GRE Reading Comprehension Question Types

Question Formats

• Multiple choice with one answer
• Multiple choice with one or more answers
• Select-in-passage

Order of Presentation

• There's no particular order to the question types
• The first Verbal Reasoning section will have a range of questions from easy to difficult.
• The level of questions on your second section will depend on how well you do on the first one.
• Don't assume that each question has only one answer!

Strategies and Tips

• Remember to base every answer on the passage.
• On the multiple-choice questions, a good strategy is to remember question-passage-answers.
• For all of these questions, there is no penalty for a wrong answer
• You don't get any extra points for answering hard questions