GRE Prep: Learn to crack Text Completion questions for GRE’s Verbal Section
Learn how to tackle the challenging Text Completion questions of the GRE Verbal section and maximize your score
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About Course
The Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE is one of the challenging sections of the GRE Revised General Test and scoring well requires a great deal of preparation. This section assesses the candidate’s ability to analyze and comprehend written content, to identify relationships among constituent parts of sentences, and among words and concepts. There are various formats in the Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE, and the Text Completion question type is one of the challenging formats you will find the Test. This online GRE preparation tutorial revolves around how you can effectively prepare and crack this question format.
But what exactly is getting tested through the Text Completion question type and why is that you need expert guidance to develop the skills involved? Expert readers don’t simply read. Instead, they constantly interpret and evaluate what they have read; reasoning along the way and creating and recreating a complete picture of what they’ve read. Text Completion questions in the GRE intend to assess this critical ability of the candidate by omitting crucial words from short passages and expecting the candidate to fill in the blanks using the remaining information in the passage and his best judgment. With proper guidance that comes through illustrious experience is what you will get from your course instructor Mr. Harish Kumar.
The questions in Text Completion questions type are made challenging in primarily five ways
- Use of difficult words in the sentences.
- Multiple blanks appearing close by.
- Use of idioms specific to English which are unknown to most non-native speakers of English.
- Introducing convoluted sentences to convey simple meanings.
- Obscuring meaning with ambiguous logic.
This online GRE coaching takes you in a step by step manner through the Text Completion Questions, teaches you how to handle the above mentioned challenges, overcome them and get the answers right every time. This course aids your online GRE preparation by teaching you the tips and strategies using which you can decode the complex sentences, unravel the devious logic and crack the difficult vocabulary- thereby helping you beat the GRE and obtain high scores in the Verbal Section.
This course assumes basic working knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar and proceeds in a step-by-step manner keeping the beginner and novice in mind. However, experts can also greatly benefit from the knowledge and unique strategies presented in the online coaching for GRE.
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About the Author
Harish Kumar
Prolific Verbal Trainer
In the course of his career, Harish has taught programming, technical writing and general writing to students in various institutes. He has particularly been training students, both online and offline, to ace the SAT, GRE and GMAT for the past 7 years. He has worked in top Test Prep institutes in India such as Manhattan Review and Crack Verbal and has and has helped numerous aspirants gain admission in Universities of their choice. Harish received the Excellence Award 2014 as the Best GRE coaching tutor in Chennai, from Think Vidya which is India’s premier online Educational Portal. Check his www.EnglishForEveryone.in or www.facebook.com/KnowYourEnglish to know more about his work.