Tips and Strategies

• Aspiring applicants can undertake an English language training program which will emphasize on communication using all 4 skills as well as provide integrated knowledge pertaining to reading, listening, writing and speaking.
• In order to improve your reading skills you can depend on internet or consider reading lot of books and even newspapers
• While reading scan for information and highlight the key points which are ideally 5 W’s and 1 H i.e. who, what, why, where, when and how. Practice this frequently to increase your speed and become habitual of this exercise
• Increase your diction by learning new words every day and make an attempt at sentence formation using the new learned words
• Try to time yourself using a clock watch. Instead of reading the entire passage with concentration try to skim through the entire passage looking for essential facts
• Build a habit of drawing conclusions and making inferences depending upon the meaning of the passage as a whole
• In order to enhance the listening skills you can watch movies and television
• Additionally, it is also a great idea to listen frequently to a wide spectrum of different types of material in numerous subject areas. Different websites such as www.npr.org and www.bbc.co.uk/radio will help you to grow accustomed to listening to varied accents
• Practice pronunciation, focusing on word stress, pauses and intonation patterns
• Work extensively on tenses so as to ensure correct sentence formation
• Learn to write in an organized and coherent manner by identifying one core idea and other points to support that idea before beginning with the essay
• Study the principles of spelling, punctuation, and layout