15. Advanced Mixed Practice Set II (40 Questions)

This shorter, second practice set is calibrated slightly harder than the 100-question set in Section 7, mixing categories more freely within a single sentence and leaning more heavily on the subtler traps from Section 4. Use it as a final checkpoint after completing the drill plan in Section 9, or as a mid-course check after Week 3.

1. (A) One of the most important qualities / (B) that a good officer must possess / (C) are patience and impartiality. / (D) No error
2. (A) The panel was impressed / (B) by his proficiency at / (C) handling difficult questions calmly. / (D) No error
3. (A) Neither the clerk / (B) nor the accountant / (C) were available to verify the entry. / (D) No error
4. (A) She has been / (B) working as a scribe / (C) since the past two examination cycles. / (D) No error
5. (A) Having reviewed the entire file, / (B) the discrepancy / (C) was finally noticed by the auditor. / (D) No error
6. (A) The number of grievances received / (B) this month / (C) are noticeably higher than last month. / (D) No error
7. (A) He is not only responsible / (B) for scheduling / (C) but also for conducting the mock interviews. / (D) No error
8. (A) The revised guidelines / (B) are entirely different than / (C) what was circulated earlier. / (D) No error
9. (A) Each of the trainees / (B) were given / (C) a personalised feedback report. / (D) No error
10. (A) The committee discussed / (B) the past history / (C) of similar complaints before reaching a decision. / (D) No error
11. (A) Comparing to last year's results, / (B) this year's pass percentage / (C) has improved significantly. / (D) No error
12. (A) The two candidates performed / (B) equally well, / (C) though one was more nervous than the other. / (D) No error
13. (A) She was praised for her patience, / (B) discipline, / (C) and because she remained calm under pressure. / (D) No error
14. (A) The scheme benefits both fresh graduates / (B) as well as / (C) mid-career professionals seeking a switch. / (D) No error
15. (A) Realising the mistake too late, / (B) the report / (C) had to be resubmitted by the analyst. / (D) No error
16. (A) A large amount of / (B) grievances were resolved / (C) within the first week of the campaign. / (D) No error
17. (A) He is capable of solving / (B) even the trickiest puzzles / (C) within a very short time. / (D) No error
18. (A) The two shortlisted vendors / (B) submitted / (C) the exact same quotation for the printing contract. / (D) No error
19. (A) Every officer, along with their assistant, / (B) was required / (C) to attend the mandatory briefing. / (D) No error
20. (A) The training was designed / (B) to reduce errors and improving / (C) overall efficiency across departments. / (D) No error
21. (A) Neither the applicant / (B) nor the referee / (C) has submitted the required documents yet. / (D) No error
22. (A) She was disappointed / (B) that the results were / (C) more worse than she had expected. / (D) No error
23. (A) The syllabus committee will / (B) shortly precede / (C) with finalising the revised curriculum. / (D) No error
24. (A) Having completed the audit, / (B) the findings / (C) were presented to the board by the team lead. / (D) No error
25. (A) He gave a piece of / (B) useful feedbacks / (C) to every intern in the department. / (D) No error
26. (A) The clerk verified the documents / (B) and returned it / (C) to the applicant within minutes. / (D) No error
27. (A) One of the reasons for the frequent delays / (B) is the outdated / (C) verification software still in use. / (D) No error
28. (A) The two reports were / (B) largely similar with / (C) each other in tone and structure. / (D) No error
29. (A) Rarely does the department / (B) revise its policy / (C) without extensive internal consultation. / (D) No error
30. (A) The intern was asked / (B) to discuss about / (C) his findings at the weekly review meeting. / (D) No error
31. (A) A number of applications / (B) has been rejected / (C) for incomplete documentation this cycle. / (D) No error
32. (A) The officer, / (B) who they believed / (C) had mishandled the case, was suspended. / (D) No error
33. (A) The two-day workshop / (B) covers both drafting official letters / (C) and how to manage difficult clients. / (D) No error
34. (A) Despite of the heavy workload, / (B) she completed / (C) the audit ahead of schedule. / (D) No error
35. (A) The manager insisted / (B) that the report be revised / (C) before the deadline, and he was right in insisting so. / (D) No error
36. (A) The revised norms apply / (B) to whomever joins / (C) the department after the first of April. / (D) No error
37. (A) His explanation, / (B) though brief, / (C) were sufficient to clear the panel's doubts. / (D) No error
38. (A) The two-member committee / (B) has reviewed / (C) the case thoroughly before submitting their report. / (D) No error
39. (A) The clerk's careless handling / (B) of the file / (C) resulted into a major delay in disbursement. / (D) No error
40. (A) Having weighed all the evidence carefully, / (B) a fair decision / (C) was reached by the disciplinary committee. / (D) No error

