General English · Vocabulary · Topic 05 · Worksheet
Spellings
Thirty multiple choice questions on spellings, the last topic in the Vocabulary track. Three previous year questions are included in Section C, with an answer key at the end.
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35 minsuggested time
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Before you begin
Formulas you will need
Key formulasi before e except after c: believe, achieve, receive, deceive Doubled letters worth memorising: accommodation, occurrence, millennium, unnecessary, possession supersede is the only common word ending in -sede French loan words keep their original spelling: rendezvous, bourgeois, liaison, entrepreneur, bureau, questionnaire
How to use this worksheet. AAI favours French loan words — two of the three previous year questions here are exactly that, and they look wrong to an English eye by design. And in an INCORRECTLY-spelt question, look for the definite mistake rather than the option that merely looks unfamiliar.
Section A · Level 1
Choosing the correct spelling
Ten questions. Watch the doubled letters.
Q1
Select the correctly spelt word.
Occurrence takes double c, double r and ends in -ence. Both doublings are needed.
Q2
Select the correctly spelt word.
Accommodation has double c and double m — it accommodates two of each.
Q3
Select the correctly spelt word.
Privilege has no d and takes an e in the middle syllable.
Q4
Select the correctly spelt word.
Maintenance drops the i of maintain and ends in -ance.
Q5
Select the correctly spelt word.
Definitely contains the word finite, which is a useful way to remember it.
Q6
Select the correctly spelt word.
Separate has a rat in the middle — sep-a-rat-e.
Q7
Select the correctly spelt word.
Perseverance ends in -ance and has no extra r.
Q8
Select the correctly spelt word.
Conscious keeps the sc of science.
Q9
Select the correctly spelt word.
Receive follows the rule: i before e except after c.
Q10
Select the correctly spelt word.
Millennium has double l and double n, from mille thousand and annus year.
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Section B · Level 2
Finding the incorrect spelling
Ten questions. Read all four before deciding.
Q11
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be believe — i before e except after c.
Q12
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be achieve.
Q13
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be entrepreneur, with no letter between the t and the r of the first syllable.
Q14
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be possession, which has four s letters in two pairs.
Q15
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Consensus is correct and concensus is wrong. It relates to consent, not to census.
Q16
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be fulfil, with a single l in each syllable in British spelling.
Q17
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Pronunciation is correct. It drops the o of pronounce, which is why the wrong form looks so plausible.
Q18
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be grammar, ending in -ar.
Q19
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be bureaucracy, keeping the -eau- of bureau.
Q20
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Mischievous is correct, with three syllables. The extra i is a very common error.
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Section C · Previous year questions and loan words
Straight from the AAI ATC papers
Ten questions. Three are real previous year questions.
Q21PYQ 2021 · Shift 3
Select the correctly spelt word.
Rendezvous is a French loan word and keeps its original spelling. Break it into three parts — ren-dez-vous — and the letters fall into place. Loan words such as this, bureau and liaison keep spellings that look wrong to an English eye, which is exactly why they are set.
Q22PYQ 2025 · Shift 1
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
The correct spelling is bourgeois. Like rendezvous it is a French loan word, and once again the borrowed spelling is what the question is testing. The other three are correct, including unnecessary with its double n and double s.
Q23PYQ 2025 · Shift 2
Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
It should be supersede, which is the only common English word ending in -sede. Note that acknowledgment is acceptable without the middle e, so it is not the error here — a reminder to look for the definite mistake rather than the unfamiliar-looking word.
Q24
Select the correctly spelt word.
Supersede comes from the Latin sedere, to sit. It is the counterpart of the previous question.
Q25
Select the correctly spelt word.
Bourgeois is the correct masculine and general form.
Q26
Select the correctly spelt word.
Liaison keeps two i letters, one on each side of the a.
Q27
Select the correctly spelt word.
Questionnaire takes a double n, following the French pattern.
Q28
Select the correctly spelt word.
Entrepreneur is another French borrowing, and every wrong option here rearranges its vowels.
Q29
Select the correctly spelt word.
Guarantee begins gua-, like guard.
Q30
Select the correctly spelt word.
Acknowledge contains the whole word knowledge.
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Answer key
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