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GRE measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills

Test pattern

Verbal section--
30 questions in 30 mins
Score range: 200 – 800 Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence Completion, Reading Comprehension

Quantitative Section--
28 questions in 45 mins
Score range: 200 – 800
Quantitative Comparison, Discrete Math, Data Interpretation

Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA)--
2 essays
Analysis of an Issue (45 mins.)
Analysis of an Argument (30 mins.)

Total score range for the test: 400 – 1600 (Verbal + Quantitative); 0 – 6 (AWA)

GRE Exam Question Paper

SECTION 1
Time –30 minutes
38 Questions
1.While scientists dismiss as fanciful the idea of sudden
changes in a genetic code (spontaneous mutation), it
is possible that nature, like some master musician,
---- on occasion, departing from the expected or
predictable.
(A) repeats
(B) improvises
(C) ornaments
(D) corrects
(E) harmonizes
2. Despite the ---- of time, space, and history, human
societies the world over have confronted the same
existential problems and have come to remarkably
---- solutions, differing only in superficial details.
(A) continuity.. identical
(B) uniformity.. diverse
(C) actualities.. varied
(D) contingencies.. similar
(E) exigencies.. unique
3. Although he was known to be extremely ---- in his
public behavior, scholars have discovered that his
diaries were written with uncommon ----.
(A) reserved.. frankness
(B) polite.. tenderness
(C) modest.. lucidity
(D) reticent.. vagueness
(E) withdrawn.. subtlety
4. With the ---- of scientific knowledge, work on
the new edition of a textbook begins soon after
completion of the original.
(A) limitation
(B) culmination
(C) veneration
(D) certainty
(E) burgeoning
5. She is most frugal in matters of business, but in her
private life she reveals a streak of ----.
(A) antipathy
(B) misanthropy
(C) virtuosity
(D) equanimity
(E) prodigality
6. If the state government's latest budget problems
were ----, it would not be useful to employ them as
----examples in the effort to avoid the inevitable
effects of shortsighted fiscal planning in the future.
(A) typical.. representative
(B) exceptional.. aberrant
(C) anomalous.. illuminating
(D) predictable.. helpful
(E) solvable.. insignificant
7. Just as some writers have ---- the capacity of
language to express meaning, Giacometti ---- the
failure of art to convey reality.
(A) scoffed at .. abjured
(B) demonstrated.. exemplified
(C) denied.. refuted
(D) proclaimed.. affirmed
(E) despaired of .. bewailed
8. WALLET: MONEY::
(A) bank: vault
(B) suitcase: clothing
(C) checkbook: balance
(D) wealth: prestige
(E) envelope: stamp
9. INSTRUMENTALIST: SYMPHONY::
(A) author: drama
(B) photographer: cinema
(C) composer: concerto
(D) artist: painting
(E) dancer: ballet
10. PLATEAU: CHANGE:
(A) respite: activity
(B) asylum: security
(C) terminus: journey
(D) interval: time
(E) lull: rest
11. ISTHMUS: LAND::
(A) peninsula: island
(B) canal: river

(C) stratosphere: air
(D) strait: water
(E) tunnel: mountain
12. EMBARGO: COMMERCE::
(A) abstention: election
(B) strike: lockout
(C) boycott: development
(D) quarantine: contact
(E) blockade: port
13. DILATORY: PROCRASTINATE::
(A) recalcitrant: comply
(B) malcontent: complain
(C) ambivalent: decide
(D) inept: modify
(E) credulous: learn
14. NOMINAL: SIGNIFICANCE::
(A) titular: honor
(B) ephemeral: brevity
(C) divisible: continuity
(D) anomalous: distinction
(E) disjunctive: unity
15. PLAGIARISM: IDEAS::
(A) libel: words
(B) forgery: documents
(C) arson: buildings
(D) kidnapping: ransom
(E) rustling: cattle
16. POLITIC: OFFEND::
(A) distressing: terrify
(B) aloof: associate
(C) misunderstood: surmise
(D) vacuous: deplete
(E) trivial: bore
For many years, Benjamin Quarles' seminal
account of the participation of African Americans in the
American Revolution has remained the standard work
in the field. According to Quarles, the outcome of this
conflict was mixed for African American slaves who
enlisted in Britain's fight against its rebellious
American colonies in return for the promise of freedom:
the British treacherously resold many into slavery in the
West Indies, while others obtained freedom in Canada
and Africa. Building on Quarles' analysis of the latter
group, Sylvia Frey studied the former slaves who
emigrated to British colonies in Canada. According to
Frey, these refugees -the most successful of the African
American Revolutionary War participants-viewed
themselves as the ideological heirs of the American
Revolution. Frey sees this inheritances reflected in their
demands for the same rights that the American
revolutionaries had demanded from the British: land
ownership, limits to arbitrary authority and burdensome
taxes, and freedom of religion.
17.According to the passage, which of the following
is true about the African American Revolutionary
War participants who settled in Canada after the
American Revolution?
(A) Although they were politically unaligned with
either side, they identified more with British
ideology than with American ideology.
(B) While they were not immediately betrayed by
the British, they ultimately suffered the same
fate as did African American Revolutionary.
War participants who were resold into slavery
in the West Indies.
(C) They settled in Canada rather than in Africa
because of the greater religious freedom
available in Canada.
(D) They were more politically active than were
African American Revolutionary War participants
who settled in Africa.
(E) They were more successful than were African
American Revolutionary War participants who
settled Africa.
18.Which of the following is most analogous to the
relationship between the African American
Revolutionary War participants who settled in
Canada after the American Revolution and the
American revolutionaries, as that relationship is
described in the passage?
(A) A brilliant pupil of a great musician rebels
against the teacher, but adopts the teacher's
musical style after the teacher's unexpected
death.

