GRE GMAT TESTs AND SOLUTIONs

Frustrated by her husband’s lack of ____(i)____, Lisa tried to motivate him to ____(ii)____ for greater things. Blank(i) initiative   lassitude   eloquence Blank(ii) mitigate   invigorate   strive

Just as different people can have very different personalities, so too can pets—even those of the same species and breed possess varied _______. A-initiations B-implementations C-aptitudes D-rationalizations E-temperaments

Proponents of the International Style in architecture called for reducing buildings to purely functional form and found beauty in highlighting ____(i)_____ features. They rejected references to _____(ii)____ and historical styles and offered designs indifferent to location, a quality subsequently ____(iii)_____ by those who viewed the style as bland or unappealing. Blank 1    structural       aesthetic       hackneyed Blank 2    oracular        vernacular     secular Blank 3    disparaged    embraced      reclaimed

As a general rule, ballpark first and calculate second. Naturally you should end up ballparking more at then end of the section and calculating more at the beginning, but it’s a good rule of thumb. Ballparking can take many forms. The first benefit to Ballparking is that you can’t do it if you don’t understand the question. The basic process of trying to come up with a ballpark range for an answer involves arriving at a conceptual understanding of what the question is asking. If you are at the tail end of a section, you might stop here and pick an answer. If you are in your first ten, you might use this as a way of figuring out how to go about determining the actual answer. Always, Ballparking is a valuable way to check your work. GRE questions tend to make sense. The correct answer to a question asking for the number of students in a class will not contain a fraction (ETS won’t generally chop a student in half). A question in which a person bicycles uphill one way and downhill on the