Thursday, December 18, 2014
GRE Materials You Must Need To Score A High GRE Score-2015
- ETS GRE official guide, second edition ( must)
- ETS GRE paper based practice test ( 1st & 2nd edition)
- ETS GRE verbal reasoning practice ( must )
- ETS GRE quantitative reasoning practice ( must)
- Powerprep Software (must)
- Manhattan Prep GRE guides 1 to 8 ( highly recommended)
- Manhattan Prep 6 CAT tests ( highly recommended)
- 5LB practice of GRE guide by Manhattan Prep ( highly recommended)
- GRE verbal grail by Aristotle Prep ( recommended)
- LSAT logical reasoning bible by Powerscore (recommended for CR)
- GMAT official guide 2015 (recommended for CR, RC, Quant)
- LSAT preptest 45 to 60 for advanced reading comprehension practice
- Magoosh GRE video lessons ( recommended for Quant)
Monday, December 15, 2014
Challenge Problem of the Week
Brenda and Sally run in opposite directions on a circular track, starting at diametrically opposite points. They first meet after Brenda has run 100 meters. They next meet after Sally has run 150 meters past their first meeting point. Each girl runs at a constant speed. What is the length of the track in meters?
A) 250
B) 300
C) 350
D) 400
E) 500
Friday, August 1, 2014
Quantitative Problems for Practice
1. A box contains exactly five chips, three red and two white. Chips are randomly removed one at a time without replacement until all the red chips are drawn or all the white chips are drawn. What is the probability that the last chip drawn is white?
a. 3/10
b. 2/5
c. 1/2
d. 3/5
e. 7/10
2. How many positive integers not exceeding 2001 are multiples of 3 or 4 but not 5?
(A) 768 (B) 801 (C) 934 (D) 1067 (E) 1167
3. A charity sells 140 benefit tickets for a total of $2001. Some tickets sell for full price (a whole dollar amount), and the rest sell for half price. How much money is raised by the full-price tickets?
(A) $782 (B) $986 (C) $1158 (D) $1219 (E) $1449
4. In triangle ABC, LABC = 45°. Point D is on BC so that 2. BD = CD and /DAB = 15°. What is /ACB?
(A) 54° (B) 60° (C) 72° (D) 75° (E) 90°
5. Consider sequences of positive real numbers of the form x, 2000, y..... in which every term after the first is 1 less than the product of its two immediate neighbors. For how many different values of x does the term 2001 appear somewhere in the sequence?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4
Text Completion practice of the month
Difficulty: Easy
1. Both loquacious and shy, Mr. Smith was an obscure personality for the employees. While he was _____(i) ___in the public relationship seminar, organized by his company, he was so _____ (ii) ______when he had to detail the tax policy to the officers. This ___ (iii) ____personality ultimately led him to the downfall.
1. Both loquacious and shy, Mr. Smith was an obscure personality for the employees. While he was _____(i) ___in the public relationship seminar, organized by his company, he was so _____ (ii) ______when he had to detail the tax policy to the officers. This ___ (iii) ____personality ultimately led him to the downfall.
(i)
boaster
garrulous
punctilious
|
(ii)
laconic
neat picky
cantankerous
|
(iii)
amiable
ambiguous
dogged
|
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Challenge Problem of the Week
Alice organized a yard sale of her old books on Saturday and Sunday, and expected to sell an equal number of books on each day. However, due to heavy rains on Saturday she could sell only 20% of her books that day. She managed to sell the rest of them on Sunday. Had she sold 36 more books on Saturday, she would have met her expectation. Find the number of books she sold altogether.
a) 80
b) 90
c) 100
d) 120
e) 150
Friday, July 11, 2014
Long Reading Comprehension Main Idea Practice
2:31 AM
By
GYAN
Advanced reading comprehension,
gre main idea,
reading comprehension,
reading comprehension main idea question,
verbal
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Following the strategy posted in previous blog , find the main idea of the following passage.
What is the main idea of the passage?