(B) Two warring rulers finally make peace after a
lifetime of strife when they realize that they
have been duped by a common enemy.
(C) A child who has sided with a domineering
parent against a defiant sibling later makes
demands of the parent similar to those once
made by the sibling.
(D) A writer spends much of her life popularizing
the work of her mentor, only to discover late in
life that much of the older writer's work is
plagiarized from the writings of a foreign
contemporary.
(E) Two research scientists spend much of their
careers working together toward a common
goal, but later quarrel over which of them should
receive credit for the training of a promising
student.
19. The author of the passage suggests that which of the
following is true of Benjamin Quarles' work?
(A) It introduced a new and untried research method- ology.
(B) It contained theories so controversial that they
gave rise to an entire generation of scholarship
(C) It was a pioneering work that has not yet been
displaced by subsequent scholarship.
(D) It launched the career of a scholar who later wrote
even more important works.
(E) At the time it appeared, its author already enjoyed
a well-established reputation in the field.
20.Which of the following can be inferred from the
passage concerning Britain's rule in its Canadian
colonies after the American Revolution?
(A) Humiliated by their defeat by the Americans, the
British sharply curtailed civil rights in their Canadian
colonies.
(B) The British largely ignored their Canadian
colonies.
(C) The British encouraged the colonization of Canada
by those African Americans who had served on
the American side as well as by those who had
served on the British side.
(D) Some of Britain's policies in its Canadian colonies
were similar to its policies in its American colo- nies before the American Revolution.
(E) To reduce the debt incurred during the war, the
British imposed even higher taxes on the Cana- dian colonists than they had on the American
colonists.
Over the years, biologists have suggested two main
pathways by which sexual selection may have shaped the
evolution of male birdsong. In the first, male competition
and intrasexual selection produce relatively short, simple
songs used mainly in territorial behavior. In the second,
female choice and intersexual selection produce longer,
more complicated songs used mainly in mate attraction;
like such visual ornamentation as the peacock's tail, elabo- rate vocal characteristics increase the male's chances of
being chosen as a mate, and he thus enjoys more repro- ductive success than his less ostentatious rivals. The two
pathways are not mutually exclusive, and we can expect to
find examples that reflect their interaction. Teasing them
apart has been an important challenge to evolutionary biol- ogists.
Early research confirmed the role of intrasexual selection.
In a variety of experiments in the field, males responded
aggressively to recorded songs by exhibiting territorial
behavior near the speakers. The breakthrough for
research
into intersexual selection came in the development of a new
technique for investigating female response in the labor- atory. When female cowbirds raised in isolation in sound- proof chambers were exposed to recordings of male song,
they responded by exhibiting mating behavior. By quanti- fying the responses, researchers were able to determine
what particular features of the song were most important.
In further experiments on song sparrows, researchers found
that when expos ed to a single song type repeated several
times or to a repertoire of different song types, females
responded more to the latter. The beauty of the experi- mental design is that it effectively rules out confounding
variables; acoustic isolation assures that the female can
respond only to the song structure itself.
If intersexual selection operates as theorized, males with
more complicated songs should not only attract females
more readily but should also enjoy greater reproductive
success. At first, however, researchers doing fieldwork with
song sparrows found no correlation between larger reper- toires and early mating, which has been shown to be one
indicator of reproductive success; further, common measures

