To read and answer better Over come the Speed Breakers
Contents What is a Speed Breaker What happens Speed Breakers -1 Locate The Contextual Meaning Speed Breaker-2 Speed Breaker-3 Speed Breaker-4 Read From The Writer’s Point Of View
What is a Speed Breaker Mainly they are the traps set by ETS to test the reading ability Secondly, the blunders committed
by the test takers. Eventually leads to a poor score.
What happens Slows down reading Hampers comprehension Stops from answering all the questions Can be misleading
Speed Breakers 1 Regression - repeatedly reading the same line is to
REGRESS. Avoid it New words & Phrases-locate the contextual meaning
in the first reading itself. Sometimes the passage is dense but the questions are
not related to the difficult part. Hence, general details can be more helpful then
specific details
Locate the Contextual Meaning
The Speed Breakers 2 Questions misunderstood-Read clearly (facts, Ideas
mentioned in the passage but not related to the question) Unmentioned ideas combined with repeated ideas &
words give incorrect implications-Read clearly
The Speed Breaker 3 Answer choices rearranged to state ideas incorrectly-
Don’t Be In Haste Negative formations and antonyms –Don’t Be In Haste Distorted/altered information, both in Qs & As- Read
With Clarity
The Speed Breakers 4 Repeated words can mislead-Understand The
Question Previous knowledge on the topic - The right answer is
the one which is based on The Writer’s Point Of View Not Your Own
Read From the Writer’s Point of View
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