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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (A) مذکر
In Urdu ‘akhbar’ is masculine, which is why one says ‘akhbar aaya’.
Correct answer: (C) مؤنث
‘Nadi’ is feminine, which is why the sentence has ‘utarti hai’.
Correct answer: (B) مؤنث
‘Kitab’ is feminine—hence ‘kitab achhi hai’.
Correct answer: (B) فعل
In ‘khel rahe hain’ the word ‘khel’ shows the action happening, so it is a verb.
Correct answer: (C) آغاز
The word whose opposite is asked for here means ‘low’, so its contrary is ‘bulandi’, height.
Correct answer: (A) فاعل
The word denoting the doer of an action is the ‘fa'il’, the subject; the one acted upon is the ‘maf'ul’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘Nazm’ means both order and arrangement, so the answer is ‘more than one’. The ‘nazm’ of poetry comes from this same sense of order.
Correct answer: (A) درزی
‘Darzi’ names the one who does the work, so it is an example of the active participle (ism-e-fa'il).
Correct answer: (D) حسب بالا میں سے ایک سے زائد
A numeral adjective states a definite number—‘das khawateen’ and ‘chaar betiyan’ are both of that kind, so the answer is ‘more than one’. ‘Chand kitaben’ gives an indefinite number.
Correct answer: (D) حسب بالا میں سے ایک سے زائد
The rhyme words are those whose closing sounds agree. Here ‘jahan’ and ‘imtihan’ are both rhymes, and ‘aur bhi hain’ is the refrain. So the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) کہاوت
‘Maan na maan main tera mehman’ is a complete saying carrying folk experience, so it is a proverb, not an idiom.
Correct answer: (A) فقرہ
A group of words that carries sense but does not complete a statement is a ‘fiqra’; the group that completes it is a ‘jumla’.
Correct answer: (B) آغاز
Urdu short fiction is a product of the beginning of the twentieth century—it is taken to start with Premchand and his contemporaries.
Correct answer: (B) فعل حال
‘Mushtaq hoon’ states a condition holding right now—neither past nor yet to come. So it is fe'l-e-haal, a verb in the present tense.
The Commission's key gives (C), the future tense, but ‘hoon’ is a present form, not a future one; option (B) is shown here for that reason.
Correct answer: (B) Gandhiji the father of the nation was, assassinated in 1948.
‘Kitab’ is feminine, so the verb takes the feminine form too—‘padhi jati hai’. Hence ‘achhi kitab bar bar padhi jati hai’ is correct.
Correct answer: (A) The trees are elongated (masculine form).
‘Aaj school band hai’ is the plain and correct sentence; the other two are awkwardly constructed.
Correct answer: (B) بستی بسانا کھیل نہیں، بستے بستے بستی ہے
The second line of the couplet is ‘basti basana khel nahin, baste baste basti hai’, which matches the rhyme and metre of the first.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The word whose meaning is asked for means ‘very active, hard-working’. Cloud, smoke and lamentation are all wrong, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (C) مبالغہ
Overstating a condition or quality in speech is called ‘mubalagha’, that is, hyperbole.
Correct answer: (B) بیانیہ جملہ
This sentence conveys a piece of information, so it is a declarative (bayaniya) sentence.
Correct answer: (E) حسب بالا میں سے کوئی نہیں
Each stanza of a musaddas has six lines—the name itself comes from ‘sitt’, six. All three numbers given are wrong.
Correct answer: (C) اور
‘Aur’ joins the two words, so it is the conjunction.
Correct answer: (A) پر
‘Par’ links the table to the action, so it is the postposition.
Correct answer: (A) The trees are elongated (masculine form).
‘Be-intiha’ means exceedingly, and ‘barish’ is feminine, so the verb is ‘ho rahi hai’—‘aaj be-intiha barish ho rahi hai’ is correct.
