142 Verbal Ability Questions with Solutions
142 verbal ability questions across 4 topics, each with a time target, hints, a worked solution and an approach note.
- Topics: 4
- Questions: 142
- Cost: Free, unlimited on every plan
Grammar, vocabulary and reading — precision with words under a clock.
Verbal Ability in placement papers
Verbal ability is grammar, vocabulary and reading, and a paper rarely gives it more time a question than any other section. Verbal questions appear in 16 of the 29 patterns in the mock-test catalogue, always as a section of their own except in the thirty-minute mixed sprint.
How it is timed
The usual pace is a minute a question: 25 in 25 minutes in the pattern modelled on the TCS NQT Foundation, 20 in 20 in those modelled on Infosys, Cognizant and Adobe, and 30 in 30 in the Capgemini-modelled English Communication section. Two are much tighter: the Wipro-modelled English Ability section allows about 38 seconds a question (22 in 14 minutes) and the Deloitte-modelled Language Skills about 46 (13 in 10). Some patterns gate on this section alone. The pattern modelled on Capgemini reports a 65 per cent cut-off on English, the higher of its two, and the one modelled on Oracle 60 per cent on each section.
How to practise
Sentence Correction and Synonyms & Antonyms should become answerable in seconds; that speed is what buys time for Reading Comprehension. Fill in the Blanks & Para Jumbles rewards naming the logic between the two halves of a sentence before reading the options. Read a passage's questions before the passage.
Typical traps
Picking the option that feels related instead of the one that matches the definition, since antonym questions nearly always plant a synonym; and answering a passage question from outside knowledge. If you cannot point at the sentence, the option is unsupported.
Verbal Ability topics
- Synonyms & Antonyms 52 questions — Word meaning in context, and its opposite.
- Sentence Correction 34 questions — Subject–verb agreement, tenses, prepositions and modifiers.
- Fill in the Blanks & Para Jumbles 28 questions — The word that fits, and the order that reads.
- Reading Comprehension 28 questions — Short passages, precise questions.