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Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence

Text Completion: one blank

Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence · Lesson 2 of 5

Lesson 2 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 blankReading · 0%
Text Completion: two and three blanks1 h 20 min of study
Sentence Equivalence1 h 10 min of study
High-yield GRE vocabulary1 h 30 min of study

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

Lesson 2 of 5 · Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence

Text Completion: one blank

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

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By the end you’ll be able to

Solve one-blank items by predicting from context and then matching the prediction to one of five choices
Eliminate choices that fit the grammar but not the logic, match the topic but carry the wrong charge (positive or negative), or have the wrong intensity
Handle secondary meanings of familiar words (qualify, check, sanction, temper, arresting, discrete versus discreet)

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Work 2–5 sentence passages where the clue is in a different sentence from the blank

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