Verbal Reasoning · 130–170

GRE Verbal practice

Verbal is two sections under two separate clocks, and practising loose questions with no clock is why people who feel ready run out of time. Here it is a timed section, at the shortened GRE's real pace of about 90 seconds a question.

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The format we run on

Verbal section 1
18 minutes · 12 questions
Verbal section 2
23 minutes · 15 questions
Pace
About 90 seconds a question, in both
Item types
Reading Comprehension · Text Completion

Reported as130–170, in single points

What you get

Generated for your attempt, every attempt. Nothing here is a stored paper being handed round.

Reading Comprehension

Argument-driven passages rather than fact-driven ones, with questions that probe the claim — main idea, inference, and the function of a detail.

Text Completion

Standalone items on unrelated subjects, so one topic cannot carry you through the set.

Every answer explained

The line that proves the right answer, and why each wrong option is wrong. On the free plan too.

Under one clock

A section, not a worksheet. The pace is the point.

The clock, section by section

Taken from the published format and held to it. A clock that is generous by thirty seconds trains a habit that costs marks on the day.

SectionQuestionsTime
Verbal Reasoning 112 questions18 min
Verbal Reasoning 215 questions23 min

Sentence Equivalence is not here yet, and here is why

Sentence Equivalence asks for two answers out of six, and multi-blank Text Completion needs one answer per blank — both need partial-credit grading, which our grader does not do. A question the grader cannot score correctly is worse than a question that is absent, so they are left out and said so rather than included and marked wrongly.

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  • One section practice a day
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  • The explanation and the proving line for every answer
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Questions, answered

Is the GRE Verbal practice free?

Yes. One section practice a day on the free plan, with the explanation and the proving line for every answer. No card and no expiry.

Which GRE Verbal question types are covered?

Reading Comprehension and Text Completion. Sentence Equivalence and multi-blank Text Completion need partial-credit grading and are not generated yet — we would rather say that than mark them wrongly.

Is this the shortened GRE?

Yes. Verbal is two sections, 12 questions in 18 minutes and 15 in 23, which is about 90 seconds a question in both.

Are these real past GRE questions?

No. Every passage and item is generated for your attempt, so nothing is reproduced from ETS and no answer key exists for your set.

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