Entrance Examination
  1. All candidates are required to sit an Entrance Examination to be held in June every year (This may vary in 2021).
  2. The subjects for the Entrance Examination shall be:
    1. Language Paper – Sinhala Language or Tamil Language or English Language.
    2. General Knowledge and General Intelligence.
  3. A candidate may elect to answer the General Knowledge and General Intelligence paper in Sinhala, Tamil or English Language. If he elects to answer the General Knowledge and General Intelligence paper in either the Sinhala Language or Tamil Language, he shall sit for the English Language paper. If he elects to answer the General Knowledge and General Intelligence paper in English, he shall sit for either the Sinhala Language or the Tamil Language paper.
  4. The Syllabus for the Language Paper shall comprise-
    1. An essay, main objective being to test the candidate’s power of thought, expression and arrangement.
    2. Precise writing and paraphrasing.
    3. Syntax, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms, figurative and idiomatic usage.