MDCAT English
Nine questions, no literature. If your grammar is in order, these are the fastest marks on the paper.
English is a small section, around 9 questions, but they are quick to answer and just as quick to lose. A prepared candidate clears them in a few minutes and banks the marks.
It tests usage: grammar, sentence correction, vocabulary, comprehension. None of the poetry or essays from your FSc English books; nothing here needs memorising.
The traps are old friends. Prepositions. Subject-verb agreement with a phrase stuck in the middle. Confusable pairs like affect/effect and its/it's. Ten minutes of drills a day handles this section, and a weekend of cramming does not, because usage is a habit rather than information.
What’s covered in MDCAT English
- •Grammar & tenses
- •Sentence correction
- •Vocabulary — synonyms & antonyms
- •Prepositions & articles
- •Reading comprehension
- •Spelling & usage
Sample English MCQs
Have a go. Pick an answer and the explanation appears, exactly as it does inside the app.
How to prepare for MDCAT English
- ✓Revise the core grammar rules until they are boring.
- ✓A few new words a day, tested with MCQs, beats memorising long vocabulary lists in one sitting.
- ✓Go with the standard rule, not the option that merely sounds right. The paper is written to punish "sounds right".
MDCAT English: your questions
- How many English questions are on the MDCAT?
- About 9 of the 180.
- What does MDCAT English test?
- Grammar, sentence correction, vocabulary and comprehension. Standard usage rules, no literature.
- Is MDCAT English difficult?
- Not really, compared to the sciences. The marks people drop here come from rushing and from confusable word pairs, and short daily practice fixes both.
- How do I build vocabulary for the MDCAT quickly?
- Little and often. Learn a handful of synonym and antonym pairs a day, then re-test yourself with MCQs. The same words keep reappearing across papers, so practising real questions builds exactly the vocabulary the exam draws from.
Next steps: once you know where English fits, see the MDCAT score you actually need with the aggregate & merit calculator, check the full syllabus, or fit it into a 6-week plan.
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