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Applicants’ test results will be taken into consideration by individual faculties before offers of entry are made.  \nAbout the Test  \nThe test lasts for approximately three hours and consists of the following sections:  \nSection A – Grammar (Time allowed: 40 mins.)  \nCandidates will be required to answer alternative/multiple choice questions on any or all ofthe following:  \n• Grammar of the Simple Sentence  \n• Grammar of Complex/Compound Sentences  \n• Idiomatic Usage (diction & structures)  \n• Writing Mechanics & Spelling  \nCandidates will NOT be tested on their knowledge of formal grammar but on their ability to distinguish between correct and incorrect structures.  \nSection B – Reading (Time Allowed: 40 mins.)  \nCandidates will be required to read one or more passages and to answer alternative/multiple choice questions on any or all ofthe following:  \n• Main &/or secondary ideas  \n• Literal and figurative meaning  \n• Explicit and implicit meaning  \n• Writer’s primary intention/attitude/tone  \n• Organizational structure (paragraph/text) Section C – Writing (2 Tasks – Time allowed: 80 mins.)  \nTask 1 (45 mins.) This will require candidates to write a 300 word essay in which they provide information and ideas on a topic of general interest.  \nTask 2 (35 mins.) This will require candidates to write approximately 250 words describing numerical data contained in a table or in a graphical illustration.  \n(N.B. 15 mins. of the duration of the test will be reserved for test administration)  \nRevised 2006  \nGrammar  \nSpecimen Questions  \nInstructions: For each question, select the correct answer and shade in with your pencil the box on your answer sheet that corresponds to the number of the answer selected. 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For each question, shade with your pencil the box on the answer sheet that corresponds to the number of the answer selected.  \nThe status of the author is not what it was. Society, as people say, takes a dimmer view of him than it used to do. Possibly authors themselves are not what they were. It is an argument easy to use, and we often meet it. But it misses the point, even if we are now nothing but so many scribbling midgets. 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