10 Things I Used To Hate About English

Comprehensions

Comprehensions can be boring and rather tricky at times.  Although teachers maintain that these Reading Studies are beneficial for our ability to reason and to understand extracts, we all know that these ‘educational comprehensions’  are time-consuming and are just set up to confuse us and to purposely trick us.  To conquer these reading study demons, be sure to remember the following tips:  

1. Always read the questions regarding the comprehension                  before  reading the actual piece of writing.  

2. After you have read the questions, go through the comprehension thoroughly, making sure you understand everything.  Underline anything you don’t completely understand, so you can come back to it later if its important.  Small things that you don’t understand should become clear when read in the sense of the whole sentence/paragraph.

3. Read the comprehension again if you are not entirely certain of what’s going on.

4.  Go back to the questions when you’re confident with the passage.  Don’t waste your time on questions that you aren’t sure about – you can always go back to them when you’ve completed the ones you are sure about.

5. Answer the questions with full sentences, ensuring that you’ve made your thoughts and ideas clear.

Hopefully these tips will help you to get brilliant marks for your comprehensions, without you throwing tantrums, screaming, shouting, kicking, punching or pulling out your own hair in frustration.

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