Competition is not a rare concept in modern man’s life. We can experience it in every aspects of life with its maximum intensity. The world is moving in a fast paced that it is necessary for human to meet these challenges offered at every level for our existence. If you are not able to satisfy those demands the option filled world will replace you with somebody capable for that. Why we have to face these severe competitions? Reasons are a lot, most convincing answer may be people are in search of the best options. Everybody needs the finest ones and the demand for the desirable ones creates competition. Today the animosity is necessary to keep a balanced state and so the man needs to improve their qualities to meet such challenges.

The education and professional sectors are experiencing competition by all means. Today the competition does not mean scoring the top grade in the final exams, the real competition is at the entry level of a particular course or program. Competition is there in meeting the cutoffs and securing a seat in the desired stream.

The professionals are also facing the cutoff challenges. As the supply of one of the most important assets, manpower, exceeds the demand in our country, it is necessary to put a screening stage to find the most desirable one. The job seekers forced to meet some criteria and needed to give some tests in order to prove their employability. This is the main reason behind the concept of entrance examinations and competitive exams.

When we look into the format of the competitive examinations, majority of those shares a common format. Many of them are testing not only the knowledge part of the candidates but also the aptitude level of the applicants. These tests include logical and reasoning part, quantitative and numerical, Data interpretation and sufficiency, analytical and comprehension etc. The verbal and comprehension part is common in most of the academic as well as the professional entrance examinations. The candidates can easily score marks in this sessions without much efforts.

Comprehension!!!!

Everybody knows what are comprehension passages? The world literally means understanding the passage. The candidates are given passages to read and there will be questions based on that. The passage may constitute one paragraph or it can be two or three pages long. We are used with this session from the school level itself and so we have a good practice over this. Since you are provided with answers and you need to find it out from the given readings, it is one of the simple ways to score the marks. So what is the specialty of this session in the competitive examinations?  In these exams by this part your speed of reading is evaluated, which is one of the basic objective of the whole exam. So the underlying fact to score in this section and thus the exam is to improve your speed of reading.

The speed of reading not only helps you in the competitive examinations but also in succeeding the competitive world also. In this fast moving life the information are gathered in a high frequency manner and based on these gathering a large amount of transformation happening around us. There are many options available to people for getting these information and it is crucial for the modern life to update them with these information. As we are living in the limited time frame we don’t have much time to spend on reading and analyzing this information. So we should focus to improve our speed in reading without altering our retention and understanding capabilities. Here are some ways to increase your speed of reading with reading efficiency, productivity and evaluating abilities of an individual.

Grasp the Content

From the early day itself, when we start reading, we are used to go word by word. May be that would be abetter way for a fresher. We have to understand each word and by focusing on the words we continue our reading, it become a habit of us even in the later life. This way of approach will actually lessen your speed of reading because your primary focus is on the words rather than the content, the overall outline of the story. If you want to improve your reading speed you have to start reading in a large mass. You have to concentrate on the core of the writings and grasp it while reading rather than going with the words.

Avoid Pronouncing

There is another common habit among people is while reading they shows a tendency to pronounce each word. This is yet another reason cause to reduce your reading speed and it also blocks you to understand the essence of the passages. Remember when you are reading some content, focusing on the reading part only, not in any words and their roots. You have to learn to see the complete picture of the writing rather than focusing on the minutes.

Avoid Multitasking

We understand the fact that multitasking is an important concept in this competitive world and it becomeone of the greatest asset for one to take advantage in the job market. But you have to keep aside your ability to performing more than one thing simultaneously while reading. If you are doing any other works while reading you can’t concentrate completely on your reading part and it finally slows your reading. You have to grasp the whole knowledge within a short time and so your concentration should be on the reading part.

Some other ways to improve your reading habit is, if you are reading for a long time, take small breaks. This will improve your concentration part and thereby you will able to retain those contents. Before starting your reading you have to believe that the topic is interesting to you and you want to know more about this. This is a psychological approach of reading, if you think it is not meant for you can’t finish your reading even if you take a long time also. So keep a positive approach towards reading content and topics.

These are some ways to pick up your reading pace. The speed reading help you to have enough time for analyzing the content and this help you to take a productive and dependant decision making. Thus for a fast reader the comprehension part is not yet a time eating part and one can easily take up the advantage of this session. We are in a fast pace world and hence we have to speed up our every action…