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VITEEE English Flashcards
51 question-and-answer cards covering English as it is examined in VITEEE. 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.
What is the correct preposition error in 'He is good in mathematics'?
It should be 'good AT mathematics'; 'good at' is the correct collocation for skill in a subject.
In sentence improvement, why is 'less mistakes' incorrect?
'Mistakes' is countable, so it requires 'fewer'; 'less' is used with uncountable nouns. Correct: 'fewer mistakes.'
How do you convert an active voice sentence to passive voice?
Make the object of the active sentence the subject, use the appropriate form of 'be' + past participle of the main verb, and place the original subject after 'by' (optional). E.g., 'She wrote a letter' → 'A letter was written by her.'
In passive voice, what happens to the tense and the verb form?
The tense stays the same but is shown through the auxiliary 'be', and the main verb becomes the past participle (e.g., 'is writing' → 'is being written').
Convert to passive: 'They are building a bridge.'
A bridge is being built (by them).
Convert to passive: 'Someone has stolen my bike.'
My bike has been stolen.
What are the basic changes when converting direct speech to indirect (reported) speech?
Remove quotation marks, use a reporting conjunction (that/if/to), back-shift the tense, and change pronouns and time/place words appropriately (e.g., 'now'→'then', 'today'→'that day').
In reported speech, how does 'will' change and how does 'can' change?
'Will' changes to 'would' and 'can' changes to 'could' when the reporting verb is in the past tense.
Convert to indirect speech: He said, 'I am tired.'
He said that he was tired.
Convert to indirect speech: She said to me, 'Please help me.' (request)
She requested me to help her.
How is a direct question (interrogative) reported in indirect speech?
Use a reporting verb like 'asked', remove the question mark, change to statement word order, and use 'if/whether' for yes-no questions or the wh-word for wh-questions. E.g., 'He asked, "Where do you live?"' → 'He asked where I lived.'
In direct/indirect speech, how do 'this' and 'these' change?
'This' changes to 'that' and 'these' changes to 'those'.
What is the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'?
'Affect' is usually a verb meaning to influence; 'effect' is usually a noun meaning the result. E.g., 'Rain affects crops; the effect is good yield.'
What is the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'?
'Principal' means chief/head (e.g., school principal) or a main sum of money; 'principle' is a fundamental rule or belief.
What is the difference between 'stationary' and 'stationery'?
'Stationary' means not moving/fixed; 'stationery' means writing materials such as paper and pens.
Distinguish 'complement' from 'compliment'.
'Complement' means something that completes or goes well with another; 'compliment' means an expression of praise.
What does the idiom 'a blessing in disguise' mean?
Something that seems bad or unlucky at first but later turns out to be beneficial.
What does the idiom 'once in a blue moon' mean?
Very rarely; almost never.
What does the idiom 'to let the cat out of the bag' mean?
To reveal a secret, usually accidentally.
What does the phrase 'to bite the bullet' mean?
To force oneself to do something unpleasant or difficult that is unavoidable, bravely accepting it.
What is the difference between a synonym and an antonym?
A synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning as another (big/large); an antonym is a word with the opposite meaning (big/small).
What is the difference between 'denotation' and 'connotation' of a word?
Denotation is a word's literal dictionary meaning; connotation is the emotional or cultural association it carries (e.g., 'childish' vs 'childlike').
What is a 'homophone'? Give an example.
Words that sound the same but differ in meaning and usually spelling, e.g., 'their / there / they're' or 'pair / pear'.
In contextual vocabulary, how do prefixes and suffixes help determine a word's meaning?
A prefix added at the start changes meaning (e.g., 'un-' = not, 're-' = again) and a suffix added at the end often changes the word's part of speech or meaning (e.g., '-less' = without, '- tion' makes a noun), letting you decode unfamiliar words from their parts.
What this deck covers
The English deck follows the VITEEE English syllabus — 3 chapters and 9 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 17.0 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 112 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 VITEEE deck?
51 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
Are these VITEEE flashcards free?
Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 51-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the English cards cover?
They follow the VITEEE English syllabus — 3 chapters and 9 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.