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ACING THE GED EXAM phần 6 – THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 4. Once you understand a question, try to answer it in your own words before looking at your answer choices. Distracter answers often take one of several forms: ■ They are close to the correct answer, but are wrong in some detail. ■ They are true, but do not answer the question. ■ They use language found in the text, but are not the correct answer. 5. As with all the multiple-choice questions on the GRE, elimination is an important strategy for the reading comprehension questions. Even if you don’t know the answer to a particular question right away, you often will be able to eliminate one to three answer choices without even referring back to the passage. Then you know that one of the remaining answers is the correct one and you can spend your time more productively looking in the passage for information to back up your choice. 6. Expect to refer back to the passage on virtually every question. If you know the answer to a question without referring back, that’s fine, although it might be a good idea to check the passage anyway, just to make sure you haven’t fallen for a distracter answer. 7. Remember to read between the lines! With the sentence completion questions, you may remember that you must be extremely literal and never read anything into them or bring in any ideas that are not clearly expressed within the sentence itself. This is not true with reading comprehension questions. In fact, you will be asked to interpret almost every passage, to draw conclusions from the text, and to extend the author’s point of view to evaluate a statement that is not even in the passage. T ips and Strategies for the Official TestNow you have tried your hand at some practice questions. You had read strategies for each of the four kindsof Verbal questions and started to absorb them. You have already learned some new vocabulary. Here are the strategies you have learned for each type of question. As you read through the list, makesure you understand each one. If you encounter a strategy you don’t understand, go back to the lesson forthat type of question and read about the strategy one more time.Analogy Strategies Find the relationship between the stem (initial) pair of words. ■ Remember, words represent concrete or abstract things, which have relationships. ■ Find the answer pair with the same kind of relationship (analogous). ■ Be flexible about the meanings of words. ■ Check for a part-to-whole relationship. ■ Check for a relationship of contrast/antonyms/opposites. ■ Check for a type of relationship. ■ Check for a degree of relationship. ■ Check for a use or purpose relationship. ■ Check for a tool to worker relationship. ■ 116 – THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – To reveal relationship, make a sentence using both stem words. ■ Try reversing stem words if necessary to find their relationship. ■ If more than one answer is still a possibility, make your sentence more specific. ■ The more difficult the analogy is, the more specific the sentence must be. ■ One way to make more specific sentences is to use active verbs (not state-of-being verbs, such as is). ■ Check the answer pairs for a relationship parallel to the stem word’s relationship. ■ Remember, many words have two or more meanings. ■ Often, different meanings of the same word are different parts of speech. ■ If a stem word is not a difficult word, its appropriate meaning is likely to be a less-common usage of ■ the word. Make sure you are focusing on relationships, not on meanings. ■ Don’t choose distracter words with similar meanings to the stem word’s meanings. ■ Eliminate wrong answers as a way to find the right answer. ■ Think about the functions of the stem word and the answer choices. ■ Form visual images of the stem word and/or answer choices. ■ Stay flexible. If one strategy is not working, try another. ■Antonym Strategies The logical relationship embedded in each antonym question is one of opposition. ■ Train yourself so that alarms will go off in your head when you see a synonym as one of your ■ answer choices, and eliminate it. If the stem word has no diametrically opposed antonym, choose the word or phrase that is most ■ nearly opposite the stem word. Look for the concept among the answer choices that most nearly opposes the concept of the ■ stem word. Eliminate any answer choices that don’t have opposites. ■ If you can’t decide betwe ...