Paragraph Summary, Odd Sentence & Completion
✨ Login to trackThree close cousins of reading comprehension, asked in banking mains and management exams: pick the best summary of a paragraph, spot the sentence that breaks a theme, or choose the line that completes it. All three reward the same habit — tracking the paragraph's main idea and scope instead of its vocabulary.
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3 exam-level questions worked step by step.
36 questions — untimed practice or a timed test with analysis.
Track record in the exam
Test difficulty mix (36 questions)
Question patterns exams keep repeating
Taken from previous-year papers. If a pattern is marked "very common", expect to see it in your exam.
Best summary of the paragraph
very commonA short paragraph followed by four one-line summaries; the stem asks for the main idea or central thought.
State the main idea in your own words first.
Kill narrow, broad and distorted options.
Paragraph: bus routes redrawn by demand, frequency doubled on busy corridors. Which option best captures it?
'Buses that follow demand put more service where people wait' — the takeaway. Options about fares or metro lines are out of scope.
Odd sentence out
commonFive sentences, mostly one theme; the stem asks which one does not belong.
Name the theme as a job in 3 words.
Flag the sentence doing a different job despite shared words.
Four sentences on UPI's growth at street shops; one on smartphone prices falling.
The price line serves hardware, not payments — odd one out, though it shares the digital theme.
Paragraph completion (closer)
commonA paragraph stops short and four candidate closers are offered.
Predict the landing in your own words.
Pick the closer that continues the last sentence's direction.
Para on EV subsidy success that turns with 'Yet charging points remain rare outside metros.'
'Until charging spreads, the subsidy helps only some buyers' resolves the turn.
Best title
commonThe stem asks for the most appropriate title.
Topic + angle in 6–10 words.
Reject titles covering only one example or promising a bigger story.
Paragraph on Delhi's bus depots going electric and drivers retraining.
'Delhi's electric bus shift — and its drivers' beats the broad 'Future of transport'.
Scope-shift intruder
commonIn odd-sentence sets where every option mentions the theme's subject but one changes level (national programme vs one person's story).
Fix the paragraph's level (policy, business, personal).
Pick the sentence at a different level.
Four lines on a vaccination drive's logistics; one on vaccine makers' record profits.
The profit line is business scope inside a logistics paragraph — odd one.
Contrast resolution closer
occasionalThe paragraph's last sentence turns with but / however / yet.
Resolve the second side of the turn, not the first.
Reject options that ignore the turn.
'…sales doubled on subsidies, yet charging points remain rare outside metros.'
The closer must land on the charging gap, not on more sales.