JIPMAT 2025 Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension Syllabus: Find Important Topics & Syllabus PDF

Reading Comprehension

• Business and Economics
• Science, Environment, and Technology
• Art and literary criticism
• Philosophy and Sociology
• History and Current Affairs

Vocabulary

• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• One-word Substitution
• Idioms
• Phrases
• Foreign Words
• Cloze Tests

Grammar

• Sentence Correction
• Connectors
• Spotting Errors
• Fill-in-the-Blanks

Verbal Reasoning

Parts of a Sentence/ Sentence Rearrangement (Para-jumbles)

Oceans and Territories

Ghosts & their mysteries how we can’t find their history

Software if more easy humans are not capable to get solutions)

Knowledge and Problems of Knowledge is a Scandal to Philosophy

A study of visualization

Lifestyle Comparison of Old and New Generations

Romanticism

American migration / urbanization increasing

Nanotechnology

Travel writing and feminism during colonial times

Comparison of South and North Korea, with a focus on clothing differences

Chinese Copy of articles

Indian History

Language Instinct

Piracy in international trade

Garments/ fashion Industry & Pollution- Easy to moderate

Two levels of emotional thinking

Mayan Civilization

Time Accuracy Entropy

The need for economic literacy in the general population

Netflix Dubbing of titles for Europe - Good or Bad for Europe?

STOICS

Utopia and Dystopia

Unconscious and Psychoanalysis

Screen time and undercurrents of social class

Liberalism is Dying- Moderate to Difficult

Music

Marshmallow Experiment

Anarchism

An analysis of human nature

Facts & Interpretation in History

Engineering technology

Evolution of Tea as a Drink

Migration of Northern Seals

British folk music

Colonialism and Pollution

Octopus

Language/ Indigenous People

Currency of Tang dynasty

Origin of story of Alladin

History

Philosophy

Why Fiction Trumps Truth

Investing in renewable energy technologies

Topophilia

Emperor penguins

Internet shopping and choice anxiety

Dense cities

Google and archaeology

Distributing bureaucracy

Language & culture

Passage on British colonial policy

Genetics

Grover snails

India’s view on its legacy of Second World War

Meritocracy and diversified teams

Plastic pollution

Elephant society

Consumer behaviour studies

Grover snails

Meritocracy and diversified teams

Use of technology in essential services

Rings of Saturn and their age

Human resource and learning

Digital rights of content (Streaming and DVD/Blu-ray)

Utopia and Dystopia

Why Liberalism Failed

Colonialism/ Nationalism

Why Fiction Trumps Truth

Colonialism and Global Warming

Social reorganization increasing crime rate

American migration/ urbanization increasing

Current economies of North and South Korea

Knowledge and Problems of Knowledge is a Scandal to Philosophy

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Synonyms

Two words or phrases in the same language with the same meaning

For example,

• ability - capability, competence, skill
• beautiful - attractive, pretty, lovely, stunning
• create - generate, make, produce
• difficult - grueling, hard, strenuous
• effective - functional, operational, successful
• fun - entertaining, enjoyable, pleasurable

Antonyms

A word with opposite meaning of another word that conveys a generally opposing idea, even if it is not the exact opposite of the original word

For example,

• hot and cold
• near and far
• tall and short
• quiet and noisy
• destroy and create
• divide and unite

Analogies

A comparison of two otherwise unlike things or dissimilar objects that have similar features and characteristics, based on how much they resemble each other on a particular aspect that are often used to help explain a principle or idea

For example,

• She’s as blind as a bat.
• You have to be as busy as a bee to get good grades in high school.
• Finding that lost dog will be like finding a needle in a haystack.

One Word Substitution

• Usage of a single word in place of a wordy phrase or longer sentence that expresses the same meaning in order to make the sentence structure clearer and more understandable
• The sentence becomes shorter, while the meaning remains identical with the replacement of the phrase

For example,

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one: Allegory
• The action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk: Blasphemy
• A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event: Souvenir
• A system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives: Bureaucracy
• A Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows: Convent

Idioms & Phrases

Idioms

• usage of figurative expression or a group of words to express an idea that cannot be understood literally or whose meaning is not directly related to the literal meaning of the individual words
• the meaning is not clear from individual words

Phrases

• two or more words that work together as a unit and can be a part of a sentence or they can be whole sentences themselves
• they do not contain a subject and a verb
• they have a literal meaning and clearer than idioms

