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GRE General: Verbal Reasoning Section of The GRE
Sentence Equivalence And Text Completion

Vocabulary on the GRE is not simple. Here you can find about vocab-boosting strategies and other methodologies and tricks for success on the Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion questions on the GRE.

Sentence Equivalence And Text Completion

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Introducing the Questions

On the Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE revised General Test, almost half of the questions will be reading comprehension and other half will be comprised of Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion questions.

Both of these types of questions are basically about vocab, but they test you in different ways:

Sentence Equivalence questions give you one sentence with a blank and have you pick two words that make equivalent and coherent sentences.
Text Completion questions give you one to five sentences with one to three blanks and have you pick words for the blank or blanks separately.

On the Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE, nearly half of the questions will be reading comprehension. and the other half consist of Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion questions.

Sentence Equivalence questions give you one sentence with a blank and have you pick two words that make equivalent and coherent sentences.
Text Completion questions give you one to five sentences with one to three blanks and have you pick words for the blank or blanks separately.

Vocabulary Strategies

Sentence Equivalence and Text Completion questions are mainly hard because of the vocab.
Don't try to memorize every word on the test!
Use these tips to maximize your vocabulary with minimal memorization
Prefixes, and Suffixes
Learning Greek and Latin roots
Use Elimination
Build your vocab list strategically