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BDS Admission Test English Flashcards
50 question-and-answer cards covering English as it is examined in BDS Admission Test. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the English deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
In error identification, what are the most common error categories to check?
Subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, pronoun reference, prepositions/articles, parallelism, and word form (part of speech).
Identify the error: 'He don't like tea.' What is the correction?
Subject-verb agreement error: should be 'He doesn't like tea.'
Identify the error: 'She is more taller than me.'
Double comparative: should be 'She is taller than me' (remove 'more').
Identify the error: 'One of the boys are absent.'
Subject-verb agreement: 'One' is singular, so it should be 'One of the boys is absent.'
Choose the correct word: 'effect' or 'affect' — 'The medicine will ___ his recovery.'
'affect' (verb meaning to influence); 'effect' is usually a noun meaning result.
Choose the correct word: 'their', 'there', or 'they're' for 'I put it over ___.'
'there' (indicates place).
What is the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'?
'principal' = head of a school OR main/chief; 'principle' = a fundamental rule or belief.
What is the difference between 'accept' and 'except'?
'accept' = to receive/agree to; 'except' = excluding/apart from.
What is the difference between 'fewer' and 'less'?
'fewer' is used with countable nouns (fewer books); 'less' is used with uncountable nouns (less water).
In contextual sentence completion, what should the chosen word match?
It must fit the sentence's grammar (part of speech, tense, number) and its meaning/tone (logic, contrast, cause-effect).
Fill in the blank: 'Although he was tired, he ___ continued working.' What kind of word fits?
A word showing contrast/persistence, e.g., 'nevertheless' or 'still' — signaled by 'Although'.
Fill in the blank: 'It was raining heavily; ___ the match was cancelled.'
'therefore' (a result/cause-effect connector).
What is the first step in answering a reading-passage question?
Read the passage to grasp the main idea, then read the question and locate the relevant supporting detail in the text.
What is the difference between a 'detail' question and a 'main idea' question in reading comprehension?
A detail question asks about a specific fact stated in the passage; a main idea question asks about the central point of the whole passage.
What is an inference in reading comprehension?
A logical conclusion drawn from evidence in the text that is implied but not directly stated.
How is the main idea of a passage different from its topic?
The topic is what the passage is about (a word/phrase); the main idea is the central point or message the author makes about that topic (a full statement).
Where is the main idea or topic sentence usually found in a paragraph?
Most often at the beginning (first sentence), though it can also appear at the end or be implied.
What does 'tone' refer to in a reading passage?
The author's attitude or feeling toward the subject (e.g., critical, humorous, objective, optimistic).
What is a verbal analogy?
A comparison showing the relationship between two pairs of words, where the second pair relates in the same way as the first (A is to B as C is to D).
In the analogy 'hot : cold :: up : ___', what completes it and what is the relationship?
'down' — the relationship is antonyms (opposites).
In the analogy 'puppy : dog :: kitten : ___', what completes it and what is the relationship?
'cat' — the relationship is young-to-adult animal.
In the analogy 'finger : hand :: leaf : ___', what completes it?
'tree' (or branch) — the relationship is part to whole.
In the analogy 'doctor : hospital :: teacher : ___', what completes it and what is the relationship?
'school' — the relationship is worker to workplace.
Name four common types of word-relationship/analogy connections.
Synonym, antonym, part-to-whole, cause-and-effect (others: worker-to-tool, item-to-category, degree).
What this deck covers
The English deck follows the BDS Admission Test English syllabus — 6 chapters and 14 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 8.3 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 89 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
English flashcards FAQ
How many English flashcards are in this BDS Admission Test deck?
50 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
Are these BDS Admission Test flashcards free?
Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 50-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the English cards cover?
They follow the BDS Admission Test English syllabus — 6 chapters and 14 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
How should I use these flashcards?
Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then drill the deck. Examius schedules each card with spaced repetition, so cards you keep missing come back sooner and ones you know drift further apart.