Reading Comprehension
NTA's own syllabus heading, quoted from the CUET (UG) 2026 syllabus. Where this comes from
NTA's heading: Reading Comprehension
NTA's English syllabus is one page. It names two skill areas: Reading Comprehension, with three kinds of passage of at most 300 words each (factual, narrative and literary), and Verbal Ability, with four item types (rearranging the parts, match the following, choosing the correct word, synonyms and antonyms). It says the questions are not limited to these, and prints no chapters and no split of the 50 questions. So the chapters here are ours. Reading is split by the kind of passage, because a poem is not read the way a report is. Verbal Ability is split into three areas of our own: Vocabulary, Sentence & paragraph order, and Grammar & usage. Where a chapter covers something past NTA's short list, it says so, and it is there because the papers since 2022 have asked it.
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16 questions · 20 minutes
Drawn from all 4 chapters below, marked +5 / −1 like the real paper
Chapters
Factual passages
Science, places and how things work, read for facts and what follows
Narrative passages
Stories and accounts: what happened, and why people acted as they did
Literary passages
Extracts from novels, essays and speeches, and what the writer means
Poems and conversations
Poems and dialogues: mood, figures of speech, who means what