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The document is a sample question paper for the UG Admission Test in English at Presidency University, Kolkata, consisting of two groups: Group A focuses on language skills worth 40 marks, while Group B emphasizes literature worth 60 marks. Group A includes tasks such as correcting errors, rewriting sentences, and finding synonyms, while Group B requires a critical appreciation of a poem, short notes on authors or works, and a commentary on a picture. Candidates must qualify in Group A to have their Group B responses evaluated.

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The document is a sample question paper for the UG Admission Test in English at Presidency University, Kolkata, consisting of two groups: Group A focuses on language skills worth 40 marks, while Group B emphasizes literature worth 60 marks. Group A includes tasks such as correcting errors, rewriting sentences, and finding synonyms, while Group B requires a critical appreciation of a poem, short notes on authors or works, and a commentary on a picture. Candidates must qualify in Group A to have their Group B responses evaluated.

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Presidency University, Kolkata

Department of English
UG Admission Test, 2012.

Sample Question Paper

Time: 2 hours Full Marks: 100


No Extra Sheets will be provided

Group B will be evaluated only if the candidate qualifies in Group A.

Group A (Language 40 marks)

1. Correct the errors (spelling and usage) in the following sentences and rewrite. (Only UK English
is to be used): 10x2

a) Either he or I is mistaken.
b) Most of the poetries in the syllabus is difficult.
c) The whether this year is more better than it was last year.
d) Before loosing conciousness, she gave her telephone number.
e) She was forbidden not to go out.
f) One of the library books irretrievebly were lost.
g) The man had died before the doctor comes.
h) Her ineligible handwriting makes it very strainuous to read.
i) I gave my friend a book who returned from America last year.
j) He suffers from an incurrable disese.

2. Rewrite the sentences as directed or fill in the blanks: 5x2

a) My grandfather is the fittest person I know. His house is at the top of a steep
hill. (Begin with ‘My grandfather’ and join the sentences without using ‘and’)
b) She was much ___________ (effected/ affected) by what the teacher said.
c) I do not know ________________ to do, nor ___________to ask for advice. ( Use relative
pronouns)
d) I cannot ________________what will happen in the future. ( prophecy/prophesy)
e) Today we _______________ a television programme through the evening. ( Use the correct tense
of the verb ‘to watch’)

3.Choose and write the word/phrase closest in meaning to the first word given in
each line below: 5x2

a) Foliaceous: fallacy; elaborate; like leaves


b) Stasis: steady; stagnation; gossip
c) Vicarious: serving as a substitute; vicious; transitory
d) Simulate: counterfeit; assign; falsity
e) Titanic: ship; huge; pertaining to the sea
Group B (Literature 60 marks)

1. Write a critical appreciation of the following poem in not more than 600 words: 30

There is a change--and I am poor;


Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did; not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.

What happy moments did I count!


Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? Shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.

A well of love--it may be deep--


I trust it is,--and never dry:
What matter? If the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.
--Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.

2. Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 50 words each 5X2

a) Charles Dickens b) Orhan Pamuk c) The God of Small Things d) Bangadarshan

3. Comment on the following picture in not more than 300 words: 20

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