All 18 Word Formation questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2016 and 2022, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
8 of these 18 were set in more than one exam — the Commission reuses this topic, which is the argument for working through it rather than skimming it.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
DISTURBANCE has 11 letters. Swap 1st with 11th, 2nd with 10th and 3rd with 9th. Then swap 4th with 8th and 5th with 7th. The 6th letter, R, stays. This simply reverses the word. > E C N A B R U T S I D The letter just after T is S.
Swap the letters of DEPRESSION in pairs: (D,E) → ED, (P,R) → RP, (E,S) → SE, (S,I) → IS, (O,N) → NO. The new word is EDRPSEISNO. The 7th letter from the right is the 4th from the left, which is P — not among options (a) to (c). > E D R P S E I S N O > 7th from right = 4th from left = P So None of the above.
The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th letters of CONTRACT are C, O, T, R, A. The only meaningful word starting with A that uses them is ACTOR, whose middle (third) letter is T.
The second, third, sixth and eighth letters of FRAGMENT are R, A, E, T. These form more than one meaningful word — RATE, TEAR and TARE — so by the rule given the answer is Y.
Arranging the letters of TRANSFORM in alphabetical order gives A F M N O R R S T. Compare position by position with T R A N S F O R M: only the 4th letter, N, stays in the same place. > T R A N S F O R M > A F M N O R R S T So exactly one letter keeps its position.
The six letters T, L, E, M, N, A rearrange into the word MENTAL. Reading off the numbers of M, E, N, T, A, L gives 4, 3, 5, 1, 6, 2. None of the other sequences spells a meaningful word.
EXAMINATION contains the letters E, X, M, T, O once each and A, I, N twice each. ANIMAL and NATIONAL need an L, which is absent; EXAMINER needs two E's and an R, but the word has only one E and no R. ANIMATION uses A, N, I, M, A, T, I, O, N — two A's, two N's, two I's and one each of M, T, O — all available.
The letters C, I, F, A, I, P, C rearrange to spell PACIFIC, the largest ocean on earth, so the word names an ocean. Checking letter counts (two C's, two I's, one each of F, A, P) confirms the anagram.
Number the letters of DISTRIBUTION: D1 I2 S3 T4 R5 I6 B7 U8 T9 I10 O11 N12. The 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 11th letters are I, T, R, B, O, which form the word ORBIT. Its third letter is B.
Number the letters of INTERPRETATION: I(1) N(2) T(3) E(4) R(5) P(6) R(7) E(8) T(9) A(10) T(11) I(12) O(13) N(14). The 1st, 4th, 7th and 11th letters are I, E, R, T. These four letters form more than one meaningful word — TIRE, TIER and RITE — so by the rule given the answer is M.
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See the printed book →The Commission set 18 Word Formation questions across 26 papers between 2016–2022. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
Yes. 8 of these 18 were set in more than one exam, which is why they are worth working rather than reading. Each question here carries a badge showing how many sittings asked it.
Here. Every question on this page is a solved MCQ: the four options as printed, the correct answer, and a worked explanation in plain English — not just a letter. The rest of the 18 are in the book, in the same form.
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The exams behind these questions, most first. A paper here is a sitting: a question set in two papers of the same sitting counts once.
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