Verbal Section
You have 75 minutes to complete 41 multiple choice questions. Three types of multiple-choice
questions in the Verbal section of the GMAT exam—Reading Comprehension, Critical
Reasoning, and Sentence Correction.
The Verbal section of the GMAT exam measures your ability to:
- Read and comprehend written material.
- Reason and evaluate arguments.
- Correct written material to conform to standard written English.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Each passage contains approximately 350 words long. You will work on varies of topics:
social sciences, physical or biological sciences, and business-related areas (marketing,
economics, human resource management, etc.). However, you don’t need to worry about
that, all questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied
in the reading material, you don’t need to comprehend all type of topics. Just pace
yourself, try to read, understand and aswser the question wisely.
Some common types of questions: interpretive, applied, and inferential questions.
What Is Measured
This section measure your ability to understand, analyze, and apply information
and concepts to answer the questions, although your topic maybe very not familiar
and very hard to understand for you. But keep in mind that: your answer is on passages!
Some common types of questions:
- Understanding words and statements in reading passages: it measures your
ability to comprehend terms used in the passage and your understanding of the English
language.
- Understanding the logical relationships between significant points and concepts
in the reading passages: it requires you to determine the strong and weak points
of an argument or to evaluate the importance of arguments and ideas in a passage.
- Drawing inferences from facts and statements: based on the information in
the passage, the exam will ask you to consider factual statements, information or
reach a general conclusion.
- Understanding and following the development of quantitative concepts as they
are presented in verbal material: it requires you reach conclusions based on
numerical data in a passage or the use of simple arithmetic.
Critical Reasoning Questions
Critical Reasoning questions are designed to measure your reasoning skills such
as making arguments, evaluating arguments, and formulating or evaluating a plan
of action. Again, questions are based on materials from a variety of sources, however
you don’t need to familiar with all the specific subjects.
For example: A product that represents a clear
technological advance over
competing products can generally command a high price. Because technological advances
tend to be quickly surpassed and companies want to make large profits while
they still can, many companies charge the greatest price the market will bear when
they have such a product. But
large profits on the mew product will give competitors
a strong incentive to quickly match the mew product’s capabilities.
Consequently, the strategy to maximize overall profit from a new product is to charge
less than the greatest possible price.
In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following
roles?
A. The first is an assumption that forms the basis for a course of action that the
argument criticizes; the second presents the course of action endorsed by the argument.
B. The first is a consideration raised to explain the appeal of a certain strategy;
the second is a consideration raised to call into question the wisdom of adopting
that strategy.
C. The first is an assumption that has been used to justify a certain strategy;
the second is a consideration that is used to cast doubt on that assumption.
D. The first is a consideration raised in support of a strategy the argument endorses;
the second presents grounds in support of that consideration.
E. The first is a consideration raised to show that adopting a certain strategy
is unlikely to achieve the intended effect; the second is presented to explain the
appeal of that strategy
The Answer is: B
B First BF is a consideration (fact pertinent
to understanding the logic of the argument) and second BF is a consideration that
counters the logical conclusion of the first consideration. Neither BF is an assumption,
a presentation of a course of action, or an explanation. B is the only choice that
fits
Sentence Correction Questions
Sentence Correction questions ask you which of the five choices best expresses an
idea or relationship. The questions will require you to be familiar with the stylistic
conventions and grammatical rules of standard written English. You must also demonstrate
your ability to improve incorrect or ineffective expressions.
For Example:
During her presidency of the short-lived Woman¡¯s State Temperance Society (1852-1853),
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
as she was a staunch
advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most ardent supporters
in her suggestion that drunkenness should be made sufficient cause for
divorce.
A. as she was a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of
her most ardent supporters in her suggestion that drunkenness should be
B. as she was a staunch advocate for liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many
of her most ardent supporters by her suggestion of drunkenness being
C. in being a staunch advocate for liberalized divorce laws, had scandalized many
of her most ardent supporters with the suggestion of drunkenness being
D. a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, scandalized many of her most
ardent supporters by suggesting that drunkenness be
E. a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, she scandalized many of her most
ardent supporters in suggesting that drunkenness should be
The Answer is: D
A "...as she was..." is awkward and unnecessary and "in her
suggestion" is unidiomatic¡ªshould be ¡°with her suggestion¡± or ¡°by suggesting.¡±
B "...as she was..." as noted in A and "by her suggestion of" is also unidiomatic,
similar to problem noted in A. C "...in being..." is unnecessary and "had scandalized"
is incorrect usage of past perfect tense when the simple past is appropriate. E
In "...a staunch advocate of liberalized divorce laws, she scandalized...," she
is unnecessary and "