Verbal is the section BCA and B.Sc candidates most often under-prepare for, and the one where marks are cheapest — grammar rules are finite. Eight questions covering synonyms, antonyms, indirect speech, reading comprehension, sentence completion, error spotting, prepositions and formal register, all verified and explained.
Choose the word closest in meaning to EFFACE.
Change into indirect speech: They said, "We have lived in this city for many years."
Passage: After losing six battles, Robert Bruce, the king of Scotland, hid in a cave in despair. There he watched a spider try to fling its thread across a gap to anchor its web. Six times the thread fell short. On the seventh attempt it held, and the spider finished its web. Bruce took heart, gathered his men once more, and won his next battle. Which assertion is best supported by the passage?
The boy was too lazy to even move about during the day; in other words, he was ________.
Choose the best antonym of DISMAL.
One part of the sentence may contain an error. Identify it: "Since sunrise to sunset / my grandmother would sit by her wheel / spinning and reciting prayers."
Select the most appropriate pair of words: "While MSMEs are waiting ____ the release ____ around Rs. five lakh crore of pending payments, no major relief has come their way so far."
Which of the following sentences does NOT use informal language?
The rules that cover most of the paper
- Tense shift in indirect speech — present → past, present perfect → past perfect, will → would; pronouns change to the third person.
- Prepositional pairs — from … to (not since … to), wait for, consist of, comply with, prefer … to, different from.
- Subject–verb agreement — singular subject, singular verb; "either … or" agrees with the nearer subject.
- Voice — continuous tenses become "is / was being + past participle"; keep the tense of the original.
- Word class in blanks — decide first whether the blank needs a noun, verb or adjective; it eliminates two options instantly.
Reading comprehension and the essay
One passage with 3–4 questions appears in most WILP papers. Read the questions first, answer the factual ones, then the "best supported assertion" type — the correct option restates the passage's point without adding anything. The formal-register question above is a reminder that the written communication test is marked on the same skill: see the Wipro essay-writing guide.
More Wipro verbal items — Nadir, Mitigate, Atrocious, Sleaze, the conditional "Were you a bird…" — are on the Wipro verbal ability page; none of them repeat here.