Advanced Set II — Answer Key

1. (C) — the true subject is "one," singular; should be "is patience and impartiality."
2. (D) No error — "proficiency at" is an accepted alternative collocation alongside "proficient in," and the sentence is otherwise clean.
3. (C) — "neither...nor" takes the verb agreeing with the nearer subject, "accountant" (singular); should be "was available."
4. (C) — "since the past two examination cycles" should be "for the past two examination cycles."
5. (B) — dangling modifier; "the discrepancy" cannot review a file — should be restructured with "the auditor" as the logical subject, e.g., "...the auditor finally noticed the discrepancy."
6. (C) — "number...are" should be "is noticeably higher," since "number" is the singular subject.
7. (D) No error — "not only...but also" correctly joins two parallel prepositional phrases.
8. (B) — "different than" should be "different from."
9. (B) — "each...were given" should be "was given."
10. (B) — "past history" is redundant; should be simply "history."
11. (A) — "Comparing to" should be "Compared with," to correctly frame the opening participial phrase as a genuine comparison between two years' results.
12. (D) No error — the comparison is correctly and completely formed throughout.
13. (C) — "and because she remained calm" breaks parallelism with the nouns "patience" and "discipline"; should be a matching noun phrase such as "and composure."
14. (B) — "both...as well as" is a broken pair; should be "both...and mid-career professionals."
15. (B) — dangling modifier; "the report" cannot realise a mistake — should be restructured with "the analyst" as the subject.
16. (A) — "a large amount of grievances" should be "a large number of," since "grievances" is countable.
17. (D) No error — "capable of solving" is correctly formed.
18. (C) — "the exact same" is redundant; should be simply "the same quotation."
19. (A) — "every officer, along with their assistant" mixes the singular "every officer" with the plural possessive "their"; strict formal usage expects "his or her assistant."
20. (B) — "to reduce errors and improving" breaks parallelism; should be "and to improve," or "reducing errors and improving," matching forms throughout.
21. (D) No error — "neither...nor" correctly takes the singular verb agreeing with the nearer subject, "referee."
22. (C) — "more worse" is a double comparative; should be simply "worse."
23. (B) — "precede" should be "proceed."
24. (B) — dangling modifier; "the findings" cannot complete an audit — should be restructured with "the team lead" as the subject of the opening phrase.
25. (B) — "feedbacks" is an incorrect plural of the uncountable noun "feedback"; should be "useful feedback."
26. (B) — pronoun-antecedent mismatch; "it" should be "them," agreeing with the plural "the documents."
27. (D) No error — "one of the reasons...is" correctly gives the verb agreeing with the singular "one."
28. (B) — "similar with" should be "similar to."
29. (D) No error — "Rarely does the department" is a correctly inverted structure following the fronted negative adverb "Rarely."
30. (B) — "discuss about" is redundant; should be simply "discuss his findings."
31. (B) — "a number of applications" functions as a plural quantifying phrase and takes a plural verb; should be "have been rejected," not "has been rejected."
32. (D) No error — "who," correctly the subject of the embedded clause "who...had mishandled the case," is unaffected by the parenthetical "they believed."
33. (D) No error — "both drafting official letters and how to manage difficult clients" are both acceptable as parallel noun-clause objects of "covers," matching the register seen in Section 3.6, Example 4.
34. (A) — "despite of" is always wrong; should be "despite the heavy workload" or "in spite of the heavy workload."
35. (D) No error — the sentence, though slightly informal in tone, is grammatically clean throughout.
36. (B) — "whomever" should be "whoever," since it functions as the subject of the embedded clause "whoever joins the department," not as the object of "to."
37. (C) — "explanation...were sufficient" should be "was sufficient," agreeing with the singular subject "explanation."
38. (C) — "their report" mismatches the singular "the two-member committee" treated as one unit; should be "its report."
39. (C) — "resulted into" should be "resulted in."
40. (B) — dangling modifier; "a fair decision" cannot weigh evidence — should be restructured with "the disciplinary committee" as the subject of the opening phrase.