The purpose of the Verbal Test is to evaluate and analyze your English comprehension and understanding towards the language. The questions will be basically asked to judge the sentence completion, analogy and critical reading skills. The questions of different types i.e. about sentence completion and analogy testing will be asked randomly. The questions about the critical reading however will be asked separately.
4.1 About the Verbal Questions
As already discussed, this section will consist of the following types of questions i.e. sentence completion, analogy and the critical reading. The detail about each section is as below;
4.1.1 Sentence Completion
The questions that come under this category are provided with various choices. You are asked to complete the sentences by filling in the blanks with the most suitable choice.
The questions for sentence completion can be related to any of the other areas of study i.e. science, literature, history, geography etc but the subject matter would not hinder your language abilities. You are asked to complete the sentence with the use of correct grammar or vocabulary.
These questions try to determine your ability to recognize the correct sentence structure, right grammar and how you make the correct choice of vocabulary.
Techniques for Sentence Completion
For the sentence completion a few choices are given that could be selected for completing the sentences. Only one choiceis correct out of the several choices. You have to complete the sentence by selecting the correct choice according to the grammar or vocabulary. For making the right choice you can benefit from the following techniques;
• After you read the incomplete sentence do not look at the choices. Try to think about the correct answer yourself. If you think that you have completed the sentence and found the correct choice you can consult your list of choices. If the answer you thought matches one of the choices mentioned in the list that is most probably the right choice to be marked. If it does not match with the choice you can look for a synonym replacement. This tactic is very helpful in finding the right answer, it prevents you from confusing yourself with the wrong choices. • Do not select the choice hastily. Even if you are satisfied with your choice try to substitute it with the other choices so that you are more satisfied with your decision. Sometimes the other choice fits more appropriately to the sentence.
• When you are asked to complete a sentence, which has two spaces to be filled in, try to put the first word of every choice in the first blank. Note down the choice that you find best. Now for the second blank try every second choice of all choices. Note the choice that you think is most appropriate. Check if the two selected choices are matching one of the given pair of choices. If it does then select it as your correct choice, if not then consider this pair as a wrong choice and try with the other choices.
• If you find difficulty in making sense out of certain words and you are not very familiar with them you can try to make a guess with reference to the context of the sentence. Try to break the word into various parts and analyze its meaning e.g. if you do not know the meaning of the word “civilization” break it into two i.e. ‘civilize’ and ‘ation’ now you may know the meaning of civilize and through the term ‘ation’ you can make out that the word is a noun of civilize. If you find the word unfamiliar with prefixes and suffixes divide the word into its parts e.g. prerecording. This word consists of both prefix and suffix. You can break the word like pre-record-ing. Here you know that pre means before, record means to store and -ing is a term of continuous tense. So you can find this break up of words quite helpful in making out the right sense. If none of the technique works try making a guess with reference to the context.
• When long and complex sentences confuse you then try to break that sentence into smaller more sentences by rephrasing it. After you divide it compare with the original sentence to avoid any misinterpretation. If you are satisfied read the smaller sentences to get the idea more clearly.
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