English practice exams for CXC English A exam- multiple choice paper 1

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CXC English A practice exams

Here is a sample of an actual CXC English A paper 1 exam. You can print this exam and keep it so you can get a sense of the kinds of questions that come in the exams.

An English practice multiple choice exam.

You have 15 multiple choice questions to complete. Read the directions at the start of the exam carefully. Get in the habit! You should time yourself according to CXC regulation timning which means that you have 5 minutes to read the passage and 1.50 seconds to answer each question. In total, you should spend no more than 28 minutes to answer all the questions.Time yourself!

A second set of English practice multiple choice exam. The same rules apply as the first one above.

A third set of English practice multiple choice exam. The same rules apply as the first one above.

A fourth set of English practice multiple choice exam. The same rules apply as the first one above.

A fifth set of English practice multiple choice exam. The same rules apply as the first one above.


Reading comprehension practice multiple choice exams

Here is a set of 10 reading comprehension questions to answer after reading the passage. Again, please read the directions at the beginnning of the exam carefully. (This will give you practice for your real CXC exams. Also Please use your CXC timing to complete the exam 10 minutes to read the passage and 1.50 minutes to answer each question. This means that you must complete the test in 25 minutes. Time yourtself!

A second set of reading comprehension exams to practice on. The same rules as the first one above applies here.

A third set of reading comprehension exams to practice on. The same rules as the first one above applies here.

A fourth set of reading comprehension exams to practice on. The same rules as the first one above applies here.

A fifth set of reading comprehension test items to practice on.

A sixth reading comprehension test. This is a full length reading comprehension test with 4 passages to read and 48 test questions to answer. Using our recommended time allowances,for CXC multiple choice exam, paper 1, you should complete this exercise in 82 minutes or an hour and 22 minutes (You get 10 minutes to read the passages).

Don't forget to click on "score test" when you have finished to see your score on the test

A seventh reading comprehension test. This is a full length reading comprehension test with 4 passages to read and 48 test questions to answer. Using our recommended time allowances,for CXC multiple choice exam, paper 1, you should complete this exercise in 82 minutes or an hour and 22 minutes (You get 10 minutes to read the passages).

Timed reading comprehension exercise - 10 questions.

Another timed reading comprehension exercise - 10 questions.

Same type of timed reading comprehension exercise - 10 questions.

Practice makes perfect so here is another timed reading comprehension exercises 10 questions.

A last timed reading comprehension exercise in this set.



The following are links to more pages with reading comprension and English grammar quizzes



Reading comprehension pages

Reading Comprehension exercises page 2
Reading Comprehension exercises page 3
Reading Comprehension exercises page 4
Reading Comprehension exercises page 5
Reading Comprehension exercises page 6
Reading Comprehension exercises page 7
Reading Comprehension exercises page 8
Reading Comprehension exercises page 9
Reading Comprehension exercises page 10



English grammar pages

English grammar exercises page 1
English grammar exercises page 2
English grammar exercises page 3
English grammar exercises page 4



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shaneee (not verified) 30 September 2009 - 7:50pm

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Waynebenn45 (not verified) 4 December 2009 - 11:02am

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DannyDred (not verified) 19 January 2010 - 6:19pm

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gobes (not verified) 20 February 2010 - 6:39pm

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Kathy-ann Daniel 21 February 2010 - 6:58am

In reply to by gobes (not verified)

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kay.huslin (not verified) 31 October 2010 - 6:17pm

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the fuhrer (not verified) 2 January 2011 - 11:01am

does any body knows when the January exam results come out? thanks

admin 2 January 2011 - 6:04pm

In reply to by the fuhrer (not verified)

The results for the CXC CSEC January exams are usually released around the end of the first week in March.

So you should start looking for the January exam results this year around the 7th March 2011.

susieq (not verified) 30 October 2012 - 2:55pm

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june joseph 2 November 2012 - 7:42pm

These multiple choice questions are cool, but they are very tricky. Hey, I think I've got it covered, though!

Gillian (not verified) 1 January 2020 - 4:20pm

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