Sunday, December 11, 2011

English Schmenglish

I quite coincidentally came across the English exam which our 10th graders are supposed to take tomorrow. They are in the midst of their "half-yearly exams."

A few choice excerpts from the test (with many more errata, but I'll spare you):

11. Identify the right spellings of the words:

b) crafts man ship / crafts menship / craftman ship
c) monolitic / inscreption / inspcription


12. Replace the underlined word with its equivalent American English word.

a) If you throw wastes in to dustbin than you will find your class neat.


16. Attach a prefix to the word taken from the list

She was ___taken for her mother as the child looked just like her.

a) un  b) en  c) mis  d) dis


23. Which of the options below will the suit the following sentences? [which ones??]

a) she can pass the exam
b) she could have passed the exam
c) she could have been passed the exam


24. Identify the pattern of the following sentence

He work his new uniform regularly

a) S V O A
b) S V O
c) S V C A


26. Complete the sentence

No other girl in the class is  ________________ kamala

a) most claver as
b) more cleverer as
c) as claver as


29. Choose the correct verb form to complete the sentence.

We decided ____________ Home works regularly

a) do
b) to do
c) doing


33. From the context of two sentences given below form a single sentence.

Meena knew that her father brought toys, Meena stopped playing game.


40. Why did Hughie wish to apologies to the baron?


41. What can artistes do to save the planet?


42. What is twofold duty to be acquired by students?


47. Write a short note on bird migration? 


59. Describer the daily routine of chaya and her family?


1 comment:

  1. Wow. I think I just failed my first English usage test ever...

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