In the English Section (if you select English as a language paper) of the CUET test, you will have seven different types of questions that you need to solve. The test will be 45 minutes.
Reading Passage/Comprehension: This will have 1-2 passages with 4-5 questions in each passage. The total time that can be invested in solving it is 15–20 minutes (2–3 minutes reading a passage and 1 minute/question answering). Questions will be asked on the main idea, inferences, vocabulary, and tone based on passages. These are the easiest type of questions, and students can score a lot in this as these passages are easy to comprehend.
Vocabulary: This will have questions related to synonyms, antonyms, idioms, one-word substitutions, and fill-in-the-blanks. Please don’t spend more than 30-40 seconds on each question. Hence, the total time utilized will be 5-7 minutes. Test takers find the questions a bit tough as they generally do not have a variety of lexical diversity, making it challenging.
Grammar: Error detection, sentence improvement, and corrections will be the basis of these questions. Each question in this part will take at least 40–50 seconds per question. Thus, 7-8 minutes will be spent. The right way of working out these types of questions is to be accurate in grammar. That is what will lead you in spotting the errors.
Sentence Rearrangement: Forming coherent paragraphs from jumbled sentences will be asked in this part. The time allotted to each question should be 1-2 minutes per question. These are low-hanging fruit and scoring sections in the CUET test.
Literary Devices: identifying figures of speech or stylistic elements.
Verbal reasoning: analogies, sentence completion, and related word pairs.
Critical Thinking: Logical and analytical reasoning through textual interpretation.
Do not waste time on one question, as this will result in an incomplete paper submission. Try all the questions and attempt the ones you find easy, and have confidence. If you are left with time, then mark the ones you were not sure of.
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