Thursday, April 19, 2012

Sentence Equivalence Question in Revised GRE Test



In computer based, revised GRE test, you will get about four sentence equivalence questions in each GRE Verbal Section, thus you have to answer about eight sentence equivalence questions (as revised GRE contains 2 Verbal Section)

Sentence equivalence questions consists of a single sentence with just one blank, and they will ask you to find two choices that both lead to a complete, coherent sentence and that produces sentences that mean the same thing.
Since, you will have to pick the two answer choices that best complete the sentence; this means the two correct answers are synonyms.
Each sentence equivalence questions in revised GRE test consists of
a. A single sentence
b. One blank
c. Six answer choices.
You have to select two of the answers choices (synonyms) to get the score. If you select only one right answer, you wont get any credit (score) for this partial answer.