Reading Comprehension

Understanding Paragraphs

1. Topic sentence - the sentence which summarizes the context
2. Sequence of Events - the continuity of events
3. Relativity of Context
4. Creating Inferences - idea or adding possible ending

Point of Elimination - process of eliminating irrelevant choices

Verbal Analogy – shows relationship within words

Synonym

Antonyms

Worker to Tool

Degree

Sequence

Action-Situation

Purpose

Classification

Characterization

Object-Action Relationship

Cause and Effect

Part to Whole

Pointers to Identifying Errors

1. Parts of speech
2. Punctuation marks (;,.,",',!)
3. Voice of Verb (passive, active)
4. Subject Verb Agreement 
5. Spelling
6. Tense (past, present, future, etc.)
7. Contradictions
8. Antecedents
9. Degree of comparisons (positive, comparative, superlative)
10. D-Verbs (do, does, did)
11. Conditional sentence
12. Moods

Anagrams

words or phrases whose letters are reorganized to form another words or phrases, best anagrams are those which letters are rearranged somehow share some relationships to the original phrase or word