Sentence Completion
The following strategies can be used in tackling the sentence completion questions in a more effective manner. They are
- Read the incomplete sentence and try to fit your own words in before looking at the answer choices.
- Pay attention to grammatical clues.
- Break down sentences with two blanks into parts and analyze each part individually.
- See that both parts of your answer choice fit the sentence correctly.
The below points will be helpful in answering the antonyms accurately:
- Try to define the word precisely
- Look for shades of meaning of the given word
- Make a sentence with it
- Analyze the prefix or suffix to help establish a individual words meaning
- Eliminate irrelevant answer choices
The key points to tackle in the analogies are given below:
- Try to establish a strong relationship between the given pair of words
- Consider relationships of kind, size, spatial contiguity, or degree.
- If more than one of the answer choices seems correct, try to state the relationship more precisely.
- Check for second meanings of the given words
This is the more difficult and a very challenging section with regard to the students. To solve them, you need:
- Go through the passage once to get the general idea of the passage.
- Do not try to memorize details but instead pay attention to the topic and the focus of the passage as you read.
- For questions asking you to give the passage a title, look at the first and last lines of the passage for clues.
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