Its a renowned fact that English is a must thing to know these days, whether you are a student, businessman, housewife or even a call centre employee, it’s a necessity that you know this language. Although it’s important for one and all in these times but for the students, who prepare for various competitions and entrances it’s a requirement of an utmost importance. more than often it happens this way , that the graduates preparing for various competitions think they know English , and they are as good in it as they are in their mother tongue, because they speak English slang , while their college days all the time and here’s where they make the first mistake. The English that we speak , in our daily lives can’t even be compared to the English that is required to crack any competitive examination, like cracking for IIM’s , and other MBA entrances.
For these exams, it is very necessary that you a tight grip at vocabulary, so if you are thinking of cracking any MBA entrance examination, then you should go through this article further, this would help you improve your English only within few days that would largely help you in cracking your exam. The first thing you should start with, should be reading. All the magazines that you always put aside just after flipping through few pages and going over glossy pictures, now is the time that you do a little more than that. Read as much as you can. It can be anything of your interest, but reading randomly wouldn’t help, while reading always keep a pencil in your hand and mark the hard words that you don’t know the meaning of, and those words which you know but you find hard to recall their meaning. If you will do this continuously for few days you will find yourself with many words, out of these, interestingly you will find that many of them would be similar. Now what you are supposed to do, when you have found these similar words is, create “roots”. “Roots” will be those words which would sound kind of similar, and when you will memorise them simultaneously, it would become quite easy to recall them at the time of examination. For instance, the words “cling” and “cliff”, sound similar cliff means a high steep face of rock, while cling means to attach to, this way whenever you will come across the word cliff or cling you would automatically remember the other, hence this way you learn two words each time and recalling them becomes even easier. When we talk of reading , it’s ok for starters , who are are not use to to reading , that they pick up with anything , that they get their hands on, but for those who are seriously looking forward to crack the exam, its very necessary that they read the editorial page of the news paper. As a tip, its suggested that “THE HINDU“, by far, produces best editorial page as it consists of just information without unnecessary details. Also one should go for the “e-paper”, as its online, it now adds an edge to your preparation, because if you are use to reading on your computer screen , your reading pace would improve which would help you during your exam, this is especially important when the CAT has become online exam, and others are soon to follow the same. It is very important that you have a good reading pace, because how you perform in exam is a latter thing, first of all its important how much you attempt it, and it would be only possible when your reading pace would be good enough. For this , after you get yourself use to , to reading, you should set time limits for yourself. Set up a timer , and try to finish reading in that particular time. This will highly help you improve your reading.
The technology has made learning even more easier than ever, and students preparing for MBA should make the most out of it. Apart from reading the online newspapers, one should also use DVD’s and CD’S to improve the pronunciations and understanding of English. There are various English tests available online that keeps student updated about the status of their preparation by which they get to know where they stand. One of the sites that may prove useful for students is magportal.com. And for newspaper you can refer to nytimes.com, TOI e-paper
A lot more can be done to improve this language, besides the few tips given above, but most importantly it is necessary that you develop an interest for the language. As without interest it is almost impossible to learn anything, no matter how desperately you want to learn it.
keep up this good work. thank you.
Thanks alot for such a interesting n purposeful information…it helpd alot in setting n focussing my mind…great job.thank u