GRE test takers experienced the new question types introduced this November. The introduction of new question types in the Sentence Completion and Quantitative sections was a well planned and systematic move by Education Testing Service (ETS) after their withdrawal of the proposed sudden and big changes in April 2007 worldwide.This time the changes have been introduced in a very test-taker-friendly manner. The changes occurred in the form of at most one question each (either there will be one question of new type or none) in the Quantitative reasoning and Verbal reasoning modules of the test.
Moreover, in the initial takes (not clearly specified) of the test the new question type will not contribute to the test taker's score but the catch here is that test takers will not know when it actually started contributing to their score. In any case, it is time to get accustomed to the new types and start practicing them more often during your preparation for GRE.
Some Practice Questions for the New GRE Question Types (Verbal)GRE Verbal: NEW* Sentence Completion
1. The company's strategy __(Blank 1)__ focusing on the changing market, establishing __(Blank 2)__ distribution partnerships, making well timed investments and developing __(Blank 3)__ product features.
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Combined | Crucial | Experimental |
Amalgamated | Constant | Novel |
Considered | Essential | Innovative |
2. Progressive business leaders welcome constructive __(Blank 1)__ as a __(Blank 2)__ that leads to __(Blank 3)__ improvements in the quality of their decision making process.
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Dissonance | System | Significant |
Discord | Pattern | Ominous |
Dissent | Process | Prized |
3. The deal was a __(Blank 1)__ to show he had a gift for __(Blank 2)__ after years spent bringing order to __(Blank 3)__ groups of companies lacking strong coordination from the centre.
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Chance | Coalition | Different |
Platform | Coercion | Diverse |
Coincidence | Cohesion | Disparate |
4. Ultimately, in the __(Blank 1)__ against global poverty, it is the affected __(Blank 2)__, that have to pull themselves up and out of the __(Blank 3)__ swamp.
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Initiative | Countries | Penury |
Strike | Provinces | Paupery |
War | Regions | Privation |
5. The current makeover addresses inferior __(Blank 1)__ of service and __(Blank 2)__, lack of appropriate training, poor time management and __(Blank 3)__ pricing.
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Quality | Material | Unrealistic |
Pattern | Item | Quixotic |
Nature | Product | Improbable |
6. Some companies are __(Blank 1)__ on manufacturing industrial equipment in India with the objective of reducing cost and making the country their __(Blank 2)__ hub for __(Blank 3)__ equipment to neighboring countries.
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Dependent | Sourcing | Distributing |
Keen | Original | Transferring |
Relying | Recruiting | Exporting |
7. The earliest known Greek __(Blank 1)__ are Mycenaean, written on clay tablets, and __(Blank 2)__ records, but cannot be __(Blank 3)__ literature.
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Runics | Document | Labeled |
Transcripts | Register | Termed |
Writings | Classify | Deemed |
8. The Phoenician alphabet, a __(Blank 1)__ of the Semitic alphabet of the Canaanite area was __(Blank 2)__ throughout the Mediterranean world by the traders sailing along the __(Blank 3)__ trade routes.
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Genre | Exchanged | Naval |
Category | Disseminated | Maritime |
Variant | Disbursed | Aquatic |
9. A method suggested to enhance __(Blank 1)__ productivity is to build one's __(Blank 2)__ by working to the body's natural bio-rhythm of the __(Blank 3)__ and renewing of energy throughout the day.
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Tangible | Power | Expending |
Physical | Vigor | Using |
Material | Energy | Conserving |
10. Aristotle clearly __(Blank 1)__ that the __(Blank 2)__ plot is better than the simple one; in it there is the sudden reversal of situation and the __(Blank 3)__ of the truth.
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Indicates | Puzzling | Unveiling |
Concedes | Complex | Discovery |
Testifies | Difficult | Exposition |
11. The __(Blank 1)__ of feminist scholarship and funds for __(Blank 2)__, gave a new __(Blank 3)__ to the new ways of thinking about women.
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Fostering | Development | Incentive |
Advocacy | Advancement | Stimulant |
Patronage | Education | Impetus |
12. The __(Blank 1)__ Indian Scriptures __(Blank 2)__ the original dance forms as the manifestation of the __(Blank 3)__ rhythmic energy.
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Ancient | Portray | Pristine |
Archaic | Depict | Primal |
Venerable | Limn | Paramount |
13. Freud's work was __(Blank 1)__ by Rousseau's and the widely __(Blank 2)__ notion of hidden, __(Blank 3)__ forces at work in human nature.
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Vaunted | Asserted | Mysterious |
Influenced | Ubiquitous | Occult |
Stimulated | Prevalent | Recondite |
14. The corporation's __(Blank 1)__ franchise partner has decided to exit the mass production business and __(Blank 2)__ only on the __(Blank 3)__ brands.
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Model | Concentrate | Premium |
Prototype | Insist | Popular |
Original | Rely | Profitable |
15. One __(Blank 1)__ of record breaking skyscrapers is that they can say as much about __(Blank 2)__ as they can about wealth, __(Blank 3)__ and technology.
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Notion | Hubris | Ambition |
Perception | Haughtiness | Intention |
Impression | Arrogance | Purpose |
* Only Three blank questions are given here. As per the changed pattern, the other two ways possible are two blank questions and passage type questions.
