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Topics of General English for Competitive Exams
The English section is considered to be the most important and scoring section as it does not involve any formula or tricks to remember. Moreover, answering questions in the general English section takes lesser time when compared to other tricky sections of competitive exams.
General English questions are designed in the examination to test candidates knowledge and understanding of basic grammar, vocabulary and important rules of the English language.
Hence, given below are a few important topics of general English for competitive exams to assist candidates in their preparations.
- Rules For Tenses
- Rules For Prepositions
- List of Prepositions
- Rules and List of Conjunctions
- Active And Passive Voice Rules
- List of One Word Substitutions
- List of Homophones/Homonyms
- List of Synonyms and Antonyms
- Idioms And Phrases
- Spotting the Error
- Reading Comprehension
- Cloze Test
- Letter Writing Format
- Precis Writing
- Sentence Correction Questions
- Adjective Degree Of Comparison Rules
- Article Rules
- Direct & Indirect Speech Rules
- Sentence Rearrangement & Para jumbles
Candidates are advised to keep a track of this page as we’ll keep adding new topics of general English for competitive exams, in the list given above.
Candidates who are preparing for different competitive exams must keep abreast with the common and confusing words and their differences, as these are frequently asked in the English section of the examinations. Check the list below:
- 1. Difference Between Besides and Beside
- 2. Difference Between Yolk and Yoke
- 3. Difference Between Principal and Principle
- 4. Difference Between Program and
- 5. Difference Between Award and Reward
- 6. Difference Between Affect and Effect
- 7. Difference Between Center and Centre
- 8. Difference between Rain, Reign and Rein
- 9. Difference Between Subject And Predicate
- 10. Difference Between Fair and Fare
- 11. Difference Between Precis and Summary
- 12. Difference Between Phrase and Clause
After going through the concepts and rules on important topics given above, aspirants can check the relevant English questions and answers that are frequently asked in various government exams or other competitive exams.
Tips For General English Preparation
- Building vocabulary: This contributes the most to ace the English language section of competitive exams. Learn new words every day and use them in daily conversation to remember them for a longer time period. Make use of flashcards for vocabulary building. Nowadays, many mobile applications for online flashcards have gained popularity, download and use them to memorize new words.
- Strong Grammar Basics: Brush up and strengthen basic English grammar essentials such as noun, verb, pronoun, tenses, prepositions, conjunctions, degree of comparison, etc. Go through English grammar tests and guides, use English books like Wren and Martin to prepare. Practice exercises on tenses and active-passive voices, etc. on a daily basis. Take up writing tasks, form meaningful sentences, analyse mistakes and improve.
- Improve comprehension skills: Practice reading comprehension daily, identify the manner of the paragraph and read the starting and last paragraph thoroughly, two times. Note down major points while reading to remember and carefully go through the questions to recognize and find the answer easily.
- Reading newspapers and magazines – Daily habits of going through important newspapers and magazines will help improve grammar and vocabulary. Analyze the formation of sentences, note down new words and learn their meanings. With all this, you will simultaneously prepare for general awareness and current affairs as well.
- Error spotting is difficult as you cannot remember all the grammar rules, therefore with serious reading habits, you will intuitively get to know the error in the sentence. Similarly, sentence formation is also built up with reading exercise.