Correct answer: (B) سابقہ
Letters or words placed before a meaningful word are called ‘sabiqa’, a prefix—the ‘be’ of ‘be-khabar’, for instance.
Correct answer: (E) حسب بالا میں سے کوئی نہیں
‘Aankhen bhar aana’, ‘baghlen jhankna’ and ‘bagh bagh hona’ are all idioms, not proverbs, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (C) آستین کا سانپ ہونا
‘Aasteen ka saanp hona’ is an idiom, since it takes its sense inside a sentence. The other two are complete proverbs.
Correct answer: (C) اسمِ فاعل
A name given from an occupation is called ism-e-fa'il—tailor, blacksmith, goldsmith.
Correct answer: (C) فاعل
In ‘Ahmed is reading a book’ the doer is Ahmed, so he is the fa'il, the subject.
Correct answer: (B) کنیت
A name that becomes known through the family is called ‘kunniyat’.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘Qamar’ means the moon, and hilal, badr and mahtab are all names or phases of the moon, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (C) جمع
When there is more than one of something it is called ‘jama’, the plural.
Correct answer: (A) صفت
A word showing the good, bad or distinctive quality of a noun is a ‘sifat’, an adjective.
Correct answer: (E) حسب بالا میں سے کوئی نہیں
Words alike in meaning are called ‘mutaradif’, synonyms—and that word is not among the options at all. ‘Mutazad’ is for words of opposite meaning, ‘ham-wazn’ for those of the same metre and ‘ham-shakl’ for those that look alike.
The Commission's key gives (A), ‘mutazad’, but that names words of opposite meaning, not alike ones. The right word, ‘mutaradif’, is not among the options, so ‘None of the above’ is shown here.
Correct answer: (B) تخلص
The separate name a poet uses in his poetry is called a ‘takhallus’—‘Ghalib’, ‘Iqbal’.
Correct answer: (A) اسم
The name of a person, place, thing or quality is an ‘ism’, a noun.
Correct answer: (C) Indeed, the trees are tall (feminine plural form).
‘Main’ goes with ‘ja raha hoon’—only this sentence matches subject to verb correctly.
Correct answer: (A) ہمالہ
The Himalaya lies to the north of India and forms the country's northern boundary.
Correct answer: (C) ہوائی جہاز
The sentence opens with ‘nowadays’ and speaks of today's swift means of travel, so ‘aeroplane’ fits.
Correct answer: (B) پانی پانی
‘Sharm se pani-pani hona’ is an idiom meaning to be deeply embarrassed.
Correct answer: (A) آج بہت تیز دھوپ ہے۔
‘Aaj bahut tez dhoop hai’ is the plain and correct sentence. ‘Bahut sara’ does not go with ‘dhoop’, which is feminine.
Correct answer: (B) شر
‘Khair’ means good, so its antonym is ‘shar’, evil.
Correct answer: (B) مؤنث
‘Hawa’ is feminine—hence ‘hawa chal rahi hai’.
Correct answer: (C) رگھوپتی سہائے
Firaq Gorakhpuri's real name was Raghupati Sahay; ‘Firaq’ was his pen name.
Correct answer: (A) میں دو منٹ میں آیا
‘Main do minute mein aaya’ is everyday speech (rozmarra)—the colloquial turn in which a past form carries a future sense. Of the others one is a proverb and one an idiom.
Correct answer: (B) ضرورت مند
In ‘zaroorat-mand’ the ‘mand’ comes after the word, so it is an example of a suffix. ‘Be-khabar’ and ‘ham-jamaat’ carry prefixes.
Correct answer: (A) To boast
‘Abas’ means useless or in vain.
Correct answer: (A) فعل حال
An action happening at this moment is called fe'l-e-haal, a verb in the present tense.
Correct answer: (A) واحد
When there is only one of something it is called ‘wahid’, the singular.
Correct answer: (B) مقفیٰ
Prose without metre but rhyming at the end is called ‘muqaffa’.