Reading comprehension tests your abilities to analyze and understand the information provided in the form of textual content. It tests you on the below skills:
- To understand the meaning of the text, sentence, and paragraphs
- To infer the conclusion from complex bodies of text
- Understanding the outline of passage given
- Concluding the information from the given passage
- Understanding the outline of the missing data and concluding the information
- Understanding the structure of the text and how each part is related
- To understand and identify the author's premise and outlook
- Forming alternative explanations
As it is clear from the above list of skills, in the test, it is important to get a gist of the text that is provided. This ability to derive inferences from the passage and answering the questions provided in reference to the paragraphs is what this section is all about.
The
verbal section is all about how fast you can read and understand information. This test contains
around 10 passages of which most of the passages have a single paragraph and only
a few have more than one paragraphs.
Passages contain topics from the variety of subjects like
sciences, social science, business, books, and articles, academic, non-academic and day to day topics.
About half of the questions will be asked based on the passages provided. The questions per passage would range from 1 to 6. Questions could cover topics like asking about the meaning of the passage, estimation of the passage and the overall concept of the passage. Many questions but not all, will be a standard multiple-choice question like choosing a single correct answer from the choices given but they may also ask questions that you may have to choose multiple correct answers.