DIAGNOSTIC TEST

in
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
1. academic 6. discourse
2. essay 7. technique
3. appropriate 8. vocabulary
4. author 9. conclusion
5. comprehension 10. structure
11. psychological
12. paragraph
13. language
14. introduction
15. scholars
1. When summarizing, we want to
________.
A. Highlight
B. Concise
C. Include unimportant
information
D. Summarize
2. A large unit of a written language
wherein ideas are put together in a
structure that requires them to make one
central idea is __________.
A. Discourse
B. Essay
C. Paragraph
D. Text
3. It gives the reader an idea about what
the paragraph is going to be about.

A. Body
B. Concluding sentence
C. Summary
D. Topic sentence
4. What are the three main parts of an
essay?
A. Introduction, body, and
conclusion
B. Topic sentence, body, conclusion
C. Hook, main idea, conclusion
D. None of the above
5. What does it mean to write
academically?
A. To write in order to pass final exams
B. To write paper for scholars
C. To avoid copy pasting from the
internet
D. To write using proper English language
6. What are the purposes of doing
an academic writing?
A. To settle, to negotiate, and to inform
B. To inform, to persuade, and to argue a
specific point
C. To defend, to challenge, and to question
D. To guess, to hypothesize, and to make
conclusions
7. The use of summarizing is to:
A. Understand easily
B. Retell a story
C. Get through an article more
quickly
D. Reduce information to essential
ideas
8. Joanna is writing an essay on the
features of the ocean floor, which idea
doesn’t belong in her essay?
A. Volcanoes can spew hot lava
everywhere.
B. There are many parts to the ocean floor.
C. The ocean floor is a very interesting part
of Earth
9. What is the purpose of the topic
sentence?
A. To help with the flow of sentences
B. To help the reader understand
what the paragraph will be about
C. To give coherence to the paragraph
D. None of the above
10. Which technique is used to
outline a successful essay?

A. Finding quotes by unknown people to

backup essay
B. Writing down all possible essay topics
C. Writing down all possible essay topics
D. Writing down the main idea and all
paragraph topics
11. Writing academic papers requires deliberate,
thorough, and careful thought. Therefore, what
should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic
essay?
A. One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.
B. One must not consult the internet for unsure
sources.
C. One must conduct a research on the topic at
hand.
D. One must depend highly on the internet for easy
information access.
12. Academic texts are generally
structured with ______.
A. Citation and references
B. Formality
C. Clear and good structure
D. All of the above
13. What is ‘academic
writing’?
A. The writing you find in textbooks
B. How university professors write
C. A technique to write balanced,
accurate and professional
assignments
D. An old-fashioned way of writing
14. The term, “very often” may be
improved using a more appropriate
academic word which is:
A. Rarely
B. Stubbornly
C. Frequently
D. Seriously
15. APA stands for ____________.
A. Asian Psychological Association
B. American Psychological Associates
C. Asian Psychological Associates
D. American Psychological Association
16. Which is NOT a benefit of
knowing the text structure?
A. Increased Comprehension
B. Development of Critical Thinking
C. Easy Reading
D. Extensive Reading
17. Basic Signal words are Who,
What, When, Where, Why, How?
A. True
B. False
C. Maybe
D. I don’t know
18. The main idea is
_______.
A. All the information provided
B. Unimportant information
C. The most important information
D. Nothing to worry about.
19. Who are the target readers of
an academic essay?
A. Teachers, students, academic
community
B. Parents, workers, teachers
C. Students, out-of-school youth,
government officials
D. None of the above
20. The ______ and the date of
publication are included in an in-text
citation.
A. Author’s last name
B. Author’s first name
C. Article Title
D. Page
21. An academic essay must use appropriate
vocabulary words but not too pretentious,
highfalutin words. Which among these words
is the simplified version of the term,
“supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”?

A. hardworking; industrious
B. exquisite; one-of-a-kind
C. extraordinarily good; wonderful
D. beautiful; pretty
22. Which is NOT a technique in
idea organization?
A. Annotation
B. Final Draft
C. Graphic Organizer
D. Outline
23. If you don’t have an author to cite,
what would you do for an in-text
citation?
A. Use the tile of the article and PUT IT IN
ALL CAPS
B. Use the title of the article instead, and put
it in quotes
C. DO nothing and copy it
D. Use the URL
24. What is true of the
introductory paragraph?
A. ends with the thesis
B. starts with a hook
C. Introduces the big idea of the
essay
D. All of the above
25. When do you use formal
language?
A. In sending emails
B. In an academic essay
C. When you talk to a friend
D. When you write a text message