GMAT Verbal Instructions

The most effective instructions while answering the Verbal section of GMAT.

In the verbal section you will have 75 minutes to answer 41 questions. 11 of these questions are experimental and would not be counted towards your score.

There is no way to identify which questions are experimental as they are mixed in randomly through out the section.

This section includes three types of questions: Sentence Correction, Critical Reading, and Reading Comprehension.

Sentence correction questions test your ability to spot grammatical mistakes. The Critical reasoning questions test your ability to understand and analyze arguments. And the reading comprehension tests your ability to find information in a long passage.

One can calculate the exact answer for a math question but the credited answers for a verbal question seem very subjective and arbitrary. Here an answer choice is correct because it is better than other four answer choices.

The basic approach:

For sentence correction:
- to identify a grammar problem or rule – Eliminate answer choices containing that error.
- Compare the remaining answers,- choose the best answer.

For Critical Reasoning :
- Break the argument in conclusion, premise and assumptions, - state the answer in your words
- Eliminate the answer choices that do not match with your answer.

For reading Comprehension:
- Read the passage quickly to get the main idea, read and decipher the question.
- Find the answer in the passage – write answer in your own words.
- Eliminate the answer choices that do not match your answer.

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