Hi All, we know that GRE is changed from August 1, 2011 .We wish to give you a feel about how it is now, so it can clear the picture in your mind. The revised GRE Verbal Reasoning section will consist following types of questions:
Changed RC section will consist of 3 types of questions:
Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.
The passage suggests that Glass’s work displays which of the following qualities? A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions
1) An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music.
2) A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles
Answer: A and C
2. Select-in-Passage: This is also a newly entered section in RC. This type of question will require to choose a sentence from the passage that meets the certain description. These types of questions will definitely give an idea to GRE evaluators to judge how well a student can understand the RC passage. Example:
Select the sentence from the above mention passage distinguishing two ways of integrating rock and classical music.
Answer:
Text Completion questions
Blank 1: temperance, notoriety, eminence
Blank 2: tumultuous, providential, dispassionate
Sentence Equivalence Questions
Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as __________.
- Reading Comprehension
- Text Completion
- Sentence Equivalence
Changed RC section will consist of 3 types of questions:
- Select one or more answer choice: In this newly introducing multiple choice type questions, students will be provided with three answer choices, and student will be asked to choose all the correct answer choices. Correct answer choice could be one, two or all three .So, students will have a privilege to choose more than one option. To score excellent in these types of questions students should focus on choosing only correct options as there would be no credit for a fractionally correct option. Example:
Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.
The passage suggests that Glass’s work displays which of the following qualities? A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions
1) An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music.
2) A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles
Answer: A and C
(Answer choice is more than one choice)
Select the sentence from the above mention passage distinguishing two ways of integrating rock and classical music.
Answer:
“His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.”
3. Select one answer choice: GRE‘s Reading Comprehension section will still go with traditional format, where students have to choose one option from provided five options.
The Text Completion question will include a passage comprising one to five sentences with one to three blanks .There will be three to five options per blank. Students have to choose the one option from the provided options to fill in the blank. While choosing the option, student must remember the context of passage to choose the correct option.
Example:
Vain and prone to violence, Caravaggio could not handle success: the more his (1)__________ as an artist increased, the more (2)__________ his life became.Blank 1: temperance, notoriety, eminence
Blank 2: tumultuous, providential, dispassionate
Answer: eminence and tumultuous
These types of questions will consist of a single sentence with one blank only. Student will be provided with six answer choices and from the six choices students have to pick just two answers .Do bear in mind there will be no credit for partially correct answer.
1) orthodox
2) eccentric
3)original
4)trifling
5)conventional
6)innovative
2) eccentric
3)original
4)trifling
5)conventional
6)innovative
Answer: C and F
These all changes that we have discussed above will be in effect from 1 August, 2011.It is already there, so Go for it guys........ Kindly post your views, comments below this blog.
