CDS English · Teaching notes
CDS English — Teaching Notes
8 chapters of CDS English, written to be taught from directly or read alone. No chapter assumes you have read the others, so start wherever you are weakest. The question counts below are live, straight from the bank.
Chapters
Idioms and Phrases
Idioms and Phrases has 165 past-year questions in CDS English, about ten a paper in 17 of the 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026.
165 PYQs · 7 subtopicsCloze Test
Cloze Test has 174 past-year questions in CDS English: a passage with ten blanks, sometimes two passages, in 14 of the 20 sittings from 2017 to 2025.
174 PYQs · 6 subtopicsVocabulary
Vocabulary is the largest chapter in CDS English: 512 past-year questions in 19 of the 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026, about 300 of them synonyms and antonyms.
512 PYQs · 19 subtopicsGrammar
Grammar has 496 past-year questions in CDS English, in 18 of the 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026, asked in many shapes: name the part of speech, fill the blank, complete the sentence, change the voice or the speech.
496 PYQs · 19 subtopicsFill in the Blanks
Fill in the Blanks has 35 past-year questions in CDS English, from four sittings only: 2017 (I), 2019 (I), 2020 (II) and 2024 (I).
35 PYQs · 1 subtopicsSpotting Errors
Spotting Errors has 298 past-year questions in CDS English and appears in all 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026.
298 PYQs · 12 subtopicsSentence Rearrangement
Sentence Rearrangement has 432 past-year questions in CDS English, in all 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026, and more of them are rated hard than in any other English chapter.
432 PYQs · 14 subtopicsReading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension has 288 past-year questions in CDS English, in all 20 sittings from 2017 to 2026.
288 PYQs · 11 subtopics