All about the GRE Verbal
Section
If you or someone know is planning to go to
Business Graduate School, it is important to
register and prepare for the GRE Test. This is a
mandatory entrance test that is used to
determine suitability for enrolment. It is known
as Graduate Record Examinations in full and
constitutes a standardized test that is available
all over the world. The test has various sections
and today we are going to focus on the GRE
. verbal section
Why the GRE Test?
The GRE Test is not designed to probe your
intelligence or business knowledge but seeks to
evaluate your overall store of knowledge and
experiences gathered over the years. The main
purpose of the test is to establish whether you
are up to the challenge posed by the Graduate
School studies. The test does not pay special
focus on any field of study either.
What is the GRE Verbal Section?
The verbal reasoning section of the GRE Test
provides an assessment of your ability to
evaluate and analyze written material as well as
the resultant information. It also looks at your
ability to analyze relationships that exist among
the various components of a sentence as well as
recognize the various relationships among
concepts and words.
You will find that verbal reasoning questions
take various formats half of which provide you
with passages which you are required to read
and answer related questions. The other half
consists of questions that require you to read,
interpret and complete provided sentences,
paragraphs and groups of sentences.
Reading comprehension 1.
Sentence equivalence 2.
Text completion 3.
What are the Required Skills?
The verbal reasoning section is a bit tricky and
the questions require the use of logic and
reasoning. You must possess rationality, good
vocabulary, good grammar, and language usage.
This is why you need to prepare for the test and
not just take everything for granted.
How to Prepare?
The best way to prepare is to enroll in one of the
Prep courses that are available online. The
courses give you high quality carefully selected
study materials, practice questions, and video
answers. You will also have access to an online
tutor to discuss any questions that you might
have. Another way to enrich your business
language usage is to read authoritative
publications such as The Economist.