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Why One Letter Costs a Mark
Vartani means the standard spelling of a word, and Hindi exams test it with the cruelest kind of question: four options that look almost identical, with exactly one letter wrong in three of them or in one of them. You cannot reason your way out by meaning; you must have seen the correct shape of the word. The good news is that nearly all errors come from a small set of causes: confusing श्र with शृ, writing रि for ऋ, mixing the long and short vowels इ and ई, wrong joining of conjuncts such as ज्व and त्य, and forgetting what sandhi does to a word. Learn those causes, memorise a short list of high-frequency words, and the section becomes the quickest scorer in the paper. These cards give the rules, the word list and a derivation test that works even for words you have never seen.
1. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a chain'.
2. Which of the following words is spelt INCORRECTLY?
3. Which is the correct form of the word made by joining 'अति' and 'अधिक'?
4. Select the correctly spelt word meaning 'exaggeration'.
5. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'health'.
6. In which option is the word spelt incorrectly?
7. Which is the correct spelling of the word meaning 'season'?
8. A student writes 'प्रतिक्षा' on the board. Which correction should the teacher give?