Hi Everybody,
The air is buzzing with exam preparation, the CAT and IIFT forms are out and all of you must be busy filling them up. Come 16th November, the exam harvests starts.
So, from now on, I'll definitely get a little bit exam oriented.I mean Questions, Words, Frameworks and above all Critical Reasoning.
Critical Reasoning and Logical Thinking is the denominator for all the numerators, RC's, Coherent Paragraphs, Sentence Correction and so on.
You must be taking AIMCAT's on Saturdays and Sundays and I am sure that on Sunday nights, you must be burning the midnight oil, analyzing AIMCAT's.
Remember, reading is the key. In my previous postings, I have told you how to read. I reiterate that when you read a passage, try to recognize the coherence of sentences, the restatement of words and phrases, thought connects and so on.
This will ensure that you have mapped the passage perfectly. Then start answering the questions. While you are reading, recognize grammatical constructions, figures of speech, idiomatic usage and so on.
This can be called cognitivism. I will be putting small passages, thought processes, philosophical ramblings and so on and put some questions after that.
Answer those questions and check them out after a couple of days when i answer them.
While marking the options, it is very important that for every option you have negated out a reason for negation, or, frame a question that can be answered by that option.
So here is a small poem with a couple of questions
So, from now on, I'll definitely get a little bit exam oriented.I mean Questions, Words, Frameworks and above all Critical Reasoning.
Critical Reasoning and Logical Thinking is the denominator for all the numerators, RC's, Coherent Paragraphs, Sentence Correction and so on.
You must be taking AIMCAT's on Saturdays and Sundays and I am sure that on Sunday nights, you must be burning the midnight oil, analyzing AIMCAT's.
Remember, reading is the key. In my previous postings, I have told you how to read. I reiterate that when you read a passage, try to recognize the coherence of sentences, the restatement of words and phrases, thought connects and so on.
This will ensure that you have mapped the passage perfectly. Then start answering the questions. While you are reading, recognize grammatical constructions, figures of speech, idiomatic usage and so on.
This can be called cognitivism. I will be putting small passages, thought processes, philosophical ramblings and so on and put some questions after that.
Answer those questions and check them out after a couple of days when i answer them.
While marking the options, it is very important that for every option you have negated out a reason for negation, or, frame a question that can be answered by that option.
So here is a small poem with a couple of questions
The time is after dinner
Cigarettes glow on the lawn
Glasses begin to tinkle
T.V. sets have been turned on
Like a glass of beer
The moon is brimming above the town
Love keeps her appointments
Cinderella puts on her shoes
A pale stranger
Lying on a furnished bed in a furnished room
Looking at the crack in the ceilings
Watching the paper roses
guessing when will they bloom.
Cigarettes glow on the lawn
Glasses begin to tinkle
T.V. sets have been turned on
Like a glass of beer
The moon is brimming above the town
Love keeps her appointments
Cinderella puts on her shoes
A pale stranger
Lying on a furnished bed in a furnished room
Looking at the crack in the ceilings
Watching the paper roses
guessing when will they bloom.
Q1) The poem presents the "pale stranger" as
a) Unloved
b) Perturbed
c) Alienated
d) Isolated
Q2) The figure of speech in the first four lines is
a) Simile
b) Antithesis
c) Personification
d) Metaphor
e) Onomatopoeia
Q3) The paper roses symbolize
a) The gregarious but superficial atmosphere outside the furnished room
b) The hopes and aspirations which the stranger desperately clings to
c) The combined beauty of the night, of the moon and of love.
d) The need for the stranger to make things grow in his life.
Enough for today. I'll be back again with word power, grammasage (grammar+usage) and more critical reasoning.
Remember, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is not a historical proper noun but, "Vidyasagarism" is an abstract noun which you can imbibe.
Adios Amigo!
a) Unloved
b) Perturbed
c) Alienated
d) Isolated
Q2) The figure of speech in the first four lines is
a) Simile
b) Antithesis
c) Personification
d) Metaphor
e) Onomatopoeia
Q3) The paper roses symbolize
a) The gregarious but superficial atmosphere outside the furnished room
b) The hopes and aspirations which the stranger desperately clings to
c) The combined beauty of the night, of the moon and of love.
d) The need for the stranger to make things grow in his life.
Enough for today. I'll be back again with word power, grammasage (grammar+usage) and more critical reasoning.
Remember, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is not a historical proper noun but, "Vidyasagarism" is an abstract noun which you can imbibe.
Adios Amigo!
