Summary and Comprehension By Eguriase S. M. Okaka

SUMMARY AND COMPREHENSION BY EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA SUMMARY “Summary” as used in school certificate examination has specifically, a quite different meaning from it ordinary dictionary meaning. In school certificate examination, summary questions are proceeded by a question or questions calculated to test the student’s comprehension of the passage, by culture of asking the student to discern and extract the relevant leading ideas of the passage or prose, leaving out everything that is unnecessary, and reducing these major ideas to writing in a number of statements or sentences. GENERAL RULES FOR WRITING SUMMARY · ...