Category: GRE Verbal Practice

  • How to Improve GRE Verbal Score in a Week

    How to Improve GRE Verbal Score in a Week

    Got a week to boost your GRE Verbal score and need a strategy? We’ve got you covered. Let’s turn that week into a verbal section victory with a seven-day plan. Remember, it’s okay to take breaks and avoid cramming sessions – this plan is designed to help you build a solid strategic foundation, not rely…

  • GRE Reading Comprehension Practice: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and More!

    GRE Reading Comprehension Practice: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and More!

    Over the many years that I’ve been a tutor, I’ve declaimed on numerous occasions that the act of studying only from a deck of flashcards has limited efficacy. That’s why my answer to the common question, How do I improve my reading comprehension? is simply this—read voraciously from sources that challenge you to think critically…

  • Critical Reasoning on the GRE: Practice Questions and Explanations

    Of all GRE Verbal question types, GRE Critical Reasoning questions can be especially frustrating, particularly if you’re encountering them for the first time! If you’ve taken an exam like the SAT that doesn’t have this question type, the logical analysis these questions require can feel unfamiliar. Luckily, there’s an easy solution to that—working through plenty…

  • 27 GRE Verbal Practice Questions with Explanations

    27 GRE Verbal Practice Questions with Explanations

    GRE verbal practice is an essential part of your GRE prep! Read on for 27 GRE verbal reasoning practice questions, covering the question formats, types, and difficulty levels you’ll see on test day. If you want to start right away, use the table below to jump to each practice question. If you’re returning to this…

  • Magoosh GRE Verbal Diagnostic Test

    In this post, we have a short GRE Verbal practice test. You can use this free practice to assess your basic GRE Verbal ability, as an important early step in your GRE Prep. Knowing your GRE Verbal level will point you in the right direction for test day success. If you want to learn a…

  • GRE Reading Practice: Writers in The New York Times

    When it comes to improving your reading ability and vocabulary, there is no shortcut. To be a better reader, you have to read and you have to read often. So often we hear from students who have a month left before their test and are looking for quick ways to improve their Verbal score. Sadly,…

  • GRE Text Completions – It’s Not Always About the Vocab

    When prepping for the GRE, it is easy to get carried away in learning big-sounding words, such as apotheosis and portentous, forgetting that success on Text Completions is dependent on your ability to understand the context of a sentence. Oftentimes, the answer-choices themselves are not these big—portentous—sounding words, but relatively straightforward words that, when you…

  • Text Completion Challenge

    Text Completions are notoriously difficult—that’s even if you know all the words in the answer choices. Beyond vocabulary, you will need a lot of practice with this question type. Below are eight questions to help you gauge where you stand, as far as Text Completions. To really get the most out of this challenge, you…

  • GRE Reading Comprehension Passage Outlines

    The following is a skeletal outline of a complex passage drawn from a real LSAT test (http://www.lsac.org/jd/pdfs/SamplePTJune.pdf). I recommend LSAT RC passages because they’re very similar to GRE RC, and will be completely fresh to you, since you’ve probably seen many GRE passages (especially from the OG) before. The idea here is that you pay…

  • Snippets of GRE-type Prose on the Internet

    The first excerpt is a paragraph from a two-paragraph write-up on a review of Cusk’s memoir. The reviewer uses some tough GRE-level vocabulary, including the word ‘portentous’, which was recently on the GRE paper-based test. (I have bolded the vocabulary words). Her reaction to the book is rendered in prose reminiscent of a short Reading…