DUET Part III Syllabus

DUET Part III: topic-wise syllabus

1. 1

   Reading Comprehension & Composition

   ~8 marks

   • Reading Comprehension — Factual, Inferential, Literary, Scientific, Social, Discursive, Argumentative, Narrative
   • Summary, Title, Central Idea, Inference, Drawing Conclusions, Précis
   • Composition — Letter (Formal, Informal, Business, Application), Report, Paragraph, Essay, Notice, Article, Précis
   • Note-Making, Comprehension Questions, Inference, Vocabulary from Context, Tone, Style
2. 2

   Grammar & Usage

   ~8 marks

   • Parts of Speech, Tenses, Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Determiners
   • Active/Passive Voice, Direct/Indirect Speech, Transformation
   • Sentence Correction, Spotting Errors, Sentence Improvement, Sentence Transformation, Rearrangement
   • Modals, Auxiliaries, Phrasal Verbs, Subject-Verb Agreement, Conditionals
   • Clauses, Phrases, Relative Pronouns, Punctuation, Concord
   • Fill in the Blanks, Cloze Test, Sentence Completion, Omission, Editing
3. 3

   Vocabulary

   ~6 marks

   • Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, Homonyms, Heteronyms
   • Idioms & Phrases, Proverbs, Sayings, One-word Substitution, Foreign Words
   • Word Formation, Roots, Affixes, Etymology, Spelling, Pronunciation, Confusables, Register
   • Analogies, Odd One Out, Word Pairs, Collocations, Connotation, Denotation
4. 4

   Verbal Ability

   ~3 marks

   • Para Jumbles, Sentence Rearrangement, Paragraph Completion, Odd Sentence Out
   • Cloze Test, Fill in the Blanks (with options), Sentence Completion
   • Functional Grammar, Editing, Omission, Dialogue Completion, Transformation