Acing the GRE - Part 1
If you're a confused, about-to-graduate (about=86,400 x 365 seconds) good-for-nothing... (and I just happen to be a paragon of that very virtue), and have your fingers stuck in too many pies(metaphorically, ok??); then I can bet my boots(not designer, nah!) on you getting ready to ace the GRE... Generally Recondite Esoterica. And that's about as General as it gets!!So, to fulfill dreams of minting $$$$ (ahem!! don't get greedy and demand for more $s); you'll want to give this 'un your BEST shot. Here's one, from someone who's fresh from the battle-field and has seen it all, and done it all.. :P
First of all.. you have to know WHAT the GRE consists of. I've laid out the pattern here for you:
Section I: Analytical Writing Assessment (75 mins)
Task 1: Present your perspective on the following issue. (45 mins)
"Nosology is an essential study that contributes towards society's development. It must be included as an essential part of under-graduate curriculum."
Note: Puhleeez make sure you understand the topic before venturing upon writing, a coherent essay.
Task 2: Criticize the following argument:
"By deductive syllogism, it can be proved that Man (even as we discuss this) has active nerve endings where he once had a prehensile tail. Through millenia of constant metamorphosis, the human form precluded redundant forms of biological adaptations. It has been found in a survey, that nine out of ten people all over the world, experience increased stress on activating the aforementioned nerves. Also, the effect has been found to be more in times of greater dorsal inactivity."
Note: You're telling me you didnt figure that out, neither can I.. unless of course you rise to my lowly thinking.. LOL!!
Section II: Verbal (30 questions - 30 mins)
This section typically comprises three kinds of questions: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Completion and Analogy questions.
Reading Comprehension:
Females of most animal species have been found to have greater privilege in terms of choice of mates, and the area that will be susbsequently marked as their "realm". Apart from this, some females are also found to have greater physical strength than their male counterparts. This biological inclination, is evident in the results of biological study performed on wild as well as domestic animals, especially on the spiders in the forest areas of Colorado, USA and elephant seals along the Arctic coast. Questions have been raised, and hypotheses proposed to explain this phenomena. However, it can be gathered that as is the case with other species, human females have a more stimulative cortex; and hence enjoy greater freedom of choice where dominating males do not suppress female individuality.
Questions:
- Why, according to the author, are females blessed with greater advantage of choice?
- Males are basically psychologically deficient and physiologically abundant.
- Females are also blessed with greater mental abilites.
- Males lack restraint.
- Males are not deserving of greater privilege.
Note: You may find that more than one answer is correct, however only ONE choice is allowed. Be prudent.
Sentence Completion:
Rowan Atkinson is undoubtably the most _______ actor of all time, his _______ prowess is manifest in the potrayal of one of the greatest comic characters: Mr. Bean.
(a) awful ... awesome
(b) extravagant ... artless
(c) zesty ... sanguine
(d) versatile ... indisputably marvellous acting
Analogy:
Dyspepsia::E-coli
(a) Malaria::Anopheles
(b) Meningitis::Beckham
(c) Aphasia::The Waffle Iron
(d) Acacia::Germination
Section III: Quantitative (28 questions - 45 mins)
Note: Now, Math is what warriors of my ilk don't even consider worth fretting about. So, if you're reading this, you had better be a number-wizard, an algebra-expert and a geometry-pro.. Hee hee.... that just means to tell you, that I'm not covering this section.
posted by Cos Θ @ 9:22 PM
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Did you get to face all those in the GRE..:O
I wud have walked out with a blank on my face and the score sheet..:D
Oh no!!! Getting q's like that on the GRE is like getting q's about ocean biology on the EAMCET-MPC test!! :P
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