English / Hindi Language
The Language section is offered bilingually - you answer either the English or the Hindi version - and tests comprehension plus grammatical accuracy rather than literature.
English
- Reading comprehension: every answer must be supported by the passage; main idea, inference and tone questions dominate.
- Error spotting: check subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, prepositions, articles and parallelism.
- Cloze test: read the whole passage once; collocations usually decide the blank.
- Para jumbles: the opener has no pronoun or connecting word; then follow connectors such as however and therefore.
- Fillers: single and double blanks test vocabulary in context, so watch confused pairs such as affect/effect and principal/principle.
Hindi
- वर्तनी शुद्धि, मुहावरे व लोकोक्तियाँ, कारक, वचन-लिंग, संधि-समास, और गद्यांश का मुख्य भाव.
Worked example
One of the branch managers have submitted the report. The subject is one, which is singular, not managers; the pattern one of + plural noun takes a singular verb. Correct sentence: One of the branch managers has submitted the report.
Traps
Collective nouns - the committee has (as a unit) versus the committee have (its members); each and every take singular verbs; idioms cannot be read literally; RC answers drawn from outside knowledge rather than the passage; in Hindi, reading a मुहावरा literally.