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Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence

Sentence Equivalence

Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence · Lesson 4 of 5

Lesson 4 of 5

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Unit 2

Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence

5 lessons · 6 h 10 min of study

Sentence logic, clues and signal words1 h of study
Text Completion: one blank1 h 10 min of study
Text Completion: two and three blanks1 h 20 min of study
Sentence EquivalenceReading · 0%
High-yield GRE vocabulary1 h 30 min of study

This unit is ≈23% of the GRE, across 5 lessons. Full syllabus

Lesson 4 of 5 · Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence

Sentence Equivalence

3 quick checks≈5% of the testCore: Core: tested on most papers

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By the end you’ll be able to

Select exactly two of six choices that each complete the sentence logically and give sentences alike in meaning
Predict the blank first, then find the two choices that match the prediction rather than any synonym pair
Reject synonym pairs that do not fit the sentence and single words that fit but have no partner with the same meaning

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Adaptive questions on Sentence Equivalence.

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Recognise that the two correct words need not be exact synonyms as long as both sentences mean the same thing

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