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Mini Reading List 1: Introducing Asimov and Arthur C Clarke

Please Read: (Pretty Please) Ask Multivax 9 billion names of god and we keep quiet in deference to the great masters.

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Main idea is the main idea

Days to CAT : Around 90 The significance of “Main idea”/Topic Statement Identification While reading , looking for the central idea is the key to understanding what is really going on in the passage and how the various pieces of … Continue reading

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Making Meaning

Always remember that your principle task while any reading is to figure out what the author is trying to say. Previous Text analysis samples provided must have elucidated the fact then you see 40 lines , the crux of the … Continue reading

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Detect Similarities

Text Structure Compare The ability to detect relations is the principle task for any thinker. In the following  text identify the use of Comparison as a relationship between ideas. Remember comparison mean looking for similarities . The resumption of talks … Continue reading

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more Meta Reading Illustration

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 In 1972, after 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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CAT 99 passage 3 analysis

Take the quiz here Analysis Thus Paragraph 1 and 2 word play to be added here

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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: Contrast

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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D.T.A Day 4

Original Text The ‘last mile’ challenges sellers of products and services in rural India. Customers are widely dispersed, infrastructure to reach them is inadequate, and therefore profits are elusive. A way out for businesses, explained in CII’s report on ‘Winning … Continue reading

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D.T.A day 3

Special keyword Focus : Not…………..but…………. Text Structure: Problem- Solution Awareness of commonly used language structures can greatly enhance comprehension in simpler words Keywords and transitive phrases aid comprehension by providing known structures to organize information.  Most of us by now … Continue reading

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Daily Text Analysis : Day 1

Read the passage Identify the main Idea The housing shortage in India, according to conservative official estimates of the Tenth Five Year Plan, is approximately 22.4 million. In urban areas alone the demand-supply gap is about 17 million units. According … Continue reading

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Trying to explain structure provided by keywords

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Text Structure : Argument/ Counter Argument

CAT 1999 Read and Answer the questions that follow at the end of the passage Have you ever come across a painting, by Picasso, Mondrian, Miro, or any other modem abstract painter of this century, and found yourself engulfed in … Continue reading

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