tailieunhanh - – THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 4. Once you understand a question, try to answer it in your own

– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 4. Once you understand a question, try to answer it in your own words before looking at your answer choices. Distracter answers often take one of several forms: ■ They are close to the correct answer, but are wrong in some detail. ■ They are true, but do not answer the question. ■ They use language found in the text, but are not the correct answer. 5. As with all the multiple-choice questions on the GRE, elimination is an important strategy for the reading comprehension questions. Even if you don’t know the answer to a. | --------------------------------- THE GRE VERBAL SECTION -------------------------------------------- 4. Once you understand a question try to answer it in your own words before looking at your answer choices. Distracter answers often take one of several forms They are close to the correct answer but are wrong in some detail. They are true but do not answer the question. They use language found in the text but are not the correct answer. 5. As with all the multiple-choice questions on the GRE elimination is an important strategy for the reading comprehension questions. Even if you don t know the answer to a particular question right away you often will be able to eliminate one to three answer choices without even referring back to the passage. Then you know that one of the remaining answers is the correct one and you can spend your time more productively looking in the passage for information to back up your choice. 6. Expect to refer back to the passage on virtually every question. If you know the answer to a question without referring back that s fine although it might be a good idea to check the passage anyway just to make sure you haven t fallen for a distracter answer. 7. Remember to read between the lines With the sentence completion questions you may remember that you must be extremely literal and never read anything into them or bring in any ideas that are not clearly expressed within the sentence itself. This is not true with reading comprehension questions. In fact you will be asked to interpret almost every passage to draw conclusions from the text and to extend the author s point of view to evaluate a statement that is not even in the passage. Tips and Strategies for the Official Test Now you have tried your hand at some practice questions. You had read strategies for each of the four kinds of Verbal questions and started to absorb them. You have already learned some new vocabulary. Here are the strategies you have learned for each type of question. As