Verbal Aptitude Test

I. Read the sentence (which is split into 3 parts (A, B, and C)) to find out if any of its
part is ungrammatical. Choose the incorrect option.

1. (A) Did everyone

(B) remember
(C) their job?
(D) no error

Answer: ________

2. (A) All of
(B) the team
(C) was there
(D) no error

Answer: ________

3. (A) It was
(B) them
(C) who did it
(D) no error

Answer: _________

II. In the question a part of the sentence is italicized and underlined. Alternative to that part
is given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct
alternative.

4. Vijay eats faster than me

(A) eats the fastest between two of us

(B) eats the fastest between both of us
(C) eats faster than I
(D) no improvement needed

Answer: _________________________
 5. It was us who had left before he arrived

(A) We who had left before he arrived

(B) We who had left before time he had arrived
(C) Us who had went before he had arrived
(D) No improvement needed

Answer: ______________________

6. If you were on a three month software design project and, in two weeks, you’ve put
together a programme that solves part of the problem, show it to your boss without
delay.

(A) You’ve put together a programme that has solved part of the problem
(B) You’ve put together a programme that had solved part of the problem
(C) You’ve put together a programme that solved only part of the problem
(D) No improvement needed

Answer: _____________________________

III. The parts of the sentences are not given in the proper order. Read the sentences
and find out the combination which is correct.

7. (A) this can be performed irrespective of attention. (B) you will often find yourself
reading words or characters automatically, while your mind is concerned with a totally
different subject. (C) this mere mechanism of reading becomes altogether automatic at
an early period of life. (D) to read the characters or the letters of the text does not mean
reading in the true sense of the word. (E) however, I cannot call it reading when it is just
to extract the narrative portion of a text.

(i) BDEAC
(ii) BDACE
(iii) DBCAE
(iv) DBACE

Answer: _______________

8. (A) if you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never
develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting. (B) Marx thought that religion was the
opiate, because it soothed people’s pain and suffering and prevented them from rising
in rebellion. (C) if Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of
the people. (D) television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate
because of their addictive tendencies.

(i) BACD
(ii) ADBC
(iii) BCDA
(iv) CBDA

Answer: ____________