Gre Veerbal Language Analysis

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HOW TO CRACK GRE VERBAL
The GRE Verbal tests your ability to scrutinize and draw conclusions from conversations and perceive the meanings of words, sentences and entire texts. The Verbal section is meant to judge your ability to understand the facts and derive inferences from English texts.
Verbal Reasoning questions have three different formats. Each format will be discussed in detail in the following sections. Of the three types, almost half of the questions are based on reading the passages and understanding the meaning of the passage and answering the questions asked related to that passage. The remaining half questions are based on reading, understanding and completing the existing sentences or paragraphs.
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The questions per passage would range from 1 to 6. Questions could cover topics like asking about meaning of the passage, estimation of the passage and the overall concept of the passage. Many questions but not all, will be a standard multiple choice question like choosing a single correct answer from the choices given but they may also ask questions which you may have to choose multiple correct answer.
Text completion
Persons who are skilled in reading do not just grasp the information given in the passage; instead, they have the ability of understanding, evaluating and concluding; reasoning and recognizing from what they have read and understood so far and picture the whole content by recalling it. Text completion tests your ability to choose the correct phrases or words that are missing in the passage.
Passage consists of 1 to 5 sentences with 1 to 3 blanks each. Each blank has 3 choices of answer mostly. Occasionally, there are 5 choices of answer where there is just 1 blank in the passage or sentence. The choice needs to be logically and syntactically correct for the paragraph/sentence.
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There are basically things you need to know about these types of questions: 1. They test the words which are rarely used in day to day life.
2. The choices of answers given in the question seems to have similar meaning so that it may be confusing to opt for the correct answer. From this you can understand that vocabulary is very essential in verbal reasoning so, memorizing the meaning or definitions of words will not help you to score instead you must know usage of every word with its contextual meaning so that you can compare words having similar meaning.

Start practicing by taking a mock test should be your starting point before starting with your preparation to know your level. Make sure that your practice sections are really useful. Take few example passages and solve it by having a time constraint and practice reading the passage and understanding the meaning and the outline of the passage in a limited time, so that time duration for understanding the concept of passage will reduce while you’re attempting GRE test so that you can concentrate on the difficult

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