GRE Verbal Grail

Book excerpt: The GRE Verbal Grail is a path breaking book that takes a structured approach to help you master the Verbal section of the GRE. The book spans over 350 pages and is divided into five parts: Part I- Text Completion Discusses strategies to tackle text completion questions and provides a set of 100 practice questions with detailed explanations Part II- Sentence Equivalence Discusses strategies to tackle Sentence Equivalence questions and provides a set of 100 practice questions with detailed explanations Part III- Reading Comprehension Discusses the secrets to reading GRE passages effectively and provides strategies to identify and tackle each RC question type - Global, Detail, Inference, Logic, Strengthen, Weaken, Boldface, Assumptions, etc. Also provides a set of 100 practices questions with detailed explanations. Part IV- Vocabulary Exclusive list of 500 high frequency words tested on the GRE along with another comprehensive word list of 1000 words. The section also provides a memory aid to remember the meaning of the words in the form a mnemonic, root, word group, etc. Part V- Quick Recall Summarizes all the topics in one place so that you can revise everything quickly How is this book superior to any other book for GRE Verbal? - Helps you master each topic in a step-by-step manner. The book first helps you build a strong foundation in each topic and then lets you apply and fine tune the concepts learnt on practice questions of varying difficulty levels - GRE Verbal Grail is the only book available that provides you with 300 practice questions - Unlike other books, GRE Verbal Grail has been written after taking feedback from candidates who have taken the GRE recently. This means that the questions and vocabulary given in the book are closest to what you are likely to see on the actual GRE.