How To Read Newspaper for Competition Exams – Tips
Reading
newspaper is one of the most important parts of the preparations for any
competition examination. In every exam, there
is section of current affairs and general knowledge. You can score good marks
in current affairs if you read newspapers and magazines regularly. It is equally important for interviews.
Reading
newspaper makes you more confidence as newspaper reading allows you to develop
argumentative skills.
Usually
Newspapers are thick in size and it is not possible to read the whole newspaper
in a one to two hours. It is not good to
invest your half of the day in reading newspaper. So it is up to you to decide which
contents you should read regularly for your preparations for competition exam.
You
should read at least these topics in detail, because most of the current
affairs questions are based on only from these sections.
What to Read
o
Indian and world economy
o
Banking and finance
o
Environment and Science
o
International news
o
Editorial pages (you can left it for
banking exams, but will helpful for interviews)
o
Sports
Topics
like current political situations, politicians’ fights, local news, news of bollywood,
accidents, murders, theft usually are of no use, so it is better to avoid this
news.
How to Read
While
reading newspaper, you should keep your pen ready and a notebook. You should mark the difficult words coming in
news. You can highlight important news articles and note down it in your
notebook.
At
the end of the newspaper you should note down the meaning of the words which
you are seeing for first time. You should discuss about news to your friends,
it will help you to understand the topic better.
Read
the Editorial articles watchfully. An
editorial article is gives a good balanced perspective of the topic. These
contain good English and can help you in improving your English writing skills
and vocabulary.
Financial
/ banking News section contains business news affecting economy, monetary
policies, stock markets, new guidelines issued by regulators (e.g. RBI,
SEBI). This section is of more important
for students who are looking for jobs in banks, RBI and financial markets.
Read
all other section of news paper carefully because these days sports section has
become very important.
Therefore,
you should start reading from today itself.
Read only the relevant items which will help you in scoring better
rating in your exams.
I
will suggest you to read The Hindu and The Indian Express news papers as these
contain good material with excellent research work.
Beside
this you should read some good websites daily, as these websites do a lot of
work for their readers. One of the good website is gktoday and Current Affairs-Gk you can
bookmark these sites.
Best wishes
