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i got my actual score out of 340... quant: 162 (percentile 87) verbal : 156(percentile 72) awt : 3.5 (percentile 29)..... i cant evaluate my performance....kindly help me guys!!!

Hi guys, just took the GRE @ 20th september...my scores are quant:750-800 and verbal:520-640....actually i m quite confused regarding my performance...is this a good score???...or one has to wait until november for the real scores????

Passage: Modern archaeological finds can still contribute much to the study of ancient literature. For example, forty years ago a survey of the early Greek dramatist Aeschylus' plays would have started with The Suppliant Women. Many factors internal to the play, but perhaps most especially the prominence of the chorus (which in this play has the main role), led scholars to consider it one of Aeschylus' earlier works. The consensus was that here was a drama truly reflecting an early stage in the evolution of tragedy out of choral lyric. The play was dated as early as the 490's BC, in any event (in any event: in any case), well before Aeschylus' play The Persians of 472 BC Then, in 1952, a fragment of papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus was published stating the official circumstances and results of a dramatic contest. The fragment announced that Aeschylus won first prize with his Danaid tetralogy, of which The Suppliant Women is the opening play, and defeated Sophocles in the process. Sophocles did not compete in any dramatic contest before 468 BC, when he won his first victory. Hence, except by special pleading (eg, that the tetralogy was composed early in Aeschylus' career but not produced until the 460's BC), the Danaid tetralogy must be put after 468 BC In addition, a few letters in the fragment suggest the name Archedemides, archon in 463 BC, thus perhaps tying the plays to that precise date, almost exactly halfway between Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes of 467 BC and his Oresteia. The implication of the papyrus administered a severe shock to the vast majority of classical scholars, who had confidently asserted that not only the role of the chorus but also language, metrics, and characterization all pointed to an early date. The discovery has resulted in no less than a total reevaluation of every chronological criterion that has been applied to or derived from Aeschylus' plays. The activity has been brisk, and a new creed has now spread. The prominence of the chorus in The Suppliant Women now is seen not as a sign of primitivism but as analogous to the massive choral songs of the Oresteia. Statistics have been formulated, or reformulated, to show that stylistically The Suppliant Women does actually occupy a position after The Persians and Seven Against Thebes, which now become the "primitive" plays, and before the Oresteia. While the new doctrine seems almost certainly correct, the one papyrus fragment raises the specter that another may be unearthed, showing, for instance, that it was a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles, and throwing the date once more into utter confusion. This is unlikely to happen, but it warns us that perhaps the most salutary feature of the papyrus scrap is its message of the extreme difficulty of classifying and categorizing rigidly the development of a creative artist. Question: 27. The allusion to the hypothetical papyrus fragment in line 45-49 does which of the following? (A) Supports an argument concerning the date of The Suppliant Women. (B) Refutes the views of the majority of scholars concerning the Oxyrhynchus papyrus find. © Predicts the future results of archaeological research proposed in the passage. (D) Undermines the validity of the currently accepted chronology of Aeschylus' works. (E) Qualifies (To modify, limit, or restrict, as by giving exceptions.) The author's agreement with the "new creed" developed since the Oxyrhynchus papyrus find. Ans: E Kindly explain the answer please. Why option D would be wrong???

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"In the early 1950's. historians who studied pre-industrial Europe........it is clear why the case history use of court records is to be preferred." Q> The passage would be most likely appear as part of a)a book review summarizing the achievements of historians of the European aristocracy b)an essay describing the trends in the practice of writing history c)a textbook on the application of statistical methods in the social sciences d)a report to the historical profession on the work of the early-twentieth-century historians e)an article urging the adoption of historical methods by the legal proffession.