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How did you find the RC questions in GRE Verbal Grail vis-a-vis the questions in the actual GRE ?

Thank you for posting the videos. Really great.

Sorry, how can u get 20 marks in verbal ? The minimum that you get on verbal is 130 ?

I think the new format of the GRE is not very much about vocabulary and whatever vocab is there is contextual. Focus on RCs as 50% of the questions are reading comprehension types. Doing all the words from the barron's list will not be the best utilization of time. I'm been really focusing on RC through GRE Verbal Grail and trying to master different types of questions and yeah there's hell load of them- primary purpose, inference, detailed, function, bold face, strengthen weaken, highlighting a sentence so right now i am focusing on mastering the strategy for tackling each of these question types. For vocab, I'm doing norman lewis alongwith the 1000 words at the end of the gre verbal grail. Alongwith that I'm reading the newspaper op-eds daily and i really see the words that i learn in application there..Really cements the words for me Apart from this, what you can also do is form a study group. I have found 2 other of my classmates who are prepping for the GRE and we really keep each other motivated. Hope that helps! :)

[source Passage#29 GRE Verbal Grail] One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the pleasure derived from being noticed. Perhaps it is not merely common, but universal. In its mildest form it doubtless is universal. Every child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused wondering talk. This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another. It is this madness for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and village mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle champions, and bandit chiefs, and frontier desperadoes, and Napoleons. Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township, or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting, "Look—there he goes—that is the man!" 1) Which of the following would the author most likely agree with, based on the information in the second paragraph? A. Charities are not always founded out of purely altruistic motives B. The desire to be noticed can be a motivator for children as well C. Bicycle champions want to become notorious D. There would be no wars if people did not want to become famous E. The desire to be noticed can be characterized as madness Can anyone explain why option A is the right answer? I'm confused

[source: GRE Verbal Grail Passage #24] The Cyclopses, according to mythology, were a race of bad-tempered and rather stupid one-eyed giants. Not, perhaps, a great portend for a new generation of robots. But Andrew Davison, a computer scientist at Imperial College, London, thinks one eye is enough for a robot, provided its brain can think fast enough. For a robot to work autonomously, it has to understand its environment. Stereoscopic vision, integrating the images from two “eyes” looking at the same thing from different angles, is one approach to achieve this, but it involves a lot of complicated computer processing. The preferred method these days, therefore, is SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), which uses sensors such as laser-based range finders that “see” by bouncing beams of light off their surroundings and timing the return. For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply. 1. Which of the following assertions can be made from the information in the passage? A. A Robots with two eyes is most likely making use of stereoscopic vision B. Cyclopses were mythical beings with one eye and small stature C. SLAM is probably simpler than Stereoscopic vision OA is A and C. Can anyone explain how can option C be inferred from the passage ? Also please let me know what does "assertion" mean ? Does it mean "inference" ?

Among the men and women prominent in the public life of America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. The sensational press has surrounded her name with so much misrepresentation and slander, it would seem almost a miracle that, in spite of this web of calumny, the truth breaks through and a better appreciation of this much maligned idealist begins to manifest itself. There is but little consolation in the fact that almost every representative of a new idea has had to struggle and suffer under similar difficulties. Is it of any avail that a former president of a republic pays homage at Osawatomie to the memory of John Brown? Or that the president of another republic participates in the unveiling of a statue in honour of Pierre Proudhon, and holds up his life to the French nation as a model worthy of enthusiastic emulation? Of what avail is all this when, at the same time, the LIVING John Browns and Proudhons are being crucified? The honour and glory of a Mary Wollstonecraft or of a Louise Michel are not enhanced by the City Fathers of London or Paris naming a street after them—the living generation should be concerned with doing justice to the LIVING Mary Wollstonecrafts and Louise Michels. Posterity assigns to men like Wendel Phillips and Lloyd Garrison the proper niche of honour in the temple of human emancipation, but it is the duty of their contemporaries to bring them due recognition and appreciation while they live. 1. Select the sentence in the passage that most accurately describes the primary concern of the author in writing the passage. 2. Why does the author mention ‘the President of another country’ in the passage? A. To assert that every proponent of a new idea has had to face difficulties in the past B. To state that Pierre Proudhon had been unfairly treated by his contemporaries when he was alive C. To demonstrate that a situation discussed earlier in the passage is prevalent in all countries D. To provide an example of an incident in which the good work of a person was appreciated only after his death E. To demand that Pierre Proudhon be given some compensation for the unjust treatment meted out to him when he was alive For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply. 3. With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree? A. The press is primarily responsible for the negative reception that new ideas are greeted with B. Emma Goldman’s contemporaries are partly to be blamed for the way she was treated when she was alive C. Nobody knows the real Emma Goldman

Hi nitesh100, Congrats on the great score.. I really liked your strategy for verbal... Very systematic and focused... Learnt quite a lot. Thanks

I think that you need to work on your basics first because 155 on Quant is quite low..152 on verbal also means that you will need to work on your english and vocabulary...start reading NYT, the economist etc alongwith prepping for the gre..that would help you immensely

Artistic movies are composed of a multitude of ‘shots‘ or discrete scenes usually lasting only 6 to 20 seconds; together the hundreds of individual scenes combine to make up the movie. For each shot the director has many options on how to film the same. For example, imagine that the movie‘s script calls for two actors to speak a fixed dialogue in a specified location. Even while the director stays true to the script, he has considerable leeway in how to film the scene. He may film an ‘extreme long shot‘, with the camera far away. This tends to show the setting in a panorama, emphasizing the background while underplaying the actors, and is used primarily in outdoor scenes where the backdrop is particularly impressive. Or, he may employ the ‘long shot‘, which brings the camera close enough to capture the actor‘s entire bodies, together with some of the setting. And finally there is the ‘close-up‘, where the camera is brought in close enough to focus on the actors‘ heads and faces and has the effect of spotlighting a particular actor while hiding the setting and other actors. 1. The passage discussion most clearly suggests that the most important aspect of filmmaking is A. figuring out what moviegoers are going to love B. deciding how to make a movie artistic C. using a good director D. signing a top actor for the lead role E. using a great cameraman I marked option B for this question but the OA is option C. Can anyone explain ? 2) Which of the following can be inferred from the information in the passage? A. For a scene in which it is important to highlight the facial expression of an actor, it is best to use the close up shot B. A director shooting a movie in Zurich for its beautiful locales should use a lot of extreme long shots C. A fight scene between two actors in a nondescript setting should be best filmed in a long shot I marked A, C . But all three options are correct. How can option B be inferred from the passage ?

can you guys please let me know whether the answer to question no 43 of rc passage 20 in gre verbal grail is correct..i think D should be the right answer...