The O/L Sinhala paper is on Wednesday, 9 December 2026. Counting back from that day gives eight weeks, and this plan fills them with the topics that actually repeat in 14 past Paper I sittings (2012 to 2025), not with the whole syllabus in textbook order.
- Papers I and II together, 08:30 – 11:40
- Paper III, 13:00 – 15:00
The eight weeks at a glance
| Week | Focus |
|---|---|
| 114 Oct – 20 Oct | වචනාර්ථ and 6 more |
| 221 Oct – 27 Oct | රූඪි ව්‍යවහාර and 6 more |
| 328 Oct – 3 Nov | ප්‍රස්තාව පිරුළු and 6 more |
| 44 Nov – 10 Nov | නාම ආඛ්‍යාත ගැළපීම and 6 more |
| 511 Nov – 17 Nov | The hardest topics |
| 618 Nov – 24 Nov | Your own wrong-answer list |
| 725 Nov – 1 Dec | Full papers, timed |
| 82 Dec – 8 Dec | Wrong answers only, then rest |
Weeks 1 to 4: the topics that repeat
Every topic below has been asked in at least three of the 14 sittings. They are split into four weeks of similar size, so no week is all easy or all heavy. Each day: twenty past-paper questions from that week's topics, then read the explanation of every one you missed.
- වචනාර්ථ · 14 of 14 years, 57 questions
- විරුද්ධ පද · 14 of 14 years, 14 questions
- පද භාවිතය · 13 of 14 years, 38 questions
- සන්ධි · 12 of 14 years, 12 questions
- නිපාත පද · 11 of 14 years, 11 questions
- වචන ගොනු · 7 of 14 years, 7 questions
- අක්ෂර වින්‍යාසය · 6 of 14 years, 7 questions
- රූඪි ව්‍යවහාර · 14 of 14 years, 35 questions
- අකාරාදි පිළිවෙළ · 14 of 14 years, 14 questions
- පර්යාය පද · 13 of 14 years, 21 questions
- උක්ත අනුක්ත නාම පද · 12 of 14 years, 13 questions
- ලේඛන රීති · 11 of 14 years, 11 questions
- පද ගැළපීම · 7 of 14 years, 7 questions
- අක්ෂර හා පද වර්ග · 6 of 14 years, 7 questions
- ප්‍රස්තාව පිරුළු · 14 of 14 years, 32 questions
- සමාස · 14 of 14 years, 15 questions
- අලංකාර · 13 of 14 years, 16 questions
- ක්‍රියා පද · 12 of 14 years, 14 questions
- විභක්ති · 10 of 14 years, 10 questions
- ස්වර පිලි · 8 of 14 years, 8 questions
- උච්චාරණ ස්ථාන · 3 of 14 years, 4 questions
- නාම ආඛ්‍යාත ගැළපීම · 14 of 14 years, 26 questions
- ඡේද අවබෝධය · 14 of 14 years, 20 questions
- සාහිත්‍ය ඉතිහාසය · 12 of 14 years, 25 questions
- ව්‍යාකරණ ප්‍රවර්ග · 12 of 14 years, 23 questions
- පද්‍ය රසවින්දනය · 8 of 14 years, 12 questions
- ප්‍රත්‍යය · 8 of 14 years, 8 questions
- සාමාන්‍ය දැනුම · 3 of 14 years, 3 questions
Week 5: the hardest topics
These are the topics where the largest share of past questions is rated hard by our curators. A week on them, after the core is in place, is the cheapest way to lift a good score to a very good one.
- අක්ෂර වින්‍යාසය · 6 of 7 questions rated hard
- සන්ධි · 8 of 12 questions rated hard
- පද්‍ය රසවින්දනය · 7 of 12 questions rated hard
- නාම ආඛ්‍යාත ගැළපීම · 14 of 26 questions rated hard
- ව්‍යාකරණ ප්‍රවර්ග · 12 of 23 questions rated hard
- ස්වර පිලි · 4 of 8 questions rated hard
The reasons, with worked questions, are in the hardest O/L Sinhala MCQ topics.
Weeks 6 to 8: from your mistakes to the paper
- Week 6: no new questions. Go back through every question you got wrong in weeks 1 to 5 and answer them again until each one is right twice.
- Week 7: two full Paper I papers on the clock, from years you have not done yet. Mark them, and add every miss to the list.
- Week 8: the list, one last time, and sleep. Nothing new in the last three days; the paper-day guide has what to do on each of them.
Three things specific to Sinhala
- Idioms (රූඪි), proverbs (ප්‍රස්තාව පිරුළු) and word meanings are asked in every sitting. Ten a day from now to the exam is over five hundred, which covers what the papers repeat.
- Grammar questions (sandhi, samasa, subject-verb agreement, verb forms) are where most marks slip. Learn each rule with two examples you can write from memory.
- Spelling questions look easy and are not. Keep a list of the words you misspell and the rule behind each one (න/ණ, ල/ළ, ශ/ෂ).
Started late? Keep the order and squeeze it: weeks 1 to 4 become one topic set every three or four days, and never skip the wrong-answer list. The list is the plan.
A question from week 1, to start today
“සේවකයෝ රාජකාරි නිමා කර කාර්යාලයෙන් පිටත් වූහ.” යන වාක්‍යයෙහි ‘කාර්යාලයෙන්’ යන්නෙහි විභක්තිය කුමක් ද?
- Aඅවධි
- Bආධාර
- Cසම්ප්‍රදාන
- Dකර්ම