Civil Service Grammar Practice Test Results

Question 1
60% answer correctly
Which of the following sentences is not gramatically correct?
Did the storm affect your business?
What effect did the storm have on your business?
The bright sun is affecting my eyes and making it difficult to drive.
Don`t allow your negative opinion of his wife to effect your opinion of him.
Question 2
47% answer correctly
Which of the following sentences is gramatically correct?
It takes upto eight hours to prepare a meal for that many people.
After seeing the lions at the zoo, we moved onto the monkeys.
Put the biscuit in to the basket.
All of his books turned into best sellers.
Question 3
36% answer correctly
Which one of these sentences is not gramatically correct?
The earliest recorded evidence is from 29 BC.
The reign of Caesar was from 63 BC to AD 14.
Did the new millenium begin in 2000 AD or 2001 AD?
The empire collapsed in AD 1054.