Comprehension and Translation (Sindhi–Hindi/English)
What is tested
Comprehension items give an unseen Sindhi passage followed by short questions; translation items ask for a Sindhi passage to be rendered into Hindi or English, or the reverse. Comprehension answers must be in your own words and in complete sentences. Translation is marked for sense, not for word-for-word correspondence.
Rules
- Translate by meaning units (clauses), not word by word.
- Respect Sindhi word order when reading, but rebuild the sentence in the target language's order: Sindhi is SOV, English is SVO.
- Keep tenses consistent; a silent shift of tense is the commonest error in translation answers.
- Transliterate proper nouns and keep one spelling throughout the answer.
- Replace an idiom with an equivalent idiom in the target language; a literal rendering is marked wrong.
Worked example
Translate: 'Ram's father went to the market yesterday.' Decide in this order. (1) The possessive: Sindhi marks it with jo / ji / je agreeing with the possessed noun, so the marker follows 'father', not 'Ram'. (2) The postposition for 'to the market'. (3) The time adverb, which sits before the verb in Sindhi but can move in English. (4) The past tense marker. A rendering that keeps English word order inside Sindhi, or drops the genitive agreement, reads as ungrammatical even when every word is right.
Traps that cost marks
Literal idiom translation. Changing the subject halfway through a long sentence. Leaving an English word untranslated when a normal Sindhi equivalent exists. Copying a whole sentence from the passage as a comprehension answer.