Tips to Improve Reading Comprehension

Besides the above approaches, below are a few tips to help you answer the questions asked in a comprehension:

1. Find Purpose of given passage

While reading the passage, try to figure out the main idea/purpose of the whole passage, for example, what passage covers, in what manner the passage has been designed, and the important information/points involved in it. This will help in answering the questions related to the most suitable title for comprehension.

2. Highlight the critical words

This will help in answering the questions related to antonyms/synonyms. You can easily answer such questions if you have a good vocabulary. In case, your vocabulary is not good, try reading the sentence in which the word is used so as to get a rough idea of its meaning/implication.

3. Select correct option

There will be multiple options for a single question to help you ascertain better and select the correct one.  

4. Practice More Problems

Practice as much as you can. It is the key to gaining command over comprehension.

5. Examine the concepts

Examine the contents of the passage hastily.

6. Don’t Assume

Do not apply your own knowledge and assumption to the facts of the passage.  

“Reading Comprehension” is one of the most important topics when it comes to banking exams. As the name itself suggests, comprehension is a passage given in the question paper and it has to be read thoroughly by the students so as to be able to answer the questions that follow. Generally, this section is a scoring one if one has a good knowledge of vocabulary. 

Basically, the “reading comprehension” section is designed to evaluate one’s ability to read and understand the topic. Comprehension can be designed from any of the topics, for eg., political, economic, science, arts, social, etc. However, the most crucial yet the easiest part of this section is – the answers are found in the comprehension itself, if the reading and grasping ability is good. Always remember, even the most difficult topics can be understood and the trickiest questions can be answered by reading the passage as many times as possible.