Pre-Entry Proficiency Test Sample Paper

Pre-Entry Proficiency Test Sample Test Paper

PART - I

Total Marks: 80;; Time Allowed: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Choose the answer which is closest in meaning:

1. AVERSION

(A) to like

(B) hatred

(C) opposite

(D) alien

2. ERRANT

(A) early

(B) late

(C) misbehave

(D) stupid

3. DESTITUDE

(A) very poor

(B) very bad

(C) too late

(D) disliked

4. INDIFFERENT

(A) same

(B) different

(C) interested

(D) uninterested

5. VENAL

(A) abundant

(B) corrupt

(C) lazy

(D) unhappy

6. ADEPT

(A) adopt

(B) abduct

(C) skilled

(D) clumsy

7. ABRUPT

(A) powerful

(B) sudden

(C) sorrowful

(D) collect

8. LUGUBRIOUS

(A) mournful

(B) laughable

(C) very strange

(D) ridiculous

9. FORESTALL

(A) starting before something

(B) starting after something

(C) predict

(D) prevent

10. FORESEE

(A) starting before something

(B) starting after something

(C) predict

(D) prevent

11. ABSTRUSE
(A) difficult to be understood
(B) easily understood
(C) far away
(D) forever

12. RESTIVE
(A) restful
(B) restless
(C) stop
(D) straight

13. EFFICACY
(A) effectiveness
(B) disloyalty
(C) unkindness
(D) example

14. INDOLENCE
(A) effectiveness
(B) idle
(C) laziness
(D) presence

15. ASPERITY
(A) misbehaviour
(B) annul
(C) refuse
(D) prosperity

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ANSWERS

1. (B)

2. (C)

3. (A)

4. (D)

5. (B)

6. (C)

7. (B)

8. (A)

9. (D)

10. (C)

11. (A)

12. (A)

13. (A)

14. (C)

15. (D)