How to crack English in BITSAT English and Logical Reasoning - PART 2

This post is 2nd part of the How to Crack English in BITSAT English and Logical Reasoning series. It is advisable to read the first part before reading this post.

As discussed in the earlier post, there are 4 models of questions- Synonyms and Antonyms, Jumbled Paragraphs, Questions on Essay, and Grammar. This post discusses tips and tricks to crack BITSAT English by exploiting these question models.I am giving these tips considering you will allocate at least 1 month of time to prepare for BITSAT English and Logical Reasoning.

Synonyms and Antonyms:

• This is the most common model of question and you can expect at least 2 questions of this type.
• Learn Parts of Speech from a good book .
• Try to get hold of a GRE preparation material from some one among your neighbors, relatives or friends and learn some important words.
• If you have more time try to read from dictionary. If you don't have time, you need not by-heart totally.Though you may not remember it clearly, you will at least have idea about the word.
• If a word that is unknown to you is given in the test, try to identify the Parts of Speech of the word. The answer should also be belonging to same Parts of Speech. Most of the times, at least half of the options are in other parts of Speech and you might be able to identify the right answer.

 Jumbled Paragraphs:

• Among all the models, this type could be the easy scoring model.
• You need to have an idea about how the sequence of events could be.
• Try to read newspaper daily and visualize the structure/ sequence of sentences in paragraphs
• During the test time, its always best to identify which sentence could be beginning and concluding sentences of the paragraph.Once you identify the starting and concluding lines, its very easy to identify the sequence of sentence.
• Even if you could not identify anything from the paragraph, don't just skip the question.This is the easiest scoring model and don't miss it. Try to see the options given and choose which of them is giving a meaningful paragraph.

Question on Essay:

• This type of questions, once are presented, will come with at least 2 questions. So, if you understand the paragraph well, you can answer minimum 6 marks easily.If you are unable to understand its a big loss.Hence, spend more time in reading and understanding the paragraph/essay very well.
• Though this type of questions were easy in early years of BITSAT, they are becoming difficult year by year. So, you have to concentrate very well on this type of models.You can't just randomly guess answers for this model.
• Like for Jumbled Paragraphs, Reading Newspaper Daily helps even for this model of questions.
• While answering these questions, don't make any assumptions. Answer only from what is given in the essay. For example, you can't assume India is an independent country while answering the question because, some times the essay might be of pre-independent India.

Grammar:

• This is the model with maximum types and number of questions. So, you have to concentrate on these questions to score high marks in English.
• You need to be very strong in your English Grammar and that is the only best way to score well in this.
• Learn Parts of Speech, Tenses, Verb forms, Conditional Sentences, Types of Sentences etc., to score well in this exam.
• Follow some good book like Wren & Martin and strengthen your basics.
• Though you have some good knowledge in English language, still don't neglect it. Start from the basics.

With the above tips, I am sure you are going to crack BITSAT English and achieve some good BITSAT scores.