I have covered this topic in greater depth in previous posts namely: DGCA and the English Language Part 1 and Part 2.
Briefly put, the idea is to simplify things for yourself. The DGCA has their own reasons to put language in the C.A.R in the way they do. Probably it’s something to do with it’s legal nature and probably ALL legal documents and legal notices are worded that way. However for you to write an exam you just HAVE to break that language up into simpler, meaningful and less complicated…. I will include more example of how you can ‘decipher’ the language in further posts.
The importance of this particular step cannot be overemphasized for it’s importance. There are lots of arguments (mostly in the study groups I talked about earlier) that do the rounds in classrooms on one particular perspective here and another one there. The bottomline with the C.A.R is, there is only one perspective; that of the DGCA! Understanding this perspective takes time and experience. But breaking up the language atleast makes the language easier; and that is where you can begin with making notes.
CAUTION: Most people are somehow of the opinion that breaking up sentences and paragraphs is usually to make learning them easier. Not here.
This step is meant to derive a summary/notes out of. That actually takes us to step 3 which follows soon. Re-iterating then, to break down the C.A.R language is Not to learn, not to memorize
Back to basics - PDM
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