Bahasa Inggeris
Domain ini menguji ketepatan tatabahasa Inggeris, kosa kata dan keupayaan menulis serta memahami teks rasmi. Soalan lazim berbentuk pembetulan ayat, cloze, pemahaman dan penulisan e-mel rasmi, jadi kuasai struktur ayat dan bukan sekadar terjemahan.
Grammar yang sering diuji
- Subject–verb agreement: "The reports submitted by the officer were..." (subjek "reports"), tetapi "Each of the officers is responsible".
- Tenses: present perfect untuk tindakan yang bermula dahulu dan berterusan ("She has served since 2019"); past simple untuk masa yang jelas.
- Articles: "a university" (bunyi /juː/), "an hour", "the" untuk rujukan khusus.
- Prepositions: comply with, responsible for, depend on, consist of, attend to.
- Passive voice dalam penulisan rasmi: "The form must be submitted by 5 p.m."
Vocabulary
- affect (kata kerja) berbanding effect (kata nama); complement berbanding compliment; principal berbanding principle; ensure (pastikan) berbanding assure (yakinkan seseorang) berbanding insure (insurans).
Format e-mel rasmi
Subjek yang jelas, salutation ("Dear Mr Tan,"), tujuan dalam ayat pertama, butiran tindakan, penutup ("Thank you."), dan tandatangan dengan nama, jawatan serta unit.
Worked example
Ayat: "The committee have decide to postpone the meeting because most of the members was unable to attend." Pembetulan: "The committee has decided to postpone the meeting because most of the members were unable to attend." Rasional: "committee" bertindak sebagai satu badan, jadi kata kerja tunggal "has"; selepas "has" perlu past participle "decided"; "most of the members" ialah jamak, jadi "were".
Traps
- Menganggap collective nouns sentiasa jamak.
- Menggunakan "since" dengan past simple sedangkan ayat memerlukan present perfect.
- Menulis e-mel panjang tanpa satu pun tindakan yang jelas.
- Menterjemah ungkapan Melayu secara literal ke dalam Inggeris.