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.