How to Effectively Tackle Reading Comprehension Summary Questions?


Thu Sep 10, 2020

Since 2015, the CAT has increased the number of Reading Comprehension questions to 24 (out of a total of 34 questions in the Verbal Ability section). From this it can be easily inferred that this question type is of immense importance and failure to master RC questions would in all likelihood result in a test taker failing to clear the cut-offs for this section. Moreover, since these are regular MCQ questions with negative marks (for an incorrect answer) a determined test taker must chalk out a well planned and well practiced strategy on ways to attempt and ace this question type.

What are RC Summary Questions

Reading Comprehension questions that involve reading of the whole entry to have the option to answer them are RC summary questions. Questions whose answers are situated in an aspect of the section are known as RC explicit questions. In this article we will see approaches to illuminate RC summary questions as it were.

Typical RC Summary Questions

Run of the mill RC questions incorporate focal thought of the section/passage, the likely title of the entry, the style or tone of the entry, which of the accompanying can (or can't) be construed/finished up from the section and so on. These questions will require the test taker to peruse the whole section to be in a situation to answer them.

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Examples of RC Summary Questions

In light of his perspectives referenced in the section, one could best portray Dr. Watrall as being:

Of the accompanying contentions, which one is LEAST liable to be utilized by the organizations that carefully filter social locales?

Which of the accompanying, assuming valid, would most unequivocally discredit Dr. Watrall's complaints?

The "issue" referenced in the entry alludes to:

As per the entry, provincial forces found their capitals:

As per the creator, migrating government organizations has not generally been a triumph for the entirety of the accompanying reasons EXCEPT:

From the entry it very well may be induced that urban communities are acceptable spots to live in for the entirety of the accompanying reasons EXCEPT that they:

Which one of the accompanying articulations would subvert the creator's stand with respect to the greenness of urban communities?

As should be obvious, expressions, for example, 'as per the entry,' 'from the section,' 'Aside from' questions, 'which one of the accompanying proclamations', 'which of the accompanying,' 'of coming up next contentions' referenced in the inquiry stem are summary questions in light of the fact that the test taker would need to peruse the whole section to have the option to answer them.

Procedures Required for Solving Various RC Summary Questions

Topic/Central Idea of the Passage

(1) Central thoughts are commonly arranged in the starting and closing areas of the section.

(2) Pay thoughtfulness regarding any redundancy of a thought.

(3) The length dedicated to clarifying a thought in the section likewise shows the significance of the thought.

(4) Opinion-loaded words – modifiers and intensifiers – help you to examine the creator's demeanor towards a thought and this might be significant while choosing the right choice, eg. 'great', 'well', 'lucky', and so forth.

(5) The reason for the section may likewise be asked and it alludes to the capacity that the entry acts as far as presenting a thought, clarifying or depicting a thought, breaking down a thought or contending for a specific point of view. The motivation behind the section addresses the inquiry why the entry is composed, i.e., it is the goal of the entry.

Tone of the Passage

The way wherein the thoughts are introduced and the creator's mentality towards the subject comprise the tone of the section. For instance – one may decide to state that one is irate, in a low tone, noisily, yell, typical tone, with clench hands grasped, snicker it out. Every one of these tones passes on a particular importance and adds layers to the thought expressed. The tone of a RC entry is clear in the feeling loaded descriptors and qualifiers inside the section, particularly those around the primary thoughts of the entry.

A portion of the major recognizable tones are Objective, Neutral, Dispassionate, Unbiased, Disinterested and Impartial. These tones are objective and will need assessment loaded modifiers in the entry.

Different tones, for example, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Cynical, Critical, Complex, Abstruse, Laudatory, Didactic, Satirical, Sarcastic or comical are abstract tones and will have feeling loaded descriptors and/or modifiers that present the writer's perspective and endeavor to convince or predisposition the peruser.

Inferences

Surmisings require the test taker to peruse the whole section or enormous bits of the entry to have the option to endeavor them. Deductions are commonly implicit and are coherent groupings to the idea or thought that comes after a thought or thought has been referenced in the section. So, the test taker needs to extrapolate from a thought or perspective referenced in the section and step forward.

Model: China is the world's biggest market for cell phones. China has the most elevated number of organizations fabricating cell phones on the planet.

Right Inference: China is a nation with an enormous populace since it is the biggest market for a specific item – for this situation cell phones.

Implausible Inference: China is a nation with the biggest populace on the planet since it is the biggest market for cell phones. Since the market for cell phones is the biggest in China we can securely accept that China is a huge nation yet we can't gather with conviction that it is the biggest nation on the planet regarding populace. It isn't vital that the biggest market for cell phones will be the nation with the most elevated populace.

Alternative Method for solving RC Summary type Questions

There is another attempted and tried strategy for settling RC summary questions all the more rapidly. Rather than the customary strategy for reading the section first and afterward responding to the questions identified with it, have a go at reading the questions first and afterward read the entry in quite a while aggregate. The upsides of this methodology are self-evident. On the off chance that you have held in your memory the sort of summary questions that have been asked, at that point you can guess the section keeping in thoughts that you need to discover answers to these questions as it were. That way, one brisk reading of the entry will be adequate to have the option to answer most or all the summary questions and you will have the option to spare a lot of time. Nonetheless, understudies are encouraged to give this methodology a shot an experimentation premise while endeavoring the fake CATs. Just in the event that you have drilled this strategy various occasions and are certain are you encouraged to utilize this technique in the CAT test corridor.

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