AFCAT English Revision

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Preparation Tips for English in Competitive Exams

• You have to brush up on your English Grammar. Pay attention to the grammatical mistakes as they can change the meaning of the sentence.
• Practice and work hard on your General Knowledge and keep it updated time to time via reading books, magazine on current affairs and events.
• It is not so important that you must join a coaching centre for doing preparations for competitive exam. You can do your study by planning your study schedule in a proper manner.
• Candidate should make a habit of reading English newspaper on a regular basis particularly the editorial part. It helps in humanizing comprehension skills and better understanding of the language.
• Candidate must be attentive of the time factor and the need to plan out answering each section within a targeted time. Candidates having strong vocabulary may easily solve this section.
• The other important part in English is comprehension which helps you to score good in this subject. For descriptive part, work on writing skills by writing short notes on day to day topics for developing your skills of sentence formation and proper usage of grammar.
• It is not difficult to solve all questions of any exam. But it is difficult to solve all of them in a given time duration. You should distribute equal time to each section and more time should be given to the section or part in which you feel you are weak.
• You must take help from the previous year papers or mock test papers and Sample papers are easily available in market and try to solve them in given time period. These practices will improve your performance in the examination.

Question: Synonyms

1. CORPULENT

1. Lean  
2. Gaunt
3. Emaciated
4. Obese

Ans-1) 4

2. BRIEF

1. Limited
2. Small
3. Little  
4. Short

Ans-2) 4

3. EMBEZZLE

1. Misappropriate
2. Balance
3. Remunerate  
4. Clear

Ans-3) 1

4. VENT

1. Opening
2. Stodge
3. End    
4. Past tense of go

Ans-4) 1

5. AUGUST

1. Common      
2. Ridiculous
3. Dignified       
4. Petty

Ans-5) 3

Question- Sentence Correction

6. The small child does whatever his father was done.

1. has done
2. did
3. does
4. had done
5. No correction required

Ans-6) 3

7. You need not come unless you want to.

1. You don't need to come unless you want to
2. You come only when you want to
3. You come unless you don't want to
4. You needn't come until you don't want to
5. No correction required

Ans-7) 1

8. There are not many men who are so famous that they are frequently referred to by their short names only

1. initials
2. signatures
3. pictures        
4. middle names
5. No correction required

Ans-8) 1

9. The man to who I sold my house was a cheat.

1. to whom I sell
2. to who I sell
3. who was sold to      
4. to whom I sold
5. No correction required

Ans-9) 4

10. They were all shocked at his failure in the competition.

1. were shocked at all  
2. had all shocked at
3. had all shocked by   
4. had been all shocked on
5. No correction required

Ans-10) 5

Question-One Word Substitutes

11-Extreme old age when a man behaves like a fool

1. Imbecility      
2. Senility
3. Dotage         
4. Superannuation

Ans-11) 3

12. That which cannot be corrected

1. Unintelligible
2. Indelible
3. Illegible        
4. Incorrigible

Ans-12) 4

13. The study of ancient societies

1. Anthropology 
2. Archaeology
3. History
4. Ethnology

Ans-13) 2

14. A person of good understanding knowledge and reasoning power

1. Expert
2. Intellectual
3. Snob  
4. Literate

Ans-14) 2

15. A person who insists on something

1. Disciplinarian 
2. Stickler
3. Instantaneous
4. Boaster

Ans-15) 2

16. State in which the few govern the many

1. Monarchy     
2. Oligarchy
3. Plutocracy     
4. Autocracy

Ans-16) 2

17. A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge

1. Pedantic       
2. Verbose
3. Pompous      
4. Ornate

Ans-17) 1

18. List of the business or subjects to be considered at a meeting

1. Schedule      
2. Timetable
3. Agenda
4. Plan

Ans-18) 3

19. Leave or remove from a place considered dangerous

1. Evade 
2. Evacuate
3. Avoid 
4. Exterminate

Ans-19) 2

20. A prima facie case is such

1. As it seems at first sight
2. As it is made to seem at first sight
3. As it turns out to be at the end
4. As it seems to the court after a number of hearings

Ans-20) 1

Nowadays almost all institutions and organizations conduct Competitive Exams for eliminating the rush and to select the best one among all the appliers.

These competitive exams either for any entrance in educational institute admissions or in job recruitment in any company, are designed to approach all the above mentioned aspects in candidates.

Many applicants feel difficulty while preparing for English subject. But with the help of Tips for Preparation for English in Competitive Exams you may do preparations properly so that you will be able to perform well in examination.

English subject in Competitive Exams is included as a core subject.  Through these competitive exams the organization evaluate the abilities of a candidate such as Subject knowledge, reasoning abilities, conceptual knowledge, English Grammar, memory power, English sentence making skills etc.

In this way the aspirants have to face a tough competition in order to get employment for jobs or get entrance in reputed institution.