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FAST-NU Entry Test English Flashcards
50 question-and-answer cards covering English as it is examined in FAST-NU Entry 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 sentence correction, what is a 'dangling modifier'?
A modifying phrase whose intended subject is missing or unclear, e.g., 'Walking home, the rain started' (who was walking?).
What is faulty parallelism in a sentence?
When items in a list or series are not in the same grammatical form, e.g., 'She likes reading, to write, and jogging' should be 'reading, writing, and jogging'.
What is a comma splice and how is it corrected?
Joining two independent clauses with only a comma; correct it with a period, semicolon, or a coordinating conjunction.
Correct the error: 'Each of the players have a uniform.' What is right?
'Each of the players has a uniform' — 'each' is singular and requires the singular verb 'has'.
What is a synonym?
A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word (e.g., happy and joyful).
Give a synonym for the word 'abundant'.
Plentiful (also: ample, copious, profuse).
Give a synonym for the word 'diligent'.
Hardworking (also: industrious, assiduous, conscientious).
Give a synonym for the word 'candid'.
Frank (also: honest, straightforward, sincere).
What is an antonym?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word (e.g., hot and cold).
What is the antonym of 'benevolent'?
Malevolent (also: cruel, unkind, hostile).
What is the antonym of 'transparent'?
Opaque.
What is the antonym of 'frugal'?
Extravagant (also: wasteful, lavish).
Why must vocabulary words be judged by meaning 'in context'?
Because many words are polysemous (have multiple meanings) and the surrounding sentence determines which meaning applies.
In context, what does 'novel' mean in 'a novel approach to the problem'?
New or original (here it is an adjective, not the noun meaning a book).
In context, what does the word 'check' mean in 'The dam checks the flow of water'?
To restrain, stop, or control — not the financial or examination meanings.
What is an idiom?
A fixed expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal meanings of its individual words (e.g., 'kick the bucket' means to die).
What does the idiom 'a blessing in disguise' mean?
Something that seems bad or unlucky at first but results in something good.
What does the idiom 'to bite the bullet' mean?
To force oneself to endure or do something difficult or unpleasant.
What does the phrase 'once in a blue moon' mean?
Very rarely; almost never.
What does the idiom 'to let the cat out of the bag' mean?
To accidentally reveal a secret.
In a sentence-completion question, what should you analyze to choose the correct word for a blank?
The context clues, logical relationship (contrast, cause-effect, definition) and signal words like 'but', 'because', or 'although' that indicate the needed meaning.
In sentence rearrangement (jumbled sentences), what is the first step to find the correct order?
Identify the opening sentence (often containing the main subject/noun, not a pronoun) and then link ideas using pronouns, connectors, and logical sequence.
In verbal analogies, what does 'A is to B as C is to D' require you to find?
The pair (C:D) that shares the same relationship as the given pair (A:B), such as synonym, antonym, part-to-whole, or cause-to-effect.
What is the word relationship in the analogy 'Author : Book :: Composer : Symphony'?
Creator to creation (the maker and the thing they produce).
What this deck covers
The English deck follows the FAST-NU Entry Test English syllabus — 4 chapters and 15 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 12.5 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 84 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 FAST-NU Entry 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 FAST-NU Entry 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 FAST-NU Entry Test English syllabus — 4 chapters and 15 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.