About the Module

Familiarity with English Language in its various nuances is an essential skill, especially in the current climate of global networking where English is the lingua franca of all major businesses. AMCAT English aims at determining the candidate’s ability to understand:

(a) the written text
(b) the spoken word and
(c) communicate effectively through written documents.

The test broadly covers the following areas:

1. A wide-ranging Vocabulary to cope with general and specific terminology


2. Syntax and sentence structure, the incorrect use of which distorts meaning and becomes a communication hurdle.


3. Comprehension exercises designed to test a candidate’s ability to read fluently and understand correctly.


4. The ability to understand and use suitable phrases, which enrich the meaning of what, is conveyed.

It has 25 multiple choice questions, which include word meaning questions, antonyms-synonyms questions, grammar questions and questions based on comprehension passages. The time allocated for the module is 25 minutes.

Relevance to Industry

A good grasp of the language enables employees to be more effective workers enhancing skills of communication as understanding instructions, writing e-mails, and expressing themselves. For employees dealing directly with the client, the importance of English cannot be understated as they have to effectively communicate with their client and leave a good impression.

Good English skills are fairly important for technical jobs including software and core engineering job. English is important not only to get your first job, but becomes indispensible as one grows up the corporate ladder as a team manager, project manager and takes client facing roles.

Business consultants require immaculate written and spoken English skills. They need fine articulation to communicate with global clients both through written and spoken medium.

Knowledge-process-outsourcing companies where the candidate has to read a lot of reports, write documents, proposals, etc. require even sharper command over English. Corporate sales and marketing jobs also require high standards of English to be able to effectively communicate with corporate clients. Business Process Outsourcing companies do not require very good written English skills, but very good spoken English skills is a must for them.

Tips and tricks to improve English

• Grammar: Grammar is the most essential part of the language and it is the first step towards mastering one. Some useful sources in mastering grammar are:
  1. Grammar Games – http://www.manythings.org/e/grammar.html
  2. High School English Grammar and Composition by Wren And Martin


• Vocabulary: A vital element in communicating effectively is vocabulary. Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis is a good source on learning words from their roots. Another way to improving your vocabulary is underlining and writing down the difficult words you encounter while reading and looking them up in the dictionary at the end of the day.


• Fluency: No matter how much you study the basic entities of a language you can only be fluent in it if you practice it regularly. Read newspaper editorials and novels on a regular basis. Write short stories and paragraphs and get them checked by a credible person. Keep in touch with the language


• Corrections: The key to excel at anything is to learn from your mistakes. Useful resources about the common avoidable errors in English are widely available on the internet. For example:  http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/


• Application: Another way to polish your language skills is to incorporate them in your life. Conversing in English will not only provide you with fluency but also allow to effective apply what you learn.