The word ‘comprehension’ means to fully understand the text using one’s intellect. A comprehension passage is a text set for testing the reader’s ability to comprehend (understand) the meaning being implied by the text and the theme of that particular passage.
Questions based on a passage generally appear as a chronological relationship with the passage. Usually the first question has the answer in the initial paragraphs and so on but if the answers are inferential then the matter might have to be collected from various paragraphs and for this, one needs to be familiar with the entire passage.
Scoring maximum marks in comprehension passages is a skill which can be mastered by constant practice. Before answering the question, a student must read the passage carefully and then try to find the answer from the passage itself by focusing mainly on what is required in the answer. Answers must be written in one’s own language and not copied verbatim from the text.
Types of Comprehension Passage
- Factual Passages: As the name suggests, factual passages give some facts, be it historical or about the achievements of a particular person. They can also provide instructions. They can be reports or even descriptions of something.
- Discursive Passages: These kinds of passages involve an opinion. They have a logical flow and are argumentative in nature.
- Literary Passages: These are the extracts from a literary piece.
Reading Comprehension
- Unseen Passage: A Purpose in Life
- Unseen Passage: Advertising
- Unseen Passage: Ancient Tree Practices
- Unseen Passage: Artificial Glaciers
- Unseen Passage: Challenges of Film Industry
- Unseen Passage: Choices We Make
- Unseen Passage: Classes Inside Railway Carriage
- Unseen Passage: Coffee
- Unseen Passage: Communication Skills
- Unseen Passage: Concentration
- Unseen Passage: Conservation Dogs
- Unseen Passage: Convocation Address by C. V. Raman
- Unseen Passage: Dal Lake
- Unseen Passage: Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro
- Unseen Passage: Evelyn Glennie
- Unseen Passage: Even a Dead Snake Can Be of Use
- Unseen Passage: Extraction And Purification Of Drinking Water
- Unseen Passage: Failing is Educational
- Unseen Passage: Falling Down
- Unseen Passage: Family and Decision Making
- Unseen Passage: Gandhiji as a Fund Raiser
- Unseen Passage: Generation Gap
- Unseen Passage: Gift
- Unseen Passage: Globalization
- Unseen Passage: Good Health
- Unseen Passage: I was Born
- Unseen Passage: Invention of Computers
- Unseen Passage: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Unseen Passage: Kangaroo
- Unseen Passage: Kausani
- Unseen Passage: Keep Your Watch Accurate
- Unseen Passage: Kiwi Fruit
- Unseen Passage: Learning
- Unseen Passage: Little Girl and the Pine Tree
- Unseen Passage: Long Summer Breaks
- Unseen Passage: Maggie, Golden Doodle
- Unseen Passage: Magnificent Cats
- Unseen Passage: Medical Tourism
- Unseen Passage: Mind Your Thoughts
- Unseen Passage: Mirrors
- Unseen Passage: Money
- Unseen Passage: Mt. Everest
- Unseen Passage: Music
- Unseen Passage: Newspaper
- Unseen Passage: One Would Imagine
- Unseen Passage: Orangutans
- Unseen Passage: Overconfidence
- Unseen Passage: Overpowering Prey
- Unseen Passage: Oxygen for Breathing
- Unseen Passage: Press – A Pillar of Democracy
- Unseen Passage: Ramos-Horta
- Unseen Passage: Rice
- Unseen Passage: River Ganga
- Unseen Passage: Sacred Trees
- Unseen Passage: Sahara Desert
- Unseen Passage: Sifting through the Sands of Time
- Unseen Passage: Somnathpur Temple
- Unseen Passage: Sparrow
- Unseen Passage: Subhash Chandra Bose
- Unseen Passage: Success in Life
- Unseen Passage: Sustainable Tourism
- Unseen Passage: The Camera Can Lie
- Unseen Passage: The Face of Village India
- Unseen Passage: The Power of Thoughts
- Unseen Passage: The Road to Success
- Unseen Passage: Tree Worshiping
- Unseen Passage: Urge to Go to the West
- Unseen Passage: Walt Disney
- Unseen Passage: White Tiger
- Unseen Passage: Youngster Quit Facebook