Mawhiba Level 2 Complete Review Guide 2026–2027

4. With two blanks: try the whole option in both blanks together; the first may fit while the second does not, which rules the option out.
5. Skip the words you do not know first and eliminate the options that contradict the sentence; often one option is left even if you do not know every word.
6. In contextual error the sentence holds two linked ideas: ask whether the word fits the other idea. Example: 'he took an umbrella because the sky was clear' - the contradicting word is 'clear'.
7. Synonyms are close in meaning but can differ in strength; 'furious' is stronger than 'annoyed', so notice how strong the word is in the sentence.
8. A word with several meanings is understood from the sentence: it may be a body part or a spring of water; read what comes before and after it.
9. In word classification there is often more than one possible basis; the one you want is the basis that makes exactly one word different.
10. Reading order: question, passage, then back to the supporting sentence. Do not try to memorise the passage; it stays on screen the whole time.
11. The main idea is what every paragraph is about; it covers the details and is never itself one of the details.
12. A question like 'which cannot be inferred' has three options the passage supports and one it does not; check each option separately.
13. A question on the writer's purpose is answered by what the passage does: explain, compare, tell a story or argue a view.
14. Word meaning in a passage: substitute the option for the word and reread the sentence; it must still make sense.
15. Time: about 75 seconds per question on average (120 minutes for 96 questions); read a long passage once with focus and answer its two or three questions together.

Common mistakes in this chapter

• ✕ Picking a pair from the same topic with a different relation: 'doctor : hospital' and 'doctor : medicine' are both about medicine, but only the first is a job and its workplace.
• ✕ Reversing the order of the pair: if the relation is part : whole, a pair written whole : part is wrong even when the two words are right.
• ✕ Ignoring the linking word: 'although the weather was cold' needs an opposite idea, and students fall for the option that agrees with the cold.
• ✕ Choosing the word that sounds nicest rather than the one the meaning needs; try the option in the sentence and reread the whole thing.
• ✕ In odd-word-out: assuming a surface feature (like the number of letters) is the basis, when the grouping is about meaning.
• ✕ An answer that is true in real life but not in the passage: an option that is generally correct but unsupported by the text is not the answer.
• ✕ An option that copies a phrase from the passage but changes or exaggerates the meaning with words like 'always', 'all' and 'no one'.
• ✕ Choosing a title that covers only one paragraph; the best title covers the whole passage, and the main idea is never a minor detail.