Verbal Section

Hi am back with the GRE - Verbal section now. Most of the students of the non-western origins especially Asians will be taken aback when they face this section. To be honest, Indians speak even a notch higher than the well-educated Americans, which is the greatest asset. The true fact is the cream layer of the students going to US are mostly Indians when compared to other countries. It is just perseverance with patience, with which we can make it . The main aspect is Hardwork and deep concentration. The verbal section comprises

• Sentence Completions
• Antonyms
• Analogies
• Reading Comprehensions

Multiple-choice response sections are graded on a scale of 200-800, in 10 point increments. This section primarily tests vocabulary, and average scores in this section are substantially lower than those in the quantitative section. In a typical examination, this section may consist of 30 questions, and 30 minutes may be allotted to complete the section.

Sentence Completions

GRE Sentence completions in GRE Verbal measure your:

• ability to understand the logic of a sentence
• recognize words or phrases that complete the meaning of a sentence

You are given a sentence with either one or two words missing. Your job is to pick the answer choice with the word, or words, that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Antonyms

GRE Antonyms measure your:

• vocabulary
• ability to reason from a given concept to its opposite

You are presented with a single word followed by five choices containing words or short phrases. You have to select an answer choice that is nearly opposite in meaning to the original word. Since the questions often require you to distinguish finer shades of meaning, go through all the possible answer choices before making your selection.

Analogies

Analogies measure your ability to recognize:

• relationships among words and concepts they represent
• parallel relationships

You are presented with a related pair of words followed by five choices containing lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is the toughest one in GRE Verbal. Many students get a poor GRE Score in GRE Verbal section because of the toughness of the reading comprehension questions. GRE Reading comprehension measures your ability:

• to read with understanding, insight, and discrimination
• to analyze a written passage from several perspectives

Passages are taken from the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences and physical sciences. The passages are of varied lengths, but generally of 75 to 150 lines. The number of questions pertaining to a particular passage could range from 3 to 5.

Finally, i think you all would have got an idea about the GRE Verbal section,. If not, a hint of what happening in Verbal and what to do for answering in it. In the coming posts, we will discuss the strategies how to tackle the verbal section as such.

Catch you later!!!!