Entrance Examinations: Last minute tips!
Punctuation Section.
Remember that if the section is a passage, then the lines will run over. Read it as a whole. It is essential to check the beginning and end of each line, just in case capital letters are wrongly used.
Capital Letters.
Proper nouns.
Places, names, titles, cities, countries….
Brackets and Speech Marks.
Make sure the are both open and closed.
Plurals
Do not need an apostrophe.
Check for possession, contraction.
Apostrophes.
Only for ownership or omission.
Commas.
In a list.
To differentiate clauses.
Never for a full stop.
Never before AND!
Full Colon
When using a LIST
Semi-colons or dashes.
Check they are not creating unnecessary pauses in the passage.
Spelling
IE
Belief
Relief
Field
Friend
Check your list of popular spelling mistakes.
Desperate
Irritable
Definite
Convinced
Beginning
Consequence
Temperature
Numbers
Fifteen
Forty
Fourteen
Consonants
Are they doubled?
Should they be double?
Should there be only one?
Until
Grateful
Full/lull
Approximately
Almost
Finish
Homophones….beware!
Our/are
Flour/flower
Where/wear
Hair/hare
Moor/more
Coarse/course
See/sea
Their/there/they’re
Ant/ent
Patient
Impatient
Restaurant
Distant
Prudent
Valiant
Ingredient
