GRE Verbal 1

  Today is the day of the midterm exam. You must take the exam with the camera turned on and pointed at your face at all times to ensure the validity of the testing environment. You must keep your microphone muted so all students have a quiet testing experience. You may turn your camera off during breaks and when you have completed the exam.   You will receive an email with a link to the exam. You have the entire class period to complete all questions. If everyone finishes before class time is over, we will review the exam during the remainder of class. If everyone needs the full time, we will review during our next class.   Please email your instructor if you have difficulty connecting to Zoom, receiving the exam link, or accessing the exam. Please send your instructor direct messages on Zoom if you have questions during the exam.   Week 5 is when we will have our Progress Reports and when forms will be due. Please contact the Registrar and the Dean of S...

  Preparing for a Standardized Test: (some of these may not apply to online testing during pandemic conditions)   The weeks & days before: ·        Study regularly daily – at least 10 practice problems a day, especially in struggle areas! ·        Review the testing website for any possible changes to policies & procedures ·        Review terminology, use flashcards, etc. ·        Have a “study outfit” you can wear to the test center when the time comes; this is useful for getting in the right mindset and triggering your memory during testing ·        Sign up with the name on your legal ID so it is exactly identical o    My horror story: my married name was different from my maiden name, and my old ID did not include my new marital patronymic, but I signed up with the new name. I was forbidden ...

  Chapter 8 – more vocabulary practice Activities: 1. Look up the roots, prefixes, and suffixes of the words in the word list 2. See if you can find synonymous roots in that list 3. Do the same with prefixes and suffixes (a = not, abiotic; ad = to, toward, adaptation; ex = out, down, away, against, example) 4. Now try to create lists of words you know using those roots, prefixes, and suffixes 5. Find words with roots in languages outside of Greek and Latin (e.g., algebra has Arabic roots) 6. Look at the root list and try to find the opposite roots (hetero/homo, andro/gyno, long/lat, etc.)  

  About Sentence Equivalence: ·        About 20% of each Verbal section ·        About 4 questions for passages of one sentence with one blank ·        Always 6 answer choices ·        You ALWAYS have to select EXACTLY TWO answers for each ·        Pick two answers which best complete the sentence; these are often synonyms but not always! ·        Note that the shapes next to the answer choices will be SQUARES not circles or ovals; this is true for “select all that apply” answers also ·        Remember, this is NOT word equivalence, it is SENTENCE equivalence ·        NOT just synonyms, but BOTH words must make the sentence as a whole: o    Make sense o    And have equivalent meaning ·    ...

  About Text Completion: ·        About 30% of each Verbal section ·        About 6 questions for passages of one to five sentences with one to three blanks ·        Read the whole passage ·        Each sentence should make sense as a whole ·        Relies on context ·        Identify significant words ·        Look for clues and structural indicators ·        Try to generate your OWN word to fill the blank before choosing an answer ·        Ask: o    Who or what does the blank describe? o    What else provides insight into that person or thing? ·        Don’t assume the first blank is the easiest – the second or third might be instead · ...

  Chapter 8 Remember that studying vocabulary will be useful beyond this test. Further, the more words you recognize, the more correct answers you are likely to get. Expand your vocabulary as much as possible while recognizing that we all have limits.   Tips: ·        Use the dictionary as much as possible: check pronunciation, part of speech, and multiple meanings, including archaic meanings; if possible, look at the etymology and related words as well ·        READ ·        Rephrase the definitions when writing your flash cards ·        Develop your own memory tools (mnemonic devices) ·        Keep a vocabulary journal ·        Flash cards! ·        Use new words multiple times when you learn them ·        Learn roots...