tailieunhanh - Gre verbal section 1

Tham khảo tài liệu 'gre verbal section 1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ----------------------------- THE GRE VERBAL SECTION -------------------------------------- Introduction to the Verbal Section The Verbal section of the GRE presents you with questions very much like those on the preceding sample test. As you can see from the pretest a good vocabulary will help you immensely. In addition numerous strategies can help you maximize your chances of correctly answering the questions which this chapter will discuss. The Verbal section of the GRE is timed for 30 minutes. In that time you will be presented with 30 questions each with answer choices a-e. Because the exam is a computer-adaptive test CAT every test taker will receive a different set of questions. If you answer a given question correctly you will then be presented with a more difficult question. If you answer incorrectly you will receive a less difficult question. The harder the questions you successfully answer the more points you receive. That means your answers to the first 10 or 15 questions are particularly important because the CAT program is finding the general range within which you correctly answer questions. Once the program has determined your general score range . the 500s the 600s the 700s it uses the remaining questions to fine-tune your score . 620 640 660 . That means you want to be especially careful with your answers on the first half of the Verbal section. Remember that you may also have an additional section which could be presented as a Verbal or a Quantitative section . If so one of the two Verbal or Quantitative sections will be a research section that will not count toward your score. However you will not be able to tell which of the two similar sections is the scored section and which is the research section. It is important to treat each one as though it were the scored section. What to Expect on the GRE Verbal Section As you saw in the pretest there are four kinds of Verbal section questions analogies antonyms sentence completions and reading .