CAT has a section called Reading Comprehension. Reading Comprehension tests your ability to read a document and take out the most important points in a very short time.
Reading Comprehension section expects you to read a particular prose and answer some questions based on that prose. Advantage of this section is that if you can read and understand that particular prose you can answer a number of questions at one go. This helps you to increase your number attempted in the test. Downside is if you waste too much time reading and understanding then the time taken for answering each question may become disproportionately high.
Therefore to successfully crack Reading Comprehension (RC) you need to speed read. Speed Reading is a technique by which you can pick up the salient points in a prose without reading each and every word. Practicing speed reading will help you to scan a prose fast and comprehend the basic points the author is trying to convey.
To practice speed reading you first need to read the entire prose word by word. Then mark the relevant words in the text which you feel are most important and without which you would be unable to comprehend the paragraph. Then read those words only. See whether you are able to answer all the questions by only reading the underlined words. Once you have done this a few number of times you would start automatically read the relevant section of the text passage and your speed reading competency would increase. Slowly reduce number of words you need to read in a passage till such time you hit your basic minimum. Remember speed reading is a very individualistic exercise. The number of words you need to read to understand the passage may vary from your friend.
Practice the above mentioned technique for next 1 month and you will see a drastic improvement in RC scores.
By:
Prof. Debdutta Choudhury
IIM C – batch 37
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