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Verbal ability tests commonly include questions that test spelling of commonly misspelled words. Test designers can only use words that most candidates would reasonably be expected to know how to spell. This limits the pool of words that can be used, resulting in the same words appearing across different test providers. While different tests may frame the spelling questions differently, the core ability being tested is spelling those words correctly. Improving performance on spelling questions involves learning the 300 most commonly misspelled words found in the Verbal Reasoning eBook and practicing until those words can be spelled correctly.

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Spelling

Verbal ability tests commonly include questions that test spelling of commonly misspelled words. Test designers can only use words that most candidates would reasonably be expected to know how to spell. This limits the pool of words that can be used, resulting in the same words appearing across different test providers. While different tests may frame the spelling questions differently, the core ability being tested is spelling those words correctly. Improving performance on spelling questions involves learning the 300 most commonly misspelled words found in the Verbal Reasoning eBook and practicing until those words can be spelled correctly.

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Questions where you have to identify incorrectly spelt words are common in all levels of  verbal ability tests.

 The
test designer needs to choose commonly misspelled words which are in regular use, as it would be unfair to use
obscure words which only a small percentage of candidates could be expected to know.

This means that the test designer has a relatively restricted list of words to choose from and you will find that the
same words tend to appear in many different suppliers tests.

Many test suppliers frame their spelling questions in a different way to those in this practice test. For example:

1. Choose the pair of words that best completes the sentence.


 
The -------- of the timetable caused some ----------.
 
A) rivision       B) revision C) revission D) revition

A) inconvenience B) inconvenince C) inconveneince D)inconvenience


 
However, what is being tested here is your ability to spell these words correctly rather than anything else. Improving
your performance on these spelling questions is straightforward. The Verbal Reasoning eBook available from this
website contains the 300 most commonly used words for this type of test. If you work through the test papers
methodically and make a note of the ones you get wrong, it will give you a list of words that you need to learn to spell
correctly. These types of question appear in all levels of verbal ability tests.
 

This sample question paper contains 75 questions and has a suggested time limit of 10 minutes. The questions are
presented in Letter/A4 format for easy printing and self-marking.

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