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GRE Sentence Equivalence Strategies – Don’t Get Distracted
In test-prep speak, wrong answers are known as distracters. In Sentence Equivalence questions and Text Completions, we want to be aware of a certain type of distracter. Often, one of the answer...
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To Plug or Not to Plug? – That is the Text Completion Question
In general, when approaching text completions, you should try to come up with your own word(s) that fit in the blank. Only when you’ve done so, should you return to the blanks and plug them in to...
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Sentence Equivalence Questions
Yes, the GRE has undergone a major overhaul and has become the Revised, or new, GRE. While complicated, most of the new question types have unambiguous instructions – in a three-blank text completion,...
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[Redirected] A Reading Comprehension Question Type Resurrected: Critical...
On the GRE, a subset of the Reading Comprehension is called Critical Reasoning. Of course, the new GRE doesn’t call it this, but simply lumps in under Reading Comprehension. Back before the old GRE...
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New GRE: Highlight the Sentence
Back in August, amidst all the fanfare of the inauguration of the Revised GRE, I totally overlooked one of the new question types in my blog posts: Highlight the Sentence. Perhaps such an omission...
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GRE Reading Comprehension Passage Patterns
Do you really understand the passage? Many GRE students often find themselves at sea on the Reading Comp passage. It is not that they do not practice, but they always feel they are floundering about...
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GRE Critical Reasoning Question Type: Assumption Questions
Assumption questions are relatively common on the GRE Critical Reasoning component of the Reading Comprehension section. You know you are dealing with an assumption when the question is something like...
View ArticleMain Idea Questions in GRE Reading Comprehension
Everything you read is focused on some core concept, often called the main idea or primary purpose. The GRE passages are no exception. Each passage contains a main idea, usually established early in...
View ArticleInferences Questions in GRE Reading Comprehension
The GRE requires a very specific type of inference, not like the ones we typically make in our day to day. Instead of making bold claims about observed phenomenon, mingling aggregated experience with...
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GRE Reading Comprehension Pacing
It is easy to think that GRE pacing can just be reduced to a simple calculus: 30 minutes for 20 questions, equals 1.5 minutes per question. Things, however, are a lot more complicated than that. To...
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