Topper’s Tips to Score Good Marks in English in SSC CHSL 2016

When it comes to preparing for a competitive examination, English Language has been one of those sections where students hesitate to attempt the questions. How to tackle this fear? Well, there is no shortcut to it. The only way is preparation. If you prepare thoroughly, English Language can be one of the most scoring sections.

The pattern of the SSC CHSL examination would be as follows:

SSC CHSL: Important points

• The Tier I will be an online test will comprise of multiple choice type questions.
• The test will comprise of four parts –I, II, III, IV. Part –I will comprises of General Intelligence, English Language (Basic Knowledge), Quantitative Aptitude (Basic Arithmetic Skill) and General Awareness.
• The test will be of total 200 marks with 25 questions from each section.
• A negative mark of 0.50 marks will be applicable to every incorrect response.
• The total time of the entire test is 75 minutes.
• Tier II will be a descriptive test which will carry 100 marks and the test duration will be of 1 hour.

SSC CHSL: How to prepare for English

  You cannot master in English in just one day. You need to devote some sincere efforts and then English seems easy.

 The following list of important topics need to be worked on a daily basis:

• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Error Spotting
• Fill in the blanks
• Idioms/ Phrases
• Spelling Mistakes
• Sentence Correction
• Cloze Test
• Reading Comprehension
• One Word Substitution

1. For Synonyms and Antonyms, go through different books and sources to find out new words. List them, find out their meanings, google their synonyms and antonyms and learn them. Note down those words in a notebook which will help you for future reference.


2. For topics like one word substitution and idioms and phrases, go through questions asked in previous papers. Practice questions from previous years and standard mock tests.


3. For topics like fill in the blanks, you need to practice variety of questions from different books. Before answering these questions, read the sentence carefully. Make sure the word you have used to fill in the blank fits in well with the sentence.


4. For error spotting questions and spelling mistakes questions, read the sentence carefully again and again. This will help you easily detect the errors. Do check the subject- verb agreement as it will help you to easily spot the error.


5. Read magazines, newspapers and articles. It will help you to improve your proficiency in English.


6. Make your grammar basics strong. This will make your foundation strong and make you easily solve all types of questions.

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