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for Bank and SSC Exams
DESCRIPTIVE ENGLISH
Content Contribution : Amar Ujala Education Books Authors Panel
with Manisha Shukla
Amar Ujala Publications Ltd.
Published by Amar Ujala Publications Ltd.
and printed at C-21, Sector 59, Noida - 201301 (U.P.)
First Edition : 2015
ISBN : 978-93-82948-93-3
Price : ` 60/
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CONTENT
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INTRODUCTION
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COMPREHENSION TEST
The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
provides meaning of the word comprehension
which is an exercise aimed at improving or
testing ones understanding of a language. So,
the comprehension test is included in the
scheme of the examination to test candidates
capacity to understand what is said or implied
in the passage.
(Specific Information)
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IMPORTANT TIPS
1. The most important way to really
understand what you are reading is to
get involved with the passage.
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IMPORTANT FACT
It is generally seen that the passages
asked in SBI & Associate Banks
Probationary Officers Exams and other
Bank P.O. Exams are related to financial
sector, banking sectors, Information
Technology etc. The passages are no
longer story or event based that are
easily comprehensible. Today it is a
different thing. Candidates are therefore,
advised to study Business Standard, The
Economic Times, etc to focus on economy
based passages. Umarujala Publication
has introduced this approach in under
title improve Your Comprehension in
which you get passage based on economy
with answers and explanations. It will
be proved useful in the preparation of
this section.
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PRACTICE SET-1
FOR BANK & SSC EXAM
Answer
(i)
Examination Hall
Date....................
My dear M,
I have just received your letter and hasten
to reply it. I am much pleased to know that in
the Selection Test of your school, you have
fared very well by securing high first division
and second position in your school. It is very
heartening to learn that in Mathematics, you
got 100 percent marks and in Accountancy
and English over eighty five percent. Only in
Economics and Commerce theory papers, you
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Answer
(i) Examination Day
Examination day decides the future of a
students life. It is a vitally important day for
her. On this day her whole years labour and
effort bears fruit. But these days are few and
far between. The examination is meant to test
the knowledge of the student what she has
learnt during the year. But this system of
examination is faulty as the students fate will
be decided within a short span of three hours.
Therefore, the student has to prepare in such
a way that she should be able to give answers
from her memory in a small period of time.
God has made our brain with a wonderful
mechanism which is able to store and then to
reproduce knowledge that she has been
acquiring during the whole year. No computer
can compete with the human brain in memory.