MDCAT English

MDCAT English syllabus and past paper MCQs

The MDCAT English syllabus has 3 units and 20 topics. Below is every unit with its topics and the number of past paper MCQs we have for it — 235 in all, each with its correct answer and a solution.

Practise English MCQs

Units and topics

  1. Reading and Thinking Skills 6 MCQs

    Scanning to Answer Short Questions · Deducing Meaning from Context · Figurative Language

  2. Formal and Lexical Aspect of Language 191 MCQs

    Meaning from Contextual Clues · Synonyms and Shades of Meaning · Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement · Tenses · Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases · Gerunds and Gerund Phrases · Prepositions · Transitional Devices · Punctuation · Classes of Sentences and Phrases · Sentence Inversion · Active and Passive Voice · Direct and Indirect Speech

  3. Writing Skills 38 MCQs

    Proof-reading and Editing · Faulty Sentence Structure · Subject-Verb Agreement · Errors of Diction and Spelling

Reading and Thinking Skills — MDCAT MCQs

1.At last the fly was _________. The most appropriate word to be filled in is: (UHS MDCAT 2023)

  1. Trapped by the spider
  2. Entertained by the spider
  3. Invited by the spider
  4. Spared by the spider.
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Correct answer: (a) Trapped by the spider

A fly that meets a spider is caught in its web.

2.Right after the Civil War, many distraught soldiers made their way West to find fame and fortune. Some could not go home because there were no homes to go to. The war had devastated them. One young man, Will Goodlad, made his fortune in the hills of Colorado. He found gold in a little river near Grand Junction. His fortune was short lived, however. In 1875, he declared bankruptcy and returned to the land of his birth- the Piedmont of South Carolina. For which side did Will fight during the War? (UHS MDCAT 2023)

  1. East
  2. West
  3. North
  4. South
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Correct answer: (d) South

He returned to South Carolina, the land of his birth, so he had fought for the South.

3.Order is the law of civilization as chaos is the law of the ______. The most appropriate word to be filled in is: (KMU MDCAT 2024)

  1. City
  2. Metropolis
  3. Universe
  4. Wilderness
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Correct answer: (d) Wilderness

Civilization is set against the wild, so chaos belongs to the wilderness.

4.Blueprint is to architect as algorithm is to ______ (KMU MDCAT 2024)

  1. Designer
  2. Engineer
  3. Physician
  4. Programmer
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Correct answer: (d) Programmer

An architect works from a blueprint as a programmer works from an algorithm.

5."Revenge is a kind of wild justice." The sentence illustrates the use of: (KMU MDCAT 2025)

  1. Personification
  2. Pun
  3. Metaphor
  4. Hyperbole
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Correct answer: (c) Metaphor

Revenge is called justice without like or as, which makes it a metaphor.

6.What does "I've told you a million times" means? (SZABMU MDCAT 2025)

  1. To provide an exact count
  2. To emphasize frustration or impatience
  3. To confuse the listener
  4. To make the character sound foolish
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Correct answer: (b) To emphasize frustration or impatience

A million is not a count but an exaggeration, and it carries the speaker’s impatience.