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17 Nov 2022, 19:13
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Hi friends,
I saw an GRE instructor tell students to start at the last answer choice and work your way up when solving questions for verbal. I realize that for quant often you want to pick a middle number for certain quant types to see how far up or down you need to go. What are some experts' thoughts on the order of approaching verbal questions (and quant if you have different advice)?
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I saw an GRE instructor tell students to start at the last answer choice and work your way up when solving questions for verbal. I realize that for quant often you want to pick a middle number for certain quant types to see how far up or down you need to go. What are some experts' thoughts on the order of approaching verbal questions (and quant if you have different advice)?
Thank you
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17 Nov 2022, 21:32
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Not an expert, but here's my 2 cents. With Verbal, it depends on the question type. If it is Sentence Correction, then you need to look at the splits and analyze the choices vertically. Sometimes similar answers are separated by other answers, so you may need to look at answer choices A, C, & E together (vertically). With CR, I personally go through choices in the order that they appear, and assign a score (maybe the answer, probably is the answer, definitely not the answer). Then re-read to eliminate 4 choices and pick best one. Similar for RC except I first glance back at the passage real quick.
As for quant, I glance at answer for things like how far apart are they, do the answers contain variables, what kind of expressions do they have (squares, roots, etc). Then I solve and match my answer. I'm not the best at quant but I find this helps.
As for quant, I glance at answer for things like how far apart are they, do the answers contain variables, what kind of expressions do they have (squares, roots, etc). Then I solve and match my answer. I'm not the best at quant but I find this helps.
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There is a method I teach students to go through answer choices but how you precisely do so may depend on the situation. If you spot an idiom error in the SC prompt, for example, you may want to quickly skip down and see which answer choices are using it correctly.
