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Features of our Verbal Study Guide include, but are not limited to:
- The six test points will in advance introduce what would be tested before you read a question. As you are reading a passage, you become alarm to certain words or phrases that would later act as clues for answering the questions.
- Keywords locating techniques to find what you want when you are answering the questions. You will not waste time re-reading the WHOLE passage.
- Summary of three (and only three) subjects that may be addressed on the test day. Special tips to answer question for each of them: business, social science, and natural science.
- Analysis of the wrong choices. Your will be able to eliminate at least three incorrect choices even when you can’t fully understand a question or a passage.
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 Reading Comprehension
Section 1: One Principle Section 2: Two Styles 1. Presentation 2. Argumentation 3. Organizational Structure Section 3: Three Subjects 1. Natural Science 2. Social Science 3. Business Subject Section 4: Four-step Process of Reading 1. Dissect the introductory paragraph. 2. Skim the passage and get the author’s main point 3. Diagram the organization of the passage 4. Tackle the questions and correspondently refer to the passage. Section 5: Five Types of Questions 1. Main Idea Question 2. Recall Question 3. Inference Questions 4. Critical Reasoning Question 5. Difficult-to-locate Question Section 6: Six test points 1. Comparison 2. Example & Listing 3. People, Date & Place 4. Special Punctuation 5. Words of Attitude and Transition 6. Complicated Modifier |
Chapter 2 Sentence Completion
Section 1: The four types of relationship A. Contrast B. Cause and Effect C. Explanation D. Similarity E. Others Section 2: Five-Step Procedure to Complete a Sentence Practice Questions Chapter 3 Analogy Introduction How to define the relationship Eighteen common types of relationship Chapter 4 Antonyms |
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The following is an extract from the introductory section, first chapter of the Verbal Study Guide. There are totally three chapters in the GRE prep course, and each chapter is divided into several sections.
Reading Comprehension on the test day
On the GRE exam, you expect to see two to four Reading Comprehension passages with approximately three to four questions for each passage. However, you’ll only see one question at a time on the screen. Totally, there are about 8 questions for GRE Reading Comprehension.
The passages presented depend on how well you are performing on the test. However, unlike other parts of the test, the questions presented do not depend on your performance. That means, after you are assigned a reading passage, the next question presented for the same passage will not base on your performance for the last question.
Why Reading Comprehension is a nightmare to most students?
Most people find the passages difficult to understand because the subject matter is dry, unfamiliar and could be anything. Obscure subject matter is chosen so that your reading comprehension will be tested, not on your knowledge of a particular subject. The more esoteric the subject the more likely everyone taking the test will be on an even playing field. Also, in order to make sure that nobody can take advantages on a particular subject, the test-maker takes every effort to diversify the subjects of the three or four passages on your test day.
Furthermore, the passages use a formal, compact style. They are typically taken from articles in academic journals, but they are rarely reprinted verbatim. Usually the chosen article is heavily edited until it is honed down to about 200 to 400 hundred words. The formal style of the piece is retained but much of the “fluff” is removed. The editing process condenses the article to about one-third of its original length. As a result, a GRE passage contains about three times as much information for its length as does the original article. This makes it difficult to read.
In addition to being dry and unfamiliar, GRE passages often start in the middle of an explanation, so there is not point of reference. Finally, the passages are untitled, so you have to hit the ground running.
How to use this chapter
In order to make it easier for you to prepare for GRE exam, we have developed an interesting course for Reading Comprehension. You will find this chapter all in number, as the section # suggests. We hope this would help you learn the prep strategies.
Section 1: One Principle
Section 2: Two Writing Styles
Section 3: Three Subjects
Section 4: Four-step Procedure for Attacking a Passage
Section 5: Five Types of Question
Section 6: Six Test Points
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