MDCAT English Syllabus 2026 — 9 MCQs (5%)
English is a smaller slice of the MDCAT — 9 of 180 MCQs — but it's also the subject most students under-revise relative to how quickly it can be locked down. Grammar rules, vocabulary, and reading comprehension are all rule-based rather than content-heavy, which makes this syllabus short to work through in full.
Active-Passive Voice
- Imperative
- Modals
- Past Continuous
- Past Perfect
- Present Continuous
- Present Perfect
- Question
- Simple Future
- Simple Past
- Simple Present
Analogies
- Word Relations
Antonyms
- Antonyms
- General
Articles
- a/an/the
Choose the Correct Sentence
- Grammar
Direct-Indirect Speech
- Command
- Exclamation
- Question
- Request
- Statement
Formal and Lexical Aspect of Language
- Active and Passive Voice
- Adverb Position
- Contextual Vocabulary
- Direct and Indirect Speech
- Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
- Prepositions
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Punctuation
- Sentence Inversion
- Sentence Structure and Phrase Analysis
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Synonyms (Irony, Parody, Satire)
- Tenses
- Transitional Devices
Grammar
- Grammar
Idioms
- Idioms
Idioms and Phrases
- Meaning
One-Word Substitution
- General
Prepositions
- Prepositions
- Verb+Prep
Reading and Thinking Skills
- Deduce Meaning from Context
- Figurative Language Analysis
- Scan to Answer Short Questions
Sentence Correction
- Grammar
- Sentence Correction
Synonyms
- General
- Synonyms
Tenses
- Conditional
- Future
- Future Continuous
- Future Perfect
- Past
- Past Continuous
- Past Perfect
- Present
- Present Continuous
- Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Continuous
Vocabulary
- Vocabulary
Vocabulary in Context
- Fill Blank
Writing Skills
- Errors of Function and Spelling
- Faulty Sentence Structure
- Proofreading and Editing
- Sentence Structure and Phrase Analysis
- Subject-Verb Agreement