Precis Writing Practice Passage One for Beginners

• Fleeting (adjective): Lasting for a very short time
  • Contextual Explanation: Contrasts faith's enduring nature with temporary emotions
• Endures (verb): Remains in existence; lasts
  • Contextual Explanation: Highlights faith's continuous presence despite difficulties
• Persevere (verb): Continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success
  • Contextual Explanation: To persist and overcome challenges with the help of faith
• Resilience (noun): The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
  • Contextual Explanation: The ability to bounce back from adversity, strengthened by fait

The passage is about the role of faith in human life, showing how it provides humans with stability, strength, and resilience in different uncertain or difficult situations. Moreover, the purpose of the passage is to emphasize the sustaining power of faith in human life, highlighting that it gives them meaning, hope, and emotional strength when logic and certainty fail them.

Main Idea of the Passage

• Faith provides humans with enduring strength, resilience, and guidance in times of uncertainty and hardship.

Supporting Ideas Helping the Main Idea

• Faith provides humans with an anchor in difficult times.
• It gives them strength when logic fails.
• Unlike their temporary emotions, faith endures.
• Faith shapes their decisions and responses.
• In a doubtful world, it gives them resilience, meaning, and balance.

Confused About Main and Supporting Ideas?

Kindly make sure to revise all five lectures on Precis Writing that I have already delivered. In these sessions, we discussed in detail:

• What a precis is and its purpose.
• What the main idea means and how to extract it effectively.
• What supporting ideas are and how to identify them.
• How to coordinate the main and supporting ideas while writing a concise, coherent precis.

Additionally, go through the 20 examples I shared in the WhatsApp groups. These examples highlight the Dos and Don’ts of Precis Writing, and revising them will help you avoid common mistakes and refine your technique.

Precis 1

Faith provides people with strength and guidance, shaping their choices and helping them persevere with hope and balance during life's uncertainties.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 21
• Title: Faith as Strength and Compass in Human Life

Precis 2

Lasting faith gives individuals strength, guiding them to face their life's hardships with hope, stability, and emotional strength.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 18
• Title: The Guiding Power of Faith in Hardships

Precis 3

Enduring faith equips individuals with strength and direction, helping them strive through life's uncertainties with purpose and balance.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 18
• Title: Faith as Endurance Amid Life’s Uncertainties

Precis 4

Relentless faith sustains individuals' strength, drives their choices, and ensures their resilience in life's apprehensions.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 15
• Title: Faith as the Driving Force of Resilience

Precis 5

Preserving faith arms individuals with the strength to weather life's storms.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 11

Title: Faith as Shield Against Life’s Storms

Precis 6

Unrelenting faith, individuals' linchpin, steers their endurance through life's tempests.

• Original Words in the Passage: 57
• Precis Word Count: 10
• Title: Faith as Backbone of Human Endurance