– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 4. Once you understand a question, try to answer it in your own

– THE GRE VERBAL SECTION – 4. Once you understand a question, try to answer it in your own words before looking at your answer choices. Distracter answers often take one of several forms: ■ They are close to the correct answer, but are wrong in some detail. ■ They are true, but do not answer the question. ■ They use language found in the text, but are not the correct answer. 5. As with all the multiple-choice questions on the GRE, elimination is an important strategy for the reading comprehension questions. Even if you don’t know the answer to a...