To get good grades in English in any competitive test format speed is a must. But also required is comprehension power - the ability to understand accurately what is being said. To get selected you need to be able to read fast and at the same time understand, make a clear picture in your mind, what is being said. The trick is to read it all once and only once.

To build speed and comprehension you shall find here a few good articles for you to practice. If you are just starting out don't time yourself yet. Try to understand what is being said. Take your time. But slowly start to note the time you require to read a passage. At times you will find some very short articles here. These are meant to test your speed and I will also make a note of the time it took me to read these - your time should be similar.

In these practice articles you will find that certain words are given in bold while certain words or lines are underlined. You should know the definition of the words given in bold. The word/line underlined - spend a bit extra time on this portion. I underlined it because I found it interesting - either the language used or the way it was used.

Also, please note that all the articles that are given here are for practice purpose only and are rarely written by me. All I do is find a good article, edit it a little bit, maybe cut out a few lines here and there and then post it here. If you want to read the original article, which at times may also include multimedia like additional videos or photos, you will find a link to the original webpage at the start and the end of the practice article. Also, information regarding the original article like its author, date of publishing, source, original title etc can be accessed at the end of the practice article.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

English Comprehension - Moderate to Advanced level.

Practice for P.O. exams.

In addition, it cites the deposition of Ram Adhar, the man who was mugged by the four convicts in the same bus before the convicts picked up the gang-rape victim and her friend from Munirka. “The incident belies the claim of the convicts that they had clean antecedents,” it reads, adding that the presumption of innocence also fails as they have now been convicted.
Quoting a previous judgment on the Rarest of Rare Test (R-R Test), the order reads that the R-R Test depends on the perception of the society and was not judge-centric. The arguments therefore for death penalty i.e. the aggravating circumstances included that the offence has been committed in an extremely brutal, grotesque and dastardly manner and aroused the intense indignation of society. Further, the act was a demonstration of exceptional depravity and extreme brutality with extreme misery being inflicted on the victim before her death and that it had a grave impact on social order which nullified the mitigating circumstances reasoned by the lawyers of the convicts.
Finally in upholding that the case fell into the category of rarest of rare, he recounted the fact that the entire intestine of the victim was perforated, splayed and cut open. The convicts pulled out her internal organs with their bare hands and rods and caused her irreparable injuries, which shows “extreme mental perversion not worthy of human condonation.” The order further elaborates on the bite marks found on various parts of the victim’s body to shows that the brutality of the crime called for extreme penalty. While adding that the increasing trend of crimes against women could only be curbed when the society knows that there will be no tolerance of such crimes and especially in cases of brutality as in this case, he held that the criminal justice system must instill confidence in the people, especially women. Finally, he held that the ghastly act classified as rare of rarest case for which the convicts be punished under Section 302 to be “hanged by neck until they are dead.”


The following is an excerpt from "Why the Delhi gangrape convicts were given the death penalty" an article written by Shonali Ghosal which appeared in Tehelka.


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