Decoding Reading Comprehension: How to Prepare RC for CAT, XAT, SNAP & GMAT
About this ebook
• Important and essential literary and linguistic definitions, rules, examples relevant to examinations like CAT (Common Admission Test) and GMAT (General Management Aptitude Test) are provided with examples wherever possible. Where needed, hints are given as to the use of a rule to avoid common mistakes,
• A perfect blend of Handbook and textbook: For the first time well written chapters on important topics with suitable examples, illustrations, figures and tables on essential topics are given in this book.
• The author has taken the pain to fill important knowledge-gaps so as to build your fundamental concepts and its application. In that sense various exercises are graded as “Level of Competence - I, II and III” to give you insight into the application of concepts.
• The emphasis has been placed on reasoning in the sense that facts and logic act as interlocked themes for understanding. Facts play an important role in guiding logic.
• Each topic has been treated by way of highlighting central idea of a passage in terms of validity of an application of rule or concept.
• In chapters on argumentation, identifying theme, or critical reasoning I have been guided by my twenty-five years of coaching experience and my own success at CAT examination to secure my entry into Indian Institute of Management Indore.
• The book can be used as a perfect TEXTBOOK-CUM-PRACTICE BOOK.
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About the author
Dr. Hemant Shrivastava is a double postgraduate with an MBA and a Fellowship from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore). He has been an accomplished CAT Coach for the last twenty-five years and a Corporate trainer to MAHARATNA PSUs and blue-chip private sector companies. He has trained thousands of students to IIMs, and other top B Schools. He is also a celebrated Soft-skill and personality development expert having trained MBA aspirants, job aspirants and working executives in entry and middle level.
He is a prolific writer of research papers and Case-Studies that have been published in national and international journals and are taught in B-schools. He has been an avid philanthropist spearheading an environmental initiative and mental health since 2013.
