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CAT 2k Reading Comprehension passage 2 analysis

Text Analysis Round 1 or Preliminary analysis : High word Count , Repeating words and ideas. Topic Statements and elaborations

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What should be the color of the first paragraph ?

Trial Aided reading and text structure recognition exercise A boy and his inseparable partner, a cute pug-faced dog. Aamir Khan in a string of refreshing new avatars, telling us the matlab of thanda. What do some of these highly memorable … Continue reading

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Eliminate the specifics

And what you have left is the main idea. Identify and eliminate  all the specifics used in the following text and identify the central idea of the text That Information Technology (IT) is an extremely potent tool to alleviate the … Continue reading

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Analysis Paralysis

1. Identify at most 5 sentences which reflect the central idea of the passage 2. Identify Keywords 3. Describe the color coding 4. Identify cases of topic statement and elaboration 5. Provide Meta-listing of the passage Chief Justice V N … Continue reading

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for Pattern seekers and map makers

one of the fundamental skills in reading is the ability to identify patterns and the structures being used to organize the information in a piece of text . Early recognition of the structure of information can make assimilating information easier.  … Continue reading

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Text Structure: Compare

one of the fundamental skills in reading is the ability to identify patterns and the structures being used to organize the information in a piece of text . Early recognition of the structure of information can make assimilating information easier.  … Continue reading

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Text Structure : Chronological

Being able to detect patterns in information can make the task of Comprehension both easier and faster . Early detection of the main idea and the noticing how the information is organized before actually reading the details can make handling … Continue reading

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Text Break Down

For each of the following paragraphs , Identify the main idea/Topic statement 1. Like many other fast-growing cities around the world, Mexico City is facing severe water shortages. Many of its 20 million inhabitants receive only one hour of piped … Continue reading

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Divide and Conquer

Reading Skills generalized to information handling We have been screaming , shouting , showing , sharing the idea of Dividing all INFORMATION into the main idea/Topic Statement and secondary details/elaborations/examples etc.(You can access  text analysis samples based on this idea … Continue reading

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D.T.A Day 2

The question foremost in the mind of a reader should be (especially while reading expository text ) “What is the author trying to Say “. Segregating the specifics out and focusing on the general point being made is a sure … Continue reading

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Structure: Comparison Illustration

What is the main Idea of the text ? Truth is our element of life, yet if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth, and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth … Continue reading

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