You are preparing for your management entrance exams and English is one of the verticals. Since you take lots of time in comprehensions, you are afraid that it may negatively affect your overall score. By improving on your speed, you can complete your exam faster and even concentrate more on other verticals like math, reasoning etc. To score high in an entrance exam will help you get an entry into a prestigious career, and secure your future life as well. You will able to read and process English information much faster. Listed below are five tips to help you increase your English speed for entrance exams.

5 Tips to boost your speed:

1. Read, Read, Read!

The importance of reading cannot be stressed enough. Reading helps you to get a better grasp at English words. Making this a daily habit will automatically improve your reading speeds. Every day try to read an article faster than the day before. Once your reading capacity improves, you will automatically develop a high speed in going through comprehensions.

2. Scan

For faster response time, it is preferable to have a casual glance at the whole English subject matter. This will help you get a gist of what the comprehension or prose is all about.  It is very easy to answer questions once you understand the message conveyed. You will be able to comprehend the words in the passage or sentences even if you give it a single glance.

3. Grammar

Make sure that your grammatical concepts are strong. There is no need to go in depth as entrance exams questions are usually designed to test intermediate grammatical skills. The special focus should be on prepositions, adjectives, adverbs and sentence framing. Grammar is a part where you can score the maximum, even full marks and improve your final score. It can be your ace in the pack to stay ahead of the competition.

4. Connect the sentences

Many candidates make the mistake of wasting time trying to understand the meaning of a hard word. The easiest way to handle the word is to understand under what context the sentence is framed. Once you understand the situation, it is very easy to learn the meaning of that particular word. This approach will help you save precious time and energy, which can be invested in other verticals.

For example:

1. He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring and tedious.

In the above sentence, you may get stuck on the word 'obnoxious'. You should observe the sentence. It is in a negative frame with words like 'repetitive, boring, tedious'.  Therefore, you can understand that it is used as the critical point. It the above sentence, obnoxious means offensive, rude etc.

5. Look at the options

One of the fastest ways to solve English questions is to first look what the options are. This will help you narrow your focus and options. The best way this will work is to properly speed read the passage, prose or questions.

The above five tips will help you solve the English section of your entrance exams quickly. Many students take the benefit of English to further improve their scores. If your quantitative skills are weak, English vocabulary skills will surely help you boost your scores. You can train yourself with the help of an online English tutor and increase your probability of scoring high! All the best.

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