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Tryst with Destiny speech made by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Introduction .. This historic speech rated as one among the best 100 speeches made ever, was delivered in the Indian Parliament when India was just hours away from her independence. It was a moment … Read more
ISC Unseen Comprehension Model Question set 1 Read the following write-up taken from Washington Post and answer the questions a, b, and c. After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week signaled that … Read more
Words and phrases .. Abyss .. Meaning 1 ..There is no denying the fact that long spells under kleptocratic self-seeking rulers has pushed Pakistan to the economic abyss. Meaning 2 ..It means a profound difference. The abyss between the United States and Europe has widened … Read more
Summary / Precis writing exercise The following write up has 381 words. Write its summary / précis in not more than 135 words. On 27 March, the 19-year-old accused the headmaster of the madrassa she attended of calling her into his office and repeatedly touching … Read more
Summary / Precis writing.. The following passage has 378 words. Your precis should ideally be within 135 words. Passage … The farm lay in a hollow among the Somersetshire hills, an old-fashioned stone house surrounded by barns and pens and out-houses. Over the doorway the date … Read more
Vocabulary through sentences Calamitous…It means something very destructive. The calamitous earthquake that struck the Swat region in of Pakistan in 2015 caused untold suffering to the people of the area. The global financial crisis that hit the industrialized economies in the period 2007-2008 had a … Read more
Vocabulary through sentences Inveterate, Dissonance, Bellicose, Bluster, A fool’s errand Inveterate .. It means an ingrained habit, or practice that won’t change. Viewers of Indian TV channels get disgusted to see the anchors’ inveterate tendency to sensationalize trivial issues … Read more
Summary / Precis writing exercise …. The following passage has close to 310 words. Write its summary in no more than 110 words. I started out by saying that nature and the railways had little or no meeting ground. But occasionally there is an exception. … Read more
ISC Composition specimen… When you were 10 years old, you had to accompany your father for a journey to a village a few kilometers away. You had to cross a wide river by a ferry boat. Describe how you felt as the boat made its … Read more
Comprehension 14 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess … Read more