How to Read Newspaper Effectively for SSC exam?

How to read newspaper effectively

In this article i am going to tell you how to read newspaper for SSC exam and also other banking exams . All serious aspirants of ssc and other government exams All the serious aspirants know how important it is to read the newspaper. Because in every government exam, current affairs plays a very unique and important role. so let's start 🙂

In government job exams, at all three stages (Preliminary, Mains or Interview) questions are asked from current affairs. So, Newspapers are considered as the best sources for the fodder material. Reading Newspaper will also improve your command on writing skills. Read this article to learn How to Read Newspaper Effectively for SSC & Banking Exams to improve your score.

But, before starting on tips to Read Newspaper Effectively for SSC, go through the previous year question papers of the exam for which you are appearing. This will give you the idea about the way questions are asked directly and indirectly.

Read Newspaper Effectively for SSC 

 Introduction

 

“newspaper is as important as food to your body"

• Newspaper reading mainly helps a lot in dealing with two sections for the exams which are General Awareness and English Language.
• In this sense, reading the newspaper becomes important for all competitive exam aspirants. While you appreciate the importance of newspaper reading, I’m sure most of you have wondered, How to Read Newspaper Effectively? Which newspaper to read? How much time to devote to newspaper reading? And so on.
• The Hindu is considered as the best one among all available newspaper.
• The Hindu Business and Economic Times Newspapers are also very important as they cover the Banking, Insurance, Finance and Economy Sector news primarily which is the main part of the Banking Examination.
• Apart from it, you can follow Indian Express and Times of India newspapers for your exam preparation.

For Best Possible Results, Newspaper Must Have The Following Points:

• less useless things : like bhai ne bhai ko goli mari and all . if you have intrest in these type of news read it for your interest not for  ur exam preparation.
• Comprehensiveness: Most of the articles published in the paper should be relevant from the point of view of exams. This will save time while preparing for the General Awareness. 

• Standard English: The articles of the newspaper must follow Standard English. This will help a lot in working upon the English section.
• Good Coverage: The newspaper should have good coverage of the relevant topics.
• News should make sense: While reading a newspaper, you need to keep in mind that not every news article is important from the point of view of an examination. You need to choose the relevant ones. Well, if you are a Hindu reader, you will find most of the articles are very much necessary for aspirants.
• Saves the time to selected topics: The newspaper is very comprehensive for bank exams and you are spared the trouble of selecting the important and relevant topics from the not so relevant and important ones.

How to Read Newspaper Effectively for SSC & Banking Exams.

some useful tips

Read with good approach: Just do not go through the lines, try to develop an approach regarding the article.

Prepare Handy notes of Current Affairs, Vocabulary and Important Facts: Make a separate notebook for English and note down the important and tough vocabulary, idioms and phrases. Similarly, maintain another notebook for General Awareness.Write down the points of current affairs, such as sports news in one part of the notebook and finance related news in another part of the notebook. It will help a lot while revising the things.

Once you develop the habit of reading newspaper on daily basis your eyes will feel more comfortable with the flow of the reading and you can easily identify the mistakes in case of any. It will help a lot in verbal section as well. To improve this particular section, read the Editorial section and note down the new words daily to improve your Vocabulary. Also, observe the Idioms and Phrases and sentence making to learn the new phrases and usage of English.

For General Awareness do not go deep into any issue only try to find the fact. Special focus should be on Economy and Business page. Moreover, try to make a note in one sentence and revise it every day at least half an hour.

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