LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy 2022- Important Tips

LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy – The LIC HFL 2022 Notification has been published on LIC’s official website. In this blog, we’ll be providing you with some LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy tips that will help in knowing how to tackle the English Section of the exam.

English Section is one of the trickiest sections of competitive exams like the LIC HFL Exam. It is easy and scoring for candidates even with average English skills. However, it is also a section where candidates get overconfident and can commit silly mistakes which loses them valuable marks.

Hence, it is essential that for LIC HFL Assistant Exam preparation, candidates should give proper attention to studying the English Section. This blog will give you all the important LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy tips and information that you must know for your LIC HFL Exam Preparation.

LIC HFL Preparation – Exam Pattern

Section	No. of Questions	Max. Marks	Duration
English Language	50	50	35 Mins
Logical Reasoning	50	50	35 Mins
General Awareness	50	50	15 Mins
Numerical Ability	50	50	35 Mins
Total	200	200	120 Mins

LIC HFL Exam Preparation – English Language Syllabus

• Spotting Errors
• Vocabulary (Synonyms/ Antonyms)
• Sentence Improvement
• Para jumbles
• Reading Comprehension
• Para Completion
• Sentence Connectors
• Cloze Test

LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy – Best Books to Refer

	Author / Publication	Name of Book
1.	Wren and Martin	High School English Grammar and Composition
2.	S P Bakshi	Objective General English
3.	S C Gupta	General English for All Competitive Exams
4.	Neetu Singh	Plinth Paramount

LIC HFL English Sections- 2019 and 2018 Analysis

Total Questions- 50, Difficulty Level- Easy to Moderate

2018	2019
Sentence Rearrangement – 10 Questions	Cloze Test – 8 Questions
Reading Comprehension – 8 Questions	Reading Comprehension – 8 Questions
Cloze Test – 8 Questions	Synonyms & Antonyms- 8 Questions
Fillers – 7 Questions	Para Jumbles – 5 Questions
Error Detection – 6 Questions	Fill in the Blanks – 5 Questions
Sentence Corrections – 6 Questions	Error Detection – 6 Questions
Spelling Errors – 5 Questions	Miscellaneous – 10 Questions

LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy – Tips

English is not a difficult section to clear which is why most candidates underestimate this section. Like any other subject on the LIC HFL exam, English should be prepared for with due consideration. Here we detail some general tips for your LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy and further break it down into topic-wise tips so that you know what to look out for.

General Tips

• It is essential to prepare a comprehensive study plan and follow it with discipline and dedication.
• Tackle the syllabus topic-wise. Read-understand-practice should be your cycle of preparation. First, read the topic from the book, then understand the concepts and finally practice the topic by solving questions.
• Practicing Online Mock tests during your actual exam timings is a great way of determining preparedness. It helps the brain get familiar with the high-pressure environment of the exam. Also, mock tests help figure out what topics are proving difficult to score and need deeper focus. For this, solve Online Mock tests.
• To have an upper hand in the English preparation, it is advised to read at least one newspaper – editorials, especially every day. This would be of immense help in improving your vocabulary and reading speed. The Hindu has by far the best when it comes to editorials and opinion pieces that are likely to appear for reading comprehension.
• Keeping a dictionary beside you to refer to encountering a new word helps improve vocabulary and makes you familiar with unfamiliar terms that may appear in questions.

Topic-wise tips

Reading Comprehension

• To ace the reading comprehension questions, it is always best to read through the questions before reading the paragraph. Not only does this save time, but it also helps the candidates to know what information to focus on in the passage. Read – A to Z of Reading Comprehension.
• Make sure to read the questions thoroughly and understand what is being asked. Also carefully skim through the passage and consider all possible options.

Cloze Test

• Eliminating options can be the best way to arrive at the correct answer for cloze test questions. With practice, candidates can easily master this technique and can solve all the questions on the Cloze test correctly. Read the complete guide to Cloze Tests.
• Reading will help immensely in predicting the answers for sentences of the cloze test.

Error Spotting

• Good grammar sense is the key to solving the error-spotting question type.
• It is often helpful to read the given sentence out loud, silently, of course, to help determine where the error lies.
• The errors usually lie in the verbs, tenses, prepositions, etc. so make sure to make those concepts strong before attempting error-spotting.

Para Jumbles

• Para Jumbles are basically paragraphs with jumbles sentences. The key to para jumbles is identifying the main theme of the paragraph.
• Once the theme is identified, determining the first sentence will help in cracking the jumble faster.
• Read more on the strategy of tackling para jumbles.

That is all in about the LIC HFL English Preparation Strategy. These tips will help refine your learning and make the English section easy to tackle. We hope you find these tips helpful in your preparation plan to achieve success.

Best of Luck!