on every word. here u will make mistakes while reading but you can get the picture about what is being said....after all speed reading is the key Wink

all the best.

mukulsbrother · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1 Location: New Delhi

It has always helped me to place my pencil or a sheet of paper covering everything below the line i am reading, kinda lets off the pressure...

montex · Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 23 Location: New Delhi

friend, i believe reading with the heip of your finger helps a greatdeal in improving your speed and the rest is on your retention power. hope this would help try it out once Wink

sumitsingh · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

hi friends i m not agree with all of u

u shud not use pencil, finger or cover lines while reading and u shud not use ur mouth in reading bcause all these reduce ur speed

start reading novels , start picking theme and tone of passage

increase ur eye span , intead reading letters or words try to go for whole sentence and there is no escape from practice

keep practising