MDCAT English — Writing Skills
Writing Skills is a core English topic in the PMDC MDCAT syllabus, covering 5 subtopics. Below are the subtopics to revise, how often the topic appears in past papers, and real past-paper MCQs to try.
Subtopics (5)
- Errors of Function and Spelling
- Faulty Sentence Structure
- Proofreading and Editing
- Sentence Structure and Phrase Analysis
- Subject-Verb Agreement
How Writing Skills is tested
Across the 16 MDCAT past papers on ParhaiKrlo, Writing Skills accounts for 83 questions. It appears in 10 of them, about 8.3 questions a paper. The heaviest was MDCAT 2010, with 16 questions, and the most recent is MDCAT 2025, with 2.
| Paper | Questions |
|---|---|
| MDCAT 2025 | 2 |
| MDCAT 2024 | 1 |
| MDCAT 2018 | 6 |
| MDCAT 2015 | 6 |
| MDCAT 2013 | 7 |
| MDCAT 2012 | 8 |
| MDCAT 2011 | 6 |
| MDCAT 2010 | 16 |
| MDCAT 2009 | 16 |
| MDCAT 2008 | 15 |
Writing Skills MCQs from the MDCAT past papers
Try each one before opening the answer. Each comes with a short explanation.
- Q1 · MDCAT 2025 · Writing Skills
Which of the following sentences has correct subject-verb agreement?
- A.The teacher give the students homework.
- B.The teacher gives the students homework.
- C.The teachers gives the student homework.
- D.The teachers given the student homework.
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Answer: B. The teacher gives the students homework. — "The teacher gives the students homework" has correct subject-verb agreement.
- Q2 · MDCAT 2024 · Writing Skills
Choose the CORRECT spellings.
- A.Pharaoh
- B.Pharoah
- C.Pheroh
- D.Pheraoh
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Answer: A. Pharaoh — 'Pharaoh' is the correct spelling of the ancient Egyptian ruler's title.
- Q3 · MDCAT 2018 · Writing Skills
SPOT THE ERROR — The most important and the most difficult thing to achieve is a desire between individuals to limit the size of family.
- A.The most important
- B.the most difficult thing to achieve
- C.is a desire
- D.between individuals
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Answer: D. between individuals — 'Between individuals' should be 'among individuals' — 'between' is reserved for exactly two, while 'among' is used for a general group.