New Revised GRE Verbal Section: Sample Questions and Answers

Changed GRE, Verbal Section, Question answers

Hi All, we know that GRE is changing from August 1, 2011 .We wish to give you a feel about how changed verbal section will look, so it can clear the picture in your mind up to some extent. The revised GRE Verbal Reasoning section will consist following types of questions:

1. Reading Comprehension
2. Text Completion
3. Sentence Equivalence

Reading Comprehension (RC)

Changed RC section will consist of 3 types of questions:

1. Select one or more answer choice: In this newly introducing multiple choice type questions, students will be provided with three answer choices, and student will be asked to choose all the correct answer choices. Correct answer choice could be one, two or all three .So, students will have a privilege to choose more than one option. To score excellent in these types of questions students should focus on choosing only correct options as there would be no credit for a fractionally correct option. Example:

(Examples mentioned below is from www.ets.org)

Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.

The passage suggests that Glass’s work displays which of the following qualities? A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions

1) An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music.

2) A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles

Answer: A and C

(Answer choice is more than one choice)

2.  Select-in-Passage: This is also a newly entered section in RC. This type of question will require to choose a sentence from the passage that meets the certain description. These types of questions will definitely give an idea to GRE evaluators to judge how well a student can understand the RC passage. Example:

Select the sentence from the above mention passage distinguishing two ways of integrating rock and classical music.

Answer:

“His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.”

3. Select one answer choice: GRE‘s Reading Comprehension section will still go with traditional format, where students have to choose one option from provided five options.

Text Completion questions

The Text Completion question will include a passage comprising one to five sentences with one to three blanks .There will be three to five options per blank. Students have to choose the one option from the provided options to fill in the blank. While choosing the option, student must remember the context of passage to choose the correct option. Example:

Vain and prone to violence, Caravaggio could not handle success: the more his (1)__________ as an artist increased, the more (2)__________ his life became.

Blank 1: temperance, notoriety, eminence

Blank 2: tumultuous, providential, dispassionate

Answer: eminence and tumultuous

Sentence Equivalence Questions

These types of questions will consist of a single sentence with one blank only. Student will be provided with six answer choices and from the six choices students have to pick just two answers .Do bear in mind there will be no credit for partially correct answer.

Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as __________.

1) orthodox
2) eccentric
3)original
4)trifling
5)conventional
6)innovative

Answer: C and F

These all changes that we have discussed above will be in effect from 1 August, 2011. If you are planning to take GRE before that, then you see same old pattern. Kindly post your views, comments below this blog.

Wishing you all, success!!!

Best Regards,

Shipra Srivastava

Team Learnwordlist.com

37 Responses to “New Revised GRE Verbal Section: Sample Questions and Answers”

1. jonathan oteng-afari on August 16th, 2010 3:22 pm

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2. shipra on August 17th, 2010 4:29 am

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4. sharma on November 3rd, 2010 2:21 pm

   is it true that we have calculus in the revised version of gre??

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7. shipra on November 4th, 2010 5:20 am

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9. zahed chowdhury on November 5th, 2010 3:40 pm

   Thank you for your kind information. But I have a question that if i attend in next new revised GRE, what type of vocabulary section will be.

   Best regards

10. Mohammad on November 6th, 2010 6:07 am

    I think learning new vocabulary in GRE level is too hard. It might be a good idea to send an email about for example 5 words and meaning and examples every day and a test for each week form the words of last week. It can be more effective in learning new vocabulary.

11. shipra on November 8th, 2010 4:36 am

    Thanks for your suggestion Mohammad, we will give your suggestion a serious thought and if possible we shall try to implement it.

12. shipra on November 8th, 2010 4:48 am

    Thanks for your comment zahed, vocabulary will be only based on RC passage. What i mean to say there would be more focus on contextual vocabulary.

13. shipra on November 8th, 2010 6:06 am

    Thanks for your comment Ayoade, we wish to inform you , we can only help you with GRE exam.

