In general reading comprehension is the ability to read text, process it and understand its meaning. Simply put, reading comprehension is the act of understanding what you are reading. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text.
The Indian Army MNS Syllabus Consists General English Section Which Have Following Topics:
Synonyms/ Homonyms.
Antonyms.
Spot the error.
Fill in the blanks.
Spellings.
Detecting Mis-spelt words.
Idioms and phrases.
One word substitutions.
Shuffling of sentence parts.
Shuffling of Sentences in a passage.
Improvement.
Cloze passage.
Comprehension passage
Military Nursing Service Exam English Section Tips on Reading Comprehension
There are specific traits that determine how successfully an individual will comprehend text:
- Prior knowledge about the text.
- Well-developed language.
- Identifying the main idea of the text.
- Summarising ability, make rapid summaries as working through the text.
- Ability to make inferences which means conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Tips
- Read then question first and grasp the keywords and store them in your memory, then move to reading comprehension keeping those keywords in mind.
- Make answers from the given text passage. You should not make your own answers based on your own opinions.
- Read all the given answer choices before selecting the correct one.
- If a question asks about a particular line, don’t go back in to the passage and read just that line. A good rule of thumb is to read at least 2 sentences before and after the line in question.
- While reading passage underline key words or sentences that contain the main idea. Jot down any notes, probably just a word or two.
- For one word choice questions such as antonym or synonym select your answer based
- on the context of the passage not on your prior knowledge of the word.
- Know why the wrong answer is wrong, while selecting a choice you should not only care about which one is the correct answer but also know why other choices are not suitable as the correct choice.
Sample Passage
Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and it is these differences that we perceive as different colours. White light has all the wavelengths of the light spectrum mixed up together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum. The rest of the spectrum is absorbed by the object. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it. An object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.
- Without colours we would consider the world a dull and less beautiful place.
- True
- False
- Cannot tell
- White light is an amalgam of all the wave lengths of light.
- True
- False
- Cannot tell
- The passage states that an object that looks blue absorbs all but the blue wavelengths of light.
- True
- False
- Cannot tell
- The colour we perceive an object to be is determined by the electromagnetic waves that it absorbs or reflects.
- True
- False
- Cannot tell
- White paint reflects more light than red paint.
- True
- False
- Cannot tell
Answers
- (c) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (a)
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