sneakyhobbitses

Hi everyone. I'm new here but looking for a place to post this particular query, this site looked very promising. I'm scoring solidly in the 90th percentile in GRE verbal which would usually be fine. However, I'm pusuring a PhD in English Lit so I very much would like to bump my score up three or four points to be at least in the pile of candidates Yale, Harvard, etc. will look at when they consider. Basically, I need to be 95th percentile. I'm having "trouble" with multiple choice in Reading Comp., specifically the question types where you have multiple answers that you have to infer. I nearly always get one right, but its seems that the ones that you have to "infer" or "imply" a bit more than what is in the sentence I have trouble with. I know that this is impossibly vague but can someone concretely(ish) describe for me how far you are allowed to "infer" or "extrapolate" when it comes to inference on GRE? I just finished taking the LSAT wherein you are not allowed to infer anything that is not explicitly stated by the passage (weirdly). I think it's throwing me off. Any sort of tips or tricks about inference on GRE would be much appreciated. I can't seem to quite get a handle on the level of inference you are allowed to make--which seems quite stupid given that I've devoted the last three years of my life to making literary influences. Many thanks! S.H.