For example,

• to be head over heels: to be very much in love
• to be in the same boat: to share the same problem or experience
• out of the blue: unexpectedly
• money doesn’t grow on trees: money is not easy to come by
• two heads are better than one: it’s easier to solve a problem when more than one person is working on it

Word Meanings & Usage

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Foreign Words

• a word adopted from another language and that can be pronounced and written differently in day to day life, speech and literature, and now considered as an integral part of the English Language
• they can be easily identified because they are written in either italic or under quotation

For example,

• Ad hoc
• Bona fide
• Bon Appétit
• Faux pas
• Status Quo
• Aficionado
• Bon Voyage
• Carte Blanche
• Modus operandi

Cloze Tests

• an amalgamation of ‘comprehension’ and ‘fill in the blanks’ which typically feature short passages with 4-5 fill-in-the-blank questions
• a procedure in which a subject is asked to supply words that have been removed from a passage as a test of their ability to read, analyze, comprehend text, and vocabulary skills are all tested at once
• multiple blanks will be provided and you must choose one correct answer from the given options appropriately and logically
• Also, multiple words can be found in bold in the passage and you need to replace it with another word from the given options

Parts of Speech

• Nouns: words used to name or identify a person, place, thing, or idea acting as the subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, and an object complement (Proper Nouns, Common nouns, Plural nouns, Collective Nouns, Abstract Nouns, Countable nouns, Uncountable nouns)
• Pronouns: a word or a group of words used in place of a noun or noun phrase to refer to people, things, concepts, and places to avoid repetition (Personal pronouns, Possessive pronouns, Reflexive pronouns, Demonstrative pronouns, Subject and object pronouns, Interrogative pronouns, Relative pronouns)
• Adjectives: a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun acting as the subject in a sentence, being placed right before a noun (Possessive Adjectives, Interrogative Adjectives, Demonstrative Adjectives, Compound Adjectives)
• Verbs: a word or group of words used to indicate a physical action, a mental action, an event or occurrence, or a state of being (Auxiliary Verbs/Helping Verbs, Phrasal Verbs, Modal Verbs, Linking Verbs, Transitive Verbs and Intransitive Verbs)
• Adverbs: a word that adds more information or is used to describe or modify a place, time, manner, cause, an adjective, a phrase, or degree to a verb, or another adverb (adverbs of manner, time, place, frequency, and degree)
• Prepositions: a word or phrase used before a noun or pronoun to connect or establish a relationship between a noun, pronoun, noun phrase to another word, especially to a verb, another noun, or an adjective to show the direction of something, to refer to the time of something happening, or to express various relationships such as the position or location of an object, time, direction, possession, etc. (Prepositions of Time, Prepositions of Place, Prepositions of Location, Prepositions of Direction, and Prepositions of Spatial Relationship)
• Conjunctions: a word used to join phrases, clauses, or other words in a sentence (Coordinating, Subordinating, and Correlative Conjunctions)
• Interjections: a word, phrase, or sound employed in a sentence to express a strong or sudden feeling or emotion other than meaning, such as surprise, pain, or horror, occurs as an utterance on its own, and is grammatically independent from the words around it.

For example,

1. Oh, what a beautiful house!
2. Uh-oh, this looks bad.
3. Well, it's time to say good night.

Tenses and Forms

Present, Past, Future, and Perfect Tenses

Connectors

words or phrases that connect ideas, sentences, clauses, or paragraphs to show relationships between different parts of a text, and create a smooth flow and logical progression of thought, serving specific functions such as adding information, contrasting ideas, or indicating cause and effect [conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or), transition words (e.g., however, therefore, moreover), and relative pronouns (e.g., who, which, that)]

Spotting of Errors

Recognizing and correcting grammatical errors in a given sentence or paragraph while proofreading them utilizing the already defined, systematic rules

Sentence completion

• completing an incomplete sentence using the correct, relevant, or most appropriate word
• the ability to fill in a blank sentence with the most effective or suitable word demonstrates the candidate’s mastery over vocabulary and skill to follow the logic of sentences
• a complete sentence must contain a subject and a verb, and the verb must be "finite"
• Restatement, Contrast, Comparison, Cause, and Effect are the various forms of sentence completeness.

Sentence Correction

Eliminating all grammatical errors from a sentence that contains a phrase or a word that requires grammatical changes or improvement