Class 8 English Entry Test MCQs — Free Online Practice
Free Class 8 English entry-test MCQs with worked answers — below are 8 questions drawn from our bank of 227 English questions. Grammar, vocabulary, sentence correction and comprehension the way the paper sets them.
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The Class 7/8 entry test pattern the colleges publish: 100 MCQs in 90 minutes, 1 mark each, no negative marking reported — Maths 25 · English 20 · General Science 25 · Islamiat 5 · Urdu 10 · Intelligence 15.
Free sample English MCQs (with answers)
1. Choose the correct preposition: "I slept ___ six o'clock."
- A. in
- B. on
- C. since
- D. until
Correct answer: D
Use "until" to mark a limit in time: "I slept until six o'clock (and then woke up)".
2. Choose the word closest in meaning to 'enormous'.
- A. angry
- B. tiny
- C. huge
- D. afraid
Correct answer: C
Enormous means extremely large in size — its closest synonym is 'huge'. 'Tiny' is the opposite, and 'angry' and 'afraid' describe feelings, not size.
3. Which adjective is correctly formed from the noun 'storm'?
- A. stormish
- B. stormy
- C. stormen
- D. stormly
Correct answer: B
Many weather nouns form adjectives with -y: storm → stormy, rain → rainy, cloud → cloudy.
4. Neither of the boys ______ his homework.
- A. has done
- B. were doing
- C. have done
- D. are doing
Correct answer: A
"Neither" is singular, so it takes "has done".
5. Choose the correct preposition: "I received a present ___ Juliet."
- A. to
- B. of
- C. for
- D. from
Correct answer: D
Use "from" to show the source or giver of something: "a present from Juliet".
6. Choose the correct preposition: "There is a bus stop ___ the end of the road."
- A. on
- B. by
- C. at
- D. in
Correct answer: C
Use "at" for a point: "at the end of the road".
7. Choose correct: Each of the boys ______ present.
- A. was
- B. is being
- C. has been
- D. were
Correct answer: A
With 'each of', the verb agrees with 'each' (singular) → was.
8. The idiom "to call a spade a spade" means:
- A. to decide arbitrarily
- B. to speak bluntly and directly
- C. to dig up old disputes
- D. to hide the truth
Correct answer: B
The idiom means speaking plainly, without euphemism.
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