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.

Persons who are skilled in reading do not just grasp the information given in the passage; instead, they have the ability of understanding, evaluating and concluding; reasoning and recognizing from what they have read and understood so far and picture the whole content by recalling it. Text completion tests your ability to choose the correct phrases or words that are missing in the passage.
Passage consists of 1 to 5 sentences with 1 to 3 blanks each. Each blank has 3 choices of answer mostly. Occasionally, there are 5 choices of answers where there is just 1 blank in the passage or sentence. The choice needs to be logically and syntactically correct for the paragraph/sentence. </brHow to attempt these questions?
Read the passage thoroughly and understand the concept or outline of the passage given.
Text completions are sometimes a long paragraph, so it may confuse us, so break down the paragraph i.e. paraphrase the paragraph so that you can understand the outline of the passage.
First, try to fill in the blanks with your understanding of the words and then check with the choices of the words given.
Do not assume that the first blank has to be filled first; if your familiar and confident with the answers in the other blanks, you can fill it and then come back to the first blank choose from the choices given or left.
Finally, when you have your choices in all the blanks, check whether your passage is logically, grammatically and syntactically correct.

Similar to text completion, sentence equivalence also has an incomplete passage which checks the ability to reach a conclusion but mostly it checks your abilities on understanding the meaning of the completed passage as a whole. In sentence equivalence, there is a question with a single blank similar to text completion. However, here you will be asked to choose two answers which have similar meanings and results in a sentence which gives you similar corresponding meaning too.
The question consists of:

• A single sentence with one blank


• Six choices of answers per question


• Two of six are the correct answers

Thus, you have to choose two words with similar meaning. You don’t have credits for partial answers. Hence, before choosing the answers ensure that you are choosing the correct one. Take care of below points:

• Firstly, the choice of answers given may have the same meaning so as to get you confused but logically does not fit into the sentence.


• Secondly, there is no rule that a pair of correct answers should mean the same. It is important that when put into the blank, the sentence or paragraph should mean the same.

How to attempt these type questions?

• Read the paragraph and paraphrase it, read each sentence until you get the meaning of it.


• Identify the phrases in the sentences and fill them, so that you may get an appropriate meaning of the sentence.


• Do not assume that the first blank has to be filled first; if you are familiar and confident with the answers in the other blanks, you can fill it in first and then come back to the remaining options & choose the next possible answer.


• Finally, once you have selected your combination of choices in all the blanks, check whether your sentence is logically, grammatically and syntactically correct.

• Reading a passage requires more than understanding. Read through the passage thoroughly and understand the concept or outline of the passage given.


• It may confuse you if it’s too long. In such cases, break down the paragraph i.e. paraphrase the paragraph so that you can understand the outline of the passage.
  
• Understanding the outline in the missing data and concluding the information.
  
• In text completion, passage consists of sentences ranging from one to five with one to three blanks. Identify the phrases in the sentences with your own words and fill them, so that you may get an appropriate meaning of the sentence.
  
• Do not assume that the first blank has to be filled first; if your familiar and confident with the answers in the other blanks, you can fill it and then come back to the first blank choose from the choices given or left. Finally, your sentence should be coherent.

The following points need to be taken care of while answering the verbal section:

• When you conclude at an answer, you should check that it is reasonable and appropriate to the asked question


• Make sure you answered the question correctly for the asked question


• Is your answer logically apt for the asked question? By recalling or picturing the outline of the passage or sentences given and checking whether your answer is consistent with that fact.


• Did you make any mistake in understanding the outline or logic of the question/passage, choosing the answer? Is there any key-entry error? You must check whether you have made any errors while choosing the answers.