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- Vocabulary
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The syllabus asks for
- Synonyms and antonyms
- One word for a group of words
- Words often confused
Key points
- Learn words in pairs (word, opposite) rather than singly.
- Use prefixes and roots to decode unfamiliar words.
- One-word substitutions are tested from a limited list; learn the table above.
- Affect is usually a verb; effect is usually a noun.
- Principal (person, main), principle (rule).
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The syllabus asks for
- Idioms and phrases
- Phrasal verbs
- Words followed by prepositions and the use of prepositions
Key points
- Learn the preposition with the word: abide by, fond of, good at.
- Prefer to, superior to, inferior to: never than.
- Phrasal verbs often have a one-word equivalent (put off = postpone).
- Since with a point, for with a length.
- Idioms are never read literally.
- Grammar
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The syllabus asks for
- Use of articles
- Use of tenses
- Subject-verb agreement
Key points
- Say the word aloud: the first sound, not the first letter, picks a or an.
- The present perfect is for a time up to now; the simple past is for a finished time.
- The past perfect marks the earlier of two past actions.
- Each of, neither of, one of + plural noun → singular verb.
- Along with does not make a subject plural.
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The syllabus asks for
- Active and passive voice
- Reported speech
- Question tags
Key points
- Passive: keep the tense of be, use the third form of the main verb.
- Questions in reported speech lose the question word order.
- Do not back-shift a universal truth.
- Tags are the opposite of the statement's polarity.
- Hardly, never, nobody count as negatives.
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The syllabus asks for
- Relative pronouns and relative clauses
- Conditional sentences
- Causative verbs, to-infinitives and gerunds
Key points
- Who for people, which for things, whose for owners.
- Never use will or would in the if-clause.
- Unless already has a negative; do not add not.
- Make and let take a bare verb; get takes to.
- Learn the -ing verbs and the to verbs as two lists.
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The syllabus asks for
- Pronouns and determiners
- Modal verbs
- Degrees of comparison, conjunctions and word order
- Spotting and correcting errors
Key points
- Its is possessive, it's is "it is".
- A few is positive, few is almost none.
- Mustn't forbids; needn't does not require.
- Do not combine although with but.
- Information, advice and furniture never take -s.
- Reading
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The syllabus asks for
- Passage reading: main idea, detail, inference, vocabulary in context, tone
- One passage, annotated
- Vocabulary in context and the extreme-word filter
- Eight traps in reading comprehension
Key points
- Read the questions first.
- The answer is in the passage, not in your opinion.
- Reject options with always, never, only unless the text says so.
- Test vocabulary options by substitution.
- "NOT" means three options are true.
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The paper
2 hours, 100 single-best-answer MCQs with four options, 100 marks, 1 mark each, no negative marking (third-party sources agree; confirm in the year's notice)
| Section | Questions | Marks each | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| English grammar 40 | — | — | — |
| Mathematics 50 | — | — | — |
| General Knowledge and IT 10 | — | — | — |
Where the questions are
Questions each part carries in the paper, out of 40. Area totals follow the official syllabus; where single chapters are shown, the split between them is the NEBians estimate.
- Grammar23 Qs
- Vocabulary12 Qs
- Reading5 Qs