CMAT Exam@ How to prepare for Verbal Ability section for CMAT 2013

This article kick starts the series of expert advices for CMAT 2013 with how to prepare for Language Comprehension and vocabulary by MBAUniverse.com Verbal Ability expert Prof. S. K. Agarwal

Noida, India (prHWY.com) February 4, 2013 - The second AICTE Common Management Admission Test or CMAT for MBA admissions 2013 is now just 20 days away. The test will be held all across India for five days starting Feb 21, 2013.
CMAT is the official exam for admissions to the University MBA programs in twelve states including UP, Maharashtra, MP, Gujarat, Haryana and Karnataka. Many B-schools offering PGDM programs will also be using the CMAT scores.
Read all about CMAT FAQS on this link: http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/6654/CMAT-February-2013
So if you are taking CMAT, now is the time to put finishing touches to your preparation strategies. To help you prepare, MBAUniverse.com has started a special series of expert articles on different sections of CMAT i.e. Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension, General Awareness.
This first article shares with you how to prepare for Language Comprehension and vocabulary by MBAUniverse.com Verbal Ability expert Prof. S. K. Agarwal. The Verbal Ability section is termed as Language Comprehension in CMAT.
According to AICTE, there will be 25 questions in Language Comprehension section out of total 100. This section will comprise of short parajumbles (comprising four- five sentences), Expression based (A statement/idiomatic expression is given and the right meaning of the same is to be selected from the followed options) as well as English language passage based questions. Unlike CAT, the reading comprehension passages followed by multiple choice questions are not very long. Other questions in this section are likely to be based on words or phrases. The vocabulary questions come from synonyms & antonyms, fill in the blanks, idioms, etc. Difficulty level is moderate.
This section will test not just English Comprehension, but it is comprehensive English test which includes the test of grammar, tenses, vocabulary, jumbled paragraphs, reading comprehension and many other topics. Let us proceed to learn some tips to crack the English comprehension Test, which is popularly known as Verbal Ability section in other MBA entrance exams.
Role of English Grammar in Language comprehension CMAT
You may find following types of questions in this section:
A. Correction of words which may or may not be grammatically incorrect: Four options are given to replace the bold words or parts of clauses. It can be a group of words, a phrase, an idiom with incorrect syntax, tense, verb or other grammatical error.
B. Writing a part of entire sentence: Incomplete sentences are given, you are required to pick out the most appropriate option to complete the same. These options are based on rules of grammar and tenses
C. Correction of clauses which may or may not be grammatically incorrect: Sentences with four sections marked 1 to 4 is given with an option no. 5 for no error. The candidate has to mark the option wherein error exists else option -5 has to be marked.
Topics to be covered in errors corrections-learning fundamentals.
Following topics should be covered to be able to go for correction of errors in language comprehension-
Grammar: Articles
Tenses: Indefinite Tenses

Grammar: nouns
Tenses: Continuous tenses

Grammar: pronouns
Tenses: Perfect tenses

Grammar: Adjectives/Adverbs
Tenses: perfect continuous tenses

Grammar: conjunctions
Tenses: conditional and unreal past

Grammar: Preposition & followed prepositions
Tenses: Reported speech

Grammar: Non-finites
Tenses: Usage-Few, a few, the few, little, a little, the little, some, any, each, every

Grammar: Misplaced and dangling modifiers
Tenses: Usage-Prefer, would rather, had better, No sooner, As soon as

Grammar: Usage in Verb-agreement with subject
Tenses: Usage-As well, as well as, neither-nor, either-or, else-or else, too-enough, many a,

Grammar: punctuation
Tenses: Fairly-rather; causative-have-get; also-too; also-as well; scarcely-when; hardly-when

I am left with a few days, so how to prepare?
Don't get depressed or panicky. You can do it. If you have a sound grammar base in English, it will become easier to follow the rules and put them to correct usage. Go to your 12th Standard English grammar book, it has hidden treasure and will unfold it when you study it. You may go for correct usage and common errors. They are important to be understood, before going to attempt the correction of errors in this module.
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