of male quality used to predict reproductive success, such
as weight, size, age, and territory, also failed to correlate
with song complexity.
The confirmation researchers had been seeking was
finally achieved in studies involving two varieties of war -
blers. Unlike the song sparrow, which repeats one of its
several song types in bouts before switching to another, the
warbler continuously composes much longer and more vari- able songs without repetition. For the first time, researchers
found a significant correlation between repertoire size and
early mating, and they discovered further that repertoire
size had a more significant effect than any other measure
of male quality on the number of young produced. The evi- dence suggests that warblers use their extremely elaborate
songs primarily to attract females, clearly confirming the
effect of intersexual selection on the evolution of birdsong.
21. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) showing that intrasexual selection has a greater
effect on birdsong than does intersexual selection
(B) contrasting the role of song complexity in several
species of birds
(C) describing research confirming the suspected rela- tionship between intersexual selection and the
complexity of birdsong
(D) demonstrating the superiority of laboratory work
over field studies in evolutionary biology
(E) illustrating the effectiveness of a particular
approach to experimental design in evolutionary
biology
22.The author mentions the peacock's tail in line 8 most
probably in order to
(A) cite an exception to the theory of the relationship
between intrasexual selection and male compe- tition
(B) illustrate the importance of both of the pathways
that shaped the evolution of birdsong
(C) draw a distinction between competing theories of
intersexual selection
(D) give an example of a feature that may have
evolved through intersexual selection by female
choice
(E) refute a commonly held assumption about the role
of song in mate attraction
23.According to the passage, which of the following is
specifically related to intrasexual selection?
(A) Female choice
(B) Territorial behavior
(C) Complex song types
(D) Large song repertoires
(E) Visual ornamentation
24.Which of the following, if true, would most clearly
demonstrate the interaction mentioned in lines 11-13?
(A) Female larks respond similarly both to short,
simple songs and to longer, more complicated
songs.
(B) Male canaries use visual ornamentation as well as
elaborate song repertoires for mate attraction.
(C) Both male and female blackbirds develop elabo- rate visual and vocal characteristics.
(D) Male jays use songs to compete among themselves
and to attract females.
(E) Male robins with elaborate visual ornamentation
have as much reproductive success as rivals with
elaborate vocal characteristics.
25. The passage indicates that researchers raised female
cowbirds in acoustic isolation in order to
(A) eliminate confounding variables
(B) approximate field conditions
(C) measure reproductive success
(D) quantify repertoire complexity
(E) prevent early mating
26. According to the passage, the song sparrow is unlike
the warbler in that the song sparrow
(A) uses songs mainly in territorial behavior
(B) continuously composes long and complex songs
(C) has a much larger song repertoire
(D) repeats one song type before switching to another
(E) responds aggressively to recorded songs
27.The passage suggests that the song sparrow experiments
mentioned in lines 37-43 failed to confirm the role
of intersexnal selection because
(A) females were allowed to respond only to the
song structure
(B) song sparrows are unlike other species of birds
(C) the experiments provided no evidence that

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elaborate songs increased male reproductive
success
(D) the experiments included the songs of only a small
number of different song sparrows
(E) the experiments duplicated some of the limitations
of previous field studies
28. STRINGENT:
(A) lax
(B) elusive
(C) impartial
(D) evident
(E) vast
29. INTERIM:
(A) obscure
(B) permanent
(C) prudent
(D) resolute
(E) secure
30. SCATHING:
(A) easily understood
(B) politely cooperative
(C) intentionally involuted
(D) calmly complimentary
(E) strongly partisan
31. CAPITULATE:
(A) enjoin
(B) resist
(C) observe closely
(D) consider carefully
(E) appraise critically
32. RECONSTITUTE:
(A) detail
(B) invent
(C) spoil
(D) conform
(E) dehydrate
33. REPUTE:
(A) lack of caution
(B) lack of knowledge
(C) lack of emotion
(D) lack of generosity
(E) lack of distinction
34. TAME:
(A) resolute
(B) ruinous
(C) racy
(D) erratic
(E) experienced
35. INDURATE:
(A) soften
(B) puncture
(C) denude
(D) immure
(E) exchange
36. PROLIXITY:
(A) succinctness
(B) profundity
(C) persuasiveness
(D) complacency
(E) cleverness
37. CALLOW:
(A) displaying keen intelligence
(B) behaving with adult sophistication
(C) reacting cheerfully
(D) showing foresight
(E) deciding quickly
38. FRIABLE:
(A) not easily crumbled
(B) not easily torn
(C) not easily melted
(D) not easily eroded
(E) not easily punctured