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  1. 1.For decades the town of Veldmar blamed its shrinking harbor trade on the railway that bypassed it. A new study of the port's ledgers tells a different story: cargo began to fall ten years before the first rail was laid, when silt made the channel too shallow for larger ships. The railway did not start the decline; it merely made visible a loss already under way. Which choice best states the main point of the passage?
  2. 2.Critics who call the novelist Ilse Maren a miniaturist mean it as faint praise: her books are short, her casts small, her settings a single street. Yet the charge mistakes scale for ambition. In the space of one dinner party Maren stages a quarrel over an inheritance that lays bare how an entire class thinks about money. The author of the passage would most likely agree that Maren's novels
  3. 3.Surveys of a city's readers usually count library loans, because loans leave a record. Books passed between friends, bought secondhand or read aloud leave none. A survey built on loans will therefore describe the readers who borrow, and it is tempting, but wrong, to let them stand for everyone who reads. The second sentence of the passage serves mainly to
  4. 4.A manager at a parcel depot noticed that drivers given the newest vans finished their rounds faster than the others, and concluded that buying new vans for everyone would speed up all deliveries. Which finding, if true, would most weaken the manager's conclusion?
  5. 5.After a school moved its first lesson from 8:00 to 9:00, its average test scores rose. The principal credits the later start, arguing that rested students learn more. Which finding, if true, would most strengthen the principal's argument?
  6. 6.A museum's attendance fell in the year it began charging for admission. The director argues that dropping the charge will therefore bring attendance back to its former level. The director's argument assumes that
  7. 7.The committee's report was studiously neutral: it laid out each side's case in equal detail and declined to say which it found stronger. In the passage, "studiously" most nearly means
  8. 8.Early maps of the Sarn coast show a sea monster off the northern cape. It is easy to smile at the mapmaker's credulity, but the drawing did honest work: it marked water no pilot had charted and warned that the map's authority ended there. The author mentions the sea monster primarily to
  9. 9.Two laboratories measured the melting point of the same compound and reported values a full degree apart. Neither had erred. One had heated its sample quickly and the other slowly, and this compound gives a slightly higher reading when it is heated fast. The passage accounts for the disagreement by
  10. 10.Of the forty manuscripts in an abbey's catalog, the scribe Odalric signed only six. Yet his distinctive habit of dotting the letter y appears in twenty-two of them. Either Odalric copied far more than he signed, or other scribes had learned his habit. Which finding would best support the first explanation over the second?
  11. 11.Pollen cores from the bed of Lake Ormen show that hazel vanished from the surrounding hills within a single century, at the same depth at which charcoal first appears in quantity. The researchers stop short of blaming the first farmers, noting that a run of dry summers and wildfires would leave the same trace. It can be inferred that the researchers regard the charcoal as
  12. 12.Translators of the poet Halvard Renn face a choice his admirers prefer not to see. Keep his rhymes, and the plain words he prized must give way to rarer ones that happen to chime. Keep his plain words, and the rhymes go. No version