General Hindi and English Language
Hindi section
Questions come from व्याकरण rather than literature: संधि and संधि-विच्छेद, समास and its types, उपसर्ग–प्रत्यय, तत्सम/तद्भव, पर्यायवाची, विलोम, अनेकार्थी शब्द, मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियाँ, कारक और विभक्ति, वाक्य-शुद्धि, रस, अलंकार and छंद.
- संधि: distinguish स्वर संधि (दीर्घ, गुण, वृद्धि, यण, अयादि) and व्यंजन संधि by the resulting vowel. सूर्य + उदय → सूर्योदय is गुण संधि.
- समास: तत्पुरुष (last word principal), द्विगु (first word is a numeral), द्वंद्व (both words principal), बहुव्रीहि (neither word principal, meaning points elsewhere).
English section
Synonyms and antonyms, one-word substitutions, idioms and phrases, error spotting, sentence improvement, fill in the blanks, para jumbles, and a short comprehension passage. Grammar weight sits on subject–verb agreement, articles, prepositions, tense consistency and pronoun reference.
Worked example
Spot the error: "One of my friend is coming today." The subject is "one", not "friend"; the fixed pattern is "one of + plural noun", so it must read "one of my friends". The verb "is" is correct because it agrees with "one". Checking both halves of the sentence is what earns the mark.
Traps
Picking a Hindi option that is grammatically correct but shifts the meaning; confusing अलंकार with रस; treating collective nouns as plural; forgetting that with "neither…nor" the verb agrees with the nearer subject.