How to Prepare for Verbal Ability in IPMAT 2020

Preparing for Verbal ability in IPMAT 2020 means that it is very important to strategize a plan that works the best. With proper preparation, technique candidates can score well in the Verbal ability section of IPMAT 2020.

Preparation majorly includes the following-

Building a schedule
Practicing mock tests and previous year question papers
Investing in good and reliable study material, etc.
It is important to analyze the tests taken, recognize the weak areas and work towards them.

To prepare for the Verbal Ability section in IPMAT 2020 is it's very important to understand the structure of the exam

Section	Questions	Question type	marks
Verbal Ability	40	Multiple choice questions	40

Verbal Ability for IPMAT consists of 40 questions overall
10-12 questions earmarked for Reading Comprehension.
The rest of the questions are a mix of –fill the blanks, odd one out, synonyms, antonyms, parajumbles, phrase replacement (that tests you on Grammar), idioms and phrases, and word usage.
Every correct question fetches 4 marks and incorrect question attracts a penalty of 1 mark
Attempting 20-22 questions out of 28-30 questions on these topics should not take you more than 15-20 minutes. Remember: the accuracy level on these topics is relatively higher for an aspirant thus start your preparation for Verbal Ability for IPMAT2020 right away to pocket these marks.

IPMAT 2020 Verbal Ability: Preparation Tips

For this part, it is necessary to read as much as possible.
Reading the newspaper and learning new words will prove to be beneficial.
Practicing comprehension passages will increase your answering speed.
Solve the previous year’s question papers.
Take online mock tests and check your performance.
Try practicing from previous years test papers to be familiar with kind of questions asked in the exam.

IPMAT 2020 Verbal Ability Syllabus

Before any candidate start preparing it is of great significance that the candidate is well versed with exam syllabus.

Sub-Topics

Sentence completion

Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms, and Phrases

Comprehension of passages

Proper Usage of Words

Vocabulary

Grammar

Fill in the Blanks

Vocabulary

Questions based on vocabulary/usage are a 100% must. Just as in General Awareness section in various tests, one either knows the answer or don’t. There is very little room for being confused and it takes just seconds to figure them out (after all you don’t have to read an entire passage to answer the questions!).
We seriously advise you to read newspapers and note down and learn the recurring words. Or else you can use the ‘vocab ninja’ tool in your aspiration.ai account. We have tried to capture the high frequency words that you would encounter in Verbal Ability for IPMAT and other competitive exams.

Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms, and Phrases

The questions on Idioms and phrases test you on usage. You might be asked to guess the context of the idioms used in questions, which should be easy, if you have good reading habits.
You need to put a little effort on covering questions on commonly used phrases, which are bit tricky. Though they require you to have knowledge of prepositions, but the questions are mostly based on commonly used phrasal verbs.

Grammar

For grammar, you are not tested beyond the common grammar topics such as- parts of speech, pronoun cases, subject verb agreement, tense, modifiers, parallelism etc.
Just a thorough run-through the topic is required and you can make the list of rules that are covered in these topics and keep on revising the same.

Proper Usage of Words

Para jumble based questions require you to zero-in on the most logical order for the given statements.
You can refer to the CL’s Verbal Ability for IPMAT funda book, to get the essence of the common-sense based rules that could help you eliminate the wrong answer options and reach the correct one.

Note: It is advisable that you work on eliminating the answer options by applying rules and NOT proving the answer option sequence that you feel makes sense to you.