GRE Verbal Section

Verbal Section
Length 30 minutes
Format Multiple Choice
# Questions 30
Question Types

Reading Comprehension
Sentence Completion
Analogies
Antonyms

Topics Tested

Vocabulary
Reading
Verbal Reasoning

 

The GRE Verbal section contains 30 questions and lasts 30 minutes. All questions are multiple choice. The Verbal section contains four question types.

  • Reading Comprehension questions require you to understand the topic, scope, purpose, and structure of academic passages drawn from the arts and sciences.
  • Sentence Completion questions require you to select a word or pair of words that “fill in the blanks” to produce a grammatically and logically correct sentence.
  • Analogy questions present you with a pair of words, whose relationship you must analyze. You then select the answer choice that contains a pair of words with the same relationship as the words in the question stem.
  • For Antonym questions, you must determine the meaning of a word and then select the answer choice that contains the word or phrase closest to the opposite meaning.

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