The GRE general Test is an examination designed to measure the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing skills you have developed in the course of your academic career. High GRE scores strongly correlate with the probability of success in graduate school. For this reason many graduates and professional schools required applicants to take the GRE. This test is given on computer only. GRE subject test is also required from these schools and colleges.
The computer based GRE tests have three sections.
- A 30 – question verbal section
- A 28 – question quantitative section
- An analytical writing section composed of two task
- An unidentified experimental section, which would be a second verbal or quantitative section
The verbal section measures your ability to use words as tools in reasoning; you are tested not only your vocabulary but on your ability to descend the relationship that exist both within written passage and among individual groups of words.
In verbal section questions are based on Antonym questions, Analogy questions, Sentence completion questions, Reading comprehension questions. Here we are going to take a look on Sentence completion questions.
GRE sentence completion question test your ability to use your vocabulary and recognize logical consistency among the elements in a sentence. You need to know more than the dictionary definitions of words.
Each question contains one or two blanks. These blanks signify that a word or set of words. For each blank pick the word or set of words that best reflects the sentence’s overall meaning.
Fill in the blank in the following sentence by selecting the most appropriate alternative from amongst the four choices given under each sentence. The house is in a terrible state; the paint on the doors is badly.
1. Flaking
2. Rotting
3. Eroding
4. Decaying
2. Of the four alternatives given under the sentence, find the one that best fits into the blank space
Every Shakespearean hero has an internal………………… in his character.
1. Fault
2. Defect
3. Flaw
4. Weakness
3. The event passed…………………. without any untoward incident.
1. Of
2. On
3. Off
4. Away
You will find such more questions on GRE Sentence Completion Question.
As you saw GRE Sentence completion questions may come from different fields like art, literature, history, philosophy, botany, astronomy, geology and may be some other field. Although you are unknown with the subject’s matter of exacting sentence, you should still be able to analyze that sentence and choose the word that best completes its meaning. It is not the sentence’s subject matter that makes hard GRE sentence completion questions hard. In above all questions answer is the word which is bold and italic.