IEO Study Guide 2026
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📋 IEO Exam Format at a Glance
📚 IEO Topics to Study (41)
✍️ Sample IEO Questions & Answers
1. Choose the correctly punctuated sentence:
A direct quote requires a comma after the reporting clause and quotation marks around the exact words spoken.
2. Choose the correct tense: 'I _______ this film before, so I knew the ending.'
Past Perfect ('had watched') is correct — the film-watching happened before the other past action (knowing the ending).
3. If a passage describes a character's actions and dialogue without stating feelings directly, this technique is called:
Indirect characterization reveals a character's traits through their actions, speech, and thoughts rather than direct statements.
4. The phrase 'under the weather' means:
'Under the weather' is an idiom meaning to feel slightly ill or not in good health.
5. Select the SYNONYM of 'ENORMOUS':
Enormous means very large in size, quantity, or extent. Gigantic is a synonym meaning of very great size.
6. Which word is a synonym of 'eloquent'?
'Eloquent' and 'articulate' both describe the ability to express oneself fluently and clearly.