What Question 1 Is
Ten marks, one unseen argument.
↳ You cannot revise the passage, but you can practise the method.
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Reading Skills · Class 10 English · Words and Expressions
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Discursive, Defined
Stories tell; this kind of passage argues.
For every paragraph, ask what job it does in the argument.
↳ Read for the argument, not just the information.
The Method
Five moves, about twenty minutes.
↳ Sharp Questions Reward Accurate Checking.
What Question 2 Is
Short passage, dense numbers.
↳ The English is easier; the care must be greater.
Read the Frame
Four questions before any number.
↳ WHO-HOW MANY-WHEN-WHAT UNIT.
Reading a Table
Headings first, cells second.
Say it aloud: rows are clubs, columns are years, figures are members. Chess grew by 9; drama fell by 6.
↳ Name the rows and columns before you read a single cell.
📖 Smart notes
What you'll study, topic by topic
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The Discursive Passage: Reading an Argument
The first question of Section A is an unseen discursive passage of 400-450 words for 10 marks. This topic teaches a method for it: skim for the writer's view, let the questions direct your close reading, then find the ma…
- Question 1 of Section A is a discursive passage of 400 to 450 words worth 10 marks; with the factual passage of Question 2 it makes up the 2…
- A discursive passage argues a case: it moves from claim to reason to evidence to objection, so the useful question for each paragraph is wha…
- Skim first: read the opening and closing paragraphs and the first line of each middle paragraph until you can state the writer's view in one…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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The Factual Passage: Reading Reports, Tables and Charts
Question 2 of Section A is a 200-250-word factual passage with data: a table, a chart or survey figures, for 10 marks. This topic teaches how to read the frame of a study, read a table or chart by its headings, locate an…
- Question 2 of Section A is a case-based factual passage of 200 to 250 words with visual or verbal input such as statistical data, a chart or…
- Read the frame before the figures: who was surveyed, how many, when and where, which groups are compared, and whether each figure is a numbe…
- Read a table by naming its rows and columns and a chart by its title and axes; then find the largest and smallest values and the direction o…
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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90 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Read the paragraph: "Public libraries were once places where people only borrowed books. Today many run coding clubs, lend laptops and hold job-search workshops. For families without a computer at home, the library has become the one free place to get online." What is the main idea?
Intermediate
A Libraries have stopped lending books to their members
B Coding clubs are the most popular activity in libraries
C Libraries have become community centres for access to technology and skills
D Families without computers should buy one as soon as possible
Show answer & explanation
Libraries have become community centres for access to technology and skills
Every sentence supports the change in the library's role; coding clubs are only one example, and nothing says books are no longer lent.
Read the paragraph: "A single plastic bottle can take centuries to break down. Yet the real problem is not one bottle but habit: a city of a million people that buys one bottle each a day throws away a million bottles by nightfall." Which option states its main idea?
Intermediate
A Everyday buying habits, multiplied across a city, create the real plastic problem
B A plastic bottle takes centuries to break down
C Cities should ban the sale of all bottles immediately
D A million people live in most large cities
Show answer & explanation
Everyday buying habits, multiplied across a city, create the real plastic problem
The word 'Yet' turns from the single bottle to the habit, which is the point the figures are there to prove.
Read the paragraph: "Walk to school two days a week. You will arrive more alert, you will know your neighbourhood better, and the road outside the gate will be a little less crowded at eight o'clock." What is the writer's main purpose?
Beginner
A To describe the traffic outside a school gate
B To persuade readers to walk to school on some days
C To inform readers about the history of the neighbourhood
D To entertain readers with a story about a morning walk
Show answer & explanation
To persuade readers to walk to school on some days
The paragraph opens with a direct instruction and gives three benefits, which is the pattern of persuasion.
A question asks you to choose the most suitable title for a discursive passage. Which approach is the soundest?
Beginner
A Choose the title that repeats the most striking example in the passage
B Choose the title that uses the longest and hardest word in the passage
C Choose the title that covers the writer's whole argument, not one paragraph
D Choose the title that states your own opinion on the topic being discussed
Show answer & explanation
Choose the title that covers the writer's whole argument, not one paragraph
A title names the central idea; an example or a personal opinion covers too little or goes beyond the text.
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