General Instructions :-
- Rotate your Mobile Device for Best Performance and Design.
- Total duration of examination is X minutes.
- Total number of questions are 25, which contains 25 questions of English.
- The Question Palette displayed on the right side of screen will show the status of each question using one of the following symbols:
- Not Visited questions in White background colour.
- Answered questions in green colour.
- Unanswered questions in red colour.
- Marked for review questions in purple colour
- The clock will be set at the server. The countdown timer in the top right corner of screen will display the remaining time available to you for completing the examination. When the timer reaches zero, the examination will automatically submit or end by itself. You also can end or submit your examination by clicking on submit button.
- Marked for review status for a question simply indicates that you would like to review the question again.
- Please note that if a question is answered and ‘marked for review’, your answer for that question will be considered in the evaluation.
- You can click on the question palette to navigate faster across questions.
Answering a Question :-
- Procedure for answering multiple-choice type questions:
- To select your answer, click on the button of one of the options.
- To deselect your chosen answer, click again on the button of the chosen option again or click on the Clear Response button.
- To change your chosen answer, click on the button of another option.
- To save your answer, you MUST click on the Save Next button.
- To mark a question for review, click on the Mark for Review & Next button.
- To change answer to a question that has already been answered, select that question from the Question Palette and then follow the procedure for answering that type of question.
- Note that ONLY questions for which answers are either saved or marked for review after answering, will be considered for evaluation.
- To change your answer to a question that has already been answered, first select that question for answering and then follow the procedure for answering that type of question.
- Note that ONLY Questions for which answers are saved or marked for review after answering will be considered for evaluation.
Navigating through sections :-
- Click on the question number in the Question Palette at the right of your screen to go to a question.
- Note that using this option does NOT save your answer.
- Click on Save & Next to save your answer for a question and then move to the next question.
- If you want to keep a question marked for review, click on the button Mark for Review & Next to save your answer for the current question and then proceed to the next question.
Read the following Instruction carefully :-
- This test comprises of multiple-choice questions.
- Each question will have only one of the available options as the correct answer.
- You are advised not to close the browser window before submitting the test.
- In case, if the test does not load completely or becomes unresponsive, click on browser's refresh button to reload.
Marking Scheme :-
- 1 marks will be awarded for each correct answer.
- There will be 0.25 negative marking for each wrong answer.
- No marks will be deducted for un-attempted questions
SECTION
Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Reports in recent weeks suggest that Russian intelligence gravely miscalculated the Ukrainian ___(1)___ before the war. When the Kyiv regime stayed put in the face of Russia’s multi-axis assault, the Russian generals had to change their ___(2)___, from lightning strikes across the country to a focused ground invasion in the east. Even that was made complicated by Ukraine’s resistance, which got military and financial ___(3)___ from the West. As the war dragged on, the West’s ___(4)___ to punish Russia only hardened, leading to crippling sanctions on the Russian economy. So, Mr. Putin is now in a spot, despite the limited battlefield gains of his troops: managing the sanctions-hit economy itself is a tall task; continuing the war would be costly, and there is no ___(5)___ that he would meet his strategic goals through a long-term war. And for Ukraine, despite its resistance capabilities and the support from the West, taking back territories using force remains ___(6)___. So, to break the ___(7)___, what both sides can do is agree to a ceasefire and start direct talks seeking a political solution. The UN and Turkey-mediated talks that saw a ___(8)___ in July in shipping grain from Ukraine’s ports via the Black Sea are a model worth being followed. Regional players with communication lines open to Moscow and Kyiv should ___(9)___ them to come to the table. If a war of ___(10)___ is allowed to grind on, it would continue to hurt all stakeholders, besides holding the global economy hostage.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.