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The document contains instructions and questions for an aptitude test in Oriental languages administered by Oxford University. [1] It provides details for candidates to fill out and notifies them that they have 30 minutes to complete the paper, which contains two pages of questions testing knowledge of an invented language called Plonk. [2] The questions are structured to help candidates deduce meanings of words and concepts in Plonk by analyzing example sentences that differ from English in terms of articles and tense but maintain fixed word order. [3]

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The document contains instructions and questions for an aptitude test in Oriental languages administered by Oxford University. [1] It provides details for candidates to fill out and notifies them that they have 30 minutes to complete the paper, which contains two pages of questions testing knowledge of an invented language called Plonk. [2] The questions are structured to help candidates deduce meanings of words and concepts in Plonk by analyzing example sentences that differ from English in terms of articles and tense but maintain fixed word order. [3]

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY

ORIENTAL LANGUAGES
APTITUDE TEST

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

This booklet contains the Oriental Languages Aptitude Test, for applicants for course
  

combinations which include Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or Turkish.


Please complete the following details:

Surname

Other names

School/College name*
*If you are an individual candidate, taking this test away from a school or college, please write the name of
your examination centre in this box.

Centre Number

Candidate Number O
UCAS Number (if known) _ _

d d m m y y
Date of Birth _ _

Oxford College of Preference

Time allowed
You have 30 minutes. Your supervisor will notify you when you should begin the paper.
Question paper
The paper is two pages long. Try to answer all the questions, in order and systematically, but
do not rush for the sake of completion if you encounter difficulties.
You can use the blank back cover or separate paper for rough workings or notes, but only
answers in the spaces in the papers will be marked.
No dictionaries of any kind are permitted.

Administered on behalf of the University of Oxford by


the Admissions Testing Service, part of Cambridge
Assessment, a non-teaching department of the University of
Cambridge.
SECTION B [50 MARKS]

(3) The following questions are based on an invented language called Plonk. Plonk differs from
English in not having definite or indefinite articles (the and a), and in not differentiating
simple and progressive tenses (is going = goes, was leaving = left); it does, however, have
fixed word order. Try to work out the meaning of the sentences, individual words, and their
components by reading them carefully and considering the differences between similar
forms. The exercises are built up gradually, so it is best to do them in order.

(a) sepab cuvuhe The girl is talking.


qaknilt postola The postman is waiting.
sedalq dreqele The actress is leaving.
qapab nabaza The rooster is talking.
igrak plazayi The door creaks.
sekniltit nabazaze The hens are waiting.
iterbeb namakaki The letters are burning.
sebnurt postole The postwoman comes.
qatlab dreqela The actor is crying.
qaplintit cuvuhuha The boys are shivering.

Give the meaning of:


qadalq cuvuha ________________________________________________________________[3]

sepabab postolole ______________________________________________________________[4]

Translate into Plonk:


The roosters are coming. _________________________________________________________[4]

The door is burning. ____________________________________________________________[3]

(b)qatlabab guntulula The waiters are crying.


sebeknilt dreqele The actress was waiting.
postolaq iqataq namaki The postman sees the letter.
cuvuhes ibendes gadapi The girl is reading the book.
nabazazes qaknides cuvuha The hens are watching the boy.
cuvuhuhes qabelubes postola The girls heard the postman.
postoles selububes guntulule The postwoman hears the waitresses.
cuvuhaq ibeguntutaq gadapapi The boy wrote the books.

Give the meaning of:


guntules qabeqatates cuvuhuha

_____________________________________________________________________________[5]

dreqelelaq ilubaq plazayi

_____________________________________________________________________________[4]
Translate into Plonk:
The boy watched the hens.

_____________________________________________________________________________[5]

The waitresses saw the letters.

_____________________________________________________________________________[4]

(c) cuvuhaq iknidaq terbynamaki The boy watches the burning letter.
dreqeles ibeblutes grakyplazayi The actress opened the creaking door.
plintycuvuhuhes ibebendedes gadapapi The shivering girls were reading the
books.
kniltynabazazaq qabeqatataq tlabyguntulula The waiting roosters saw the crying
waiters.
postolaq ipurlaq cuvuhaz guntazynamaki The postman likes the letter that the boy
writes.
cuvuhuhes qalububes dreqelelez knidezynabazaza
The girls hear the roosters that the actress watches.
dalqyguntulaq sebeqataq vobokaz qredazycuvuhe
The leaving waiter saw the girl that the bull is licking.
vobokez purlezypostololes ibebendes cuvuhuhaz guntazygadapi
The postwomen that the cow likes was reading the
book the boys wrote.

Give the meaning of:


bnurtyvobokokes sebeqredes pabyguntule

________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________[4]

kniltydreqelelaq iqataq cuvuhuhez guntezynamaki

________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________[5]

Translate into Plonk:


The hens that the boys see liked the burning door.

________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________[4]

The postman wrote the letter the shivering actresses are opening.

________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________[5]

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