Verbal
Text completion: Apply to one-blank, two-blank, and three-blank text completion, even for sentence equivalence:
- Read entire sentence
- Break down long sentence in your own words
- Focus on words you know - ignore ones you don’t
- Find clues - words or phrase in sentence
- Come up with own word that fits in the blank and then match own word with answer choices
- Eliminate - do not be afraid to pick word you do not know
- Think of overall tone - positive or negative
Shift vs no-shift sentences: Shift contains words that indicate that the elements of the sentence will be in contrast.
- not neural, contrasting, or not sufficiently similar
- but creates and indicates similarities between ideas
Cause and effect: Keywords: because, given that, as a result of, since, therefore, consequently, thus
Elaboration sentences: Keywords: hyphen, colon, semi-colon, indeed