14. Pammi Nitin on November 19th, 2010 11:10 am

    Dear Shipra,
    thanks a lot for efforts and reply… its really very helpful… please guide me, what things i sud take care of with this new version of GRE.. and for vocab part how sud i start…. its almost one year from now for me to prepare for GRE.. as i have planned to go for it in September 2011.. and i really can not afford to waste my time.. i am a regular reader of ur posts n found them very useful.. please guide me in brief to move in this direction.. afresh.. Please clarify one more thing.. Is der any changes in Maths section too in revised GRE???

15. prabhleen on January 20th, 2011 10:47 am

    thanx 4 guiding abt verbal section…bt do tell if thr r any changes in math section….???

16. shipra on January 21st, 2011 4:13 am

    Yes prableen, there are changes kindly visit ets.org as we do not cover maths section..

17. poornima on January 27th, 2011 8:18 am

    shipra can u plz tell me when the july dates will be released as am planning to take test before aug2011.

18. shipra on January 28th, 2011 4:50 am

    Thanks for your comment Poorima, kindly keep visiting ets.org in this regard..

19. prashanth on April 8th, 2011 6:28 am

    please suggest me books to work on sentence completion,text completion ….

20. prashanth on April 8th, 2011 6:29 am

    i am very weak in verbal reasoning…suggest some books..i am taking revised gre…

21. shipra on April 9th, 2011 4:40 am

    Prashanth, all the revised books are available in market now. Kindly look for revised Barrons or Kaplan.

22. Vocabulary for revised GRE : GRE Prep Courses Free LearnWordList.com Blog on April 25th, 2011 8:57 am

    [...] As we know with revised GRE antonyms and analogy questions are going completely out of picture so no more out of context words. Does this mean there would be no vocabulary portion in revised GRE? Not exactly! There would be questions on in- context vocabulary. Read following words they can help you in solving Reading Comprehension (RC), Sentence Equivalence, and Text Completion Questions. [...]

23. Charles on May 13th, 2011 8:25 am

    I love all these stuff. They are really very very helpful.
    Thank you

    Charles Brefo Sekyere
    UEW- Kumasi Ghana

24. shipra on May 14th, 2011 5:09 am

    Thanks Charles..

25. Sarwar Hussain on June 20th, 2011 10:35 am

    What are the major changes in Math section???? I heard calculus will be added to this section……is it true?? Plz answer…..

26. shipra on June 21st, 2011 4:25 am

    Hussain, visit ets.org for maths related updates..

27. madhura on June 30th, 2011 4:34 pm

    is there a new word list for new gre??….or the same as before?

28. shipra on July 1st, 2011 4:33 am

    Madhura, not all old words are included in revised GRE…

29. wizkid on July 16th, 2011 9:44 am

    It appears to be in the sentence completion question, the first option “ORTHODOX” also fits in…????Please comment

30. shipra on July 20th, 2011 4:13 am

    Wizkid, please also mention question number.

31. Yasi on July 25th, 2011 2:19 am

    Dear Shipra,

    thank you for your valuable information. is there any place that I can find top 400 word list for new GRE?

    Rgrds,
    Yasi

32. shipra on July 26th, 2011 5:03 am

    Yasi, revised gre is not vocab based, kindly visit takethegre.com, an ets venture for revised gre.

33. shakthi on July 27th, 2011 5:23 am

    Dear Shipra,

    I feel am little scared about the new pattern.It seems that there is no credit for partially correct answer which i feel that marks may get reduced.

34. Gokul on August 19th, 2011 4:40 am

    How sud ? score maximum in this new format of gre since ? was preparing for the old format examination.

35. shipra on August 20th, 2011 4:35 am

    Thanks for your comment Gokul, we time and again publish helpful tips in our blog segment. kindly keep visiting us.

36. sidra on August 26th, 2011 3:59 pm

    which is the best book or site for the preparation of new gre vocabulary.

37. shipra on August 27th, 2011 5:26 am

    Sidra please visit http://learnwordlist.com/grevocabulary/

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