English carries about a third of HCL CAT and also decides how you come across in the Versant test and the interview. Eight questions — prepositions, sentence completion, error spotting, synonyms and antonyms — at the level the test actually uses.
Fill in the blank with the most suitable option: "It must have been he who has sent this email ______ Mark."
Identify the part of the sentence that contains an error: "Students that need assistance with university applications can take instant help from the Guidance Department."
Just as we hope to be forgiven, so we should ______ others.
Identify the part with the error: "She have been looking for her lost watch for two hours but she did not find it."
Identify the part with the error: "Last month, the organization announces 'Take your children to work day', in an attempt to build employees' morale."
One part of the sentence contains an error. Identify it: "Something about the way he spoke stuck a bell in Lauren's mind."
Choose the word most nearly SIMILAR in meaning to: EMANCIPATE
Choose the word most nearly SIMILAR in meaning to: DILIGENT
Five grammar rules that cover most error-spotting questions
- Subject–verb agreement: he/she/it takes has, does, is, was; they/we take have, do, are, were.
- Time words fix the tense: yesterday / last month / in 2025 → simple past; since / for → perfect tense.
- Countable vs uncountable: many books, much sugar; fewer people, less water.
- Prepositions after verbs: send to, listen to, wait for, consist of, depend on, prefer … to.
- Between two, among many.
Vocabulary for the test and the essay
Learn ten words a day with an opposite for each: diligent / lazy, serene / turbulent, dismal / cheerful, abundant / sparse, lethargic / energetic. In the essay, plain correct English beats ambitious vocabulary with errors; write short sentences and paragraph breaks.
For Versant, practise speaking English daily — read a news paragraph aloud, record it, and listen back. See the selection process page for the Versant format.