RE-ORDER PARAGRAPHS

By Reading Regularly. Yes, by regular reading, you will improve your skill and hence the score. Reading is a combination skill comprising focus, speed, understanding vocabulary, and getting sense.Mantra is to get reading fluency first and then focus and then understanding. Ideally, you need to do it all at once but when practicing or learning the reading skill, learn it step-wise.

Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs; evaluating the quality and usefulness of texts; identifying a writer’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; identifying supporting points or examples; reading for overall organization and connections between pieces of information; reading for information to infer meanings or find relationships; identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or sequences of events; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words and following a logical or chronological sequence of events.

Scoring method:
1 Each pair of correct adjacent textboxes
0 Minimum score

Tips & techniques:

Search for heading/topic with major idea of the paragraph to be formed by re-ordering. It should be first sentence like a topic sentence, a stand alone – Independent sentence that is not dependent on any other sentences given there.
Check Proper Nouns-Common nouns-Pronoun-Articles Usage-Time Phrases order to re-order the sentences.
Focus on pronouns he, she, him, her, they, them, these, those, etc… as these sentences will never come in first.Paragraphs that contain pronouns such as he, she, it, they, them are probably referring to something mentioned in an earlier paragraph.
Also look for contradict phrases like (however, but, although) and addition phrases like (Also, moreover, furthermore, besides.. etc), they could never be first and are generally related which could easily be found. Try finding sentence before it.
Look for any obvious clues to the logical order or chronology of events, for example, sequencing words such as first, second, lastly, finally, next, then, after, and so on.

Look for linking words and structures in the other sentences. look for signal words like However or In addition, or referencing pronouns replacing nouns already mentioned such as he or it, or demonstratives such as this or these. Think about article usage (a for first mention. the afterwards).

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