English Sessions

Reading Ability

• RC – Process & Skill

  How to approach RCs in general and skills required to comprehend the passages. Role of vocabulary in passages. Types of questions based on passages in SAT.

• RC- Types of passages

  How to approach Science, social science, literature and history-based passages Understanding these passages and importance of main idea.

• Question types-1

  How to find the main idea & purpose of the passage? Determine the main or most likely purpose of a text or of a particular part of a text (typically, one or more paragraphs).

• Question Types-2

  Cite the textual evidence that best supports a given claim or point. Reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text Identify information and ideas explicitly stated in text. Vocabulary Tricks such as ‘root method, association, etc’. Meaning of word/phrase as used in the passage

• Question Types-3

  Focus on the overall structure of a text and on the relationship between a particular part of a text and the whole text & the overall structure of a text. Approach to solve paired passages

• Literary & Rhetorical devices and Rearrangement

  Attitude, & writing style of the author. Devices used by the author. Best placement of the given lines in the passage.

• RC – Practice-1

  Reinforce the learning, and discussion on strategy

• RC – Practice-2

  Reinforce the learning

• Reading – Practice test -1

  Discussion & doubts and reinforcing the learning- Based on SAT official test - 6

• Reading – Practice test -2

  Discussion & doubts and reinforcing the learning - Based on SAT official test - 7

Writing Ability

• English Conventions-1

  Parts of speech, how to identify them. How same word can be used as different part of speech, nouns, pronouns & their usages, subject – pronoun agreement

• English Conventions-2

  Remaining parts of speech and their usages. Brief on tenses & subject – verb agreement

• English Conventions-3

  Modifiers, parallelism, redundancy & Diction

• English Conventions-4

  Punctuation, voice, Comma- Splice, Comma- Sandwich, clauses & Phrases & idiomatic usages

• Appropriate word & usages

  Diction, selecting an appropriate word tricks & Question on standard English convention to reinforce learning

• Organization & Effective language

  Revise text as necessary to ensure consistency of style and tone within a text or to improve the match of style and tone to purpose. Use various sentence structures to accomplish needed rhetorical purposes

• Critical reasoning – Fundamentals

  Facts, assumption, inference, strengthen or weaken the conclusion and Fallacies

• Finding the appropriate line

  A brief on different question types & approaches to solve them and finding the appropriate line to complete the paragraph in a meaningful way.

• Writing & Language Practice -1

  Discussion & doubts and reinforcing the learning - Based on SAT official test - 6

• Writing & Language Practice -2

  Discussion & doubts and reinforcing the learning - Based on SAT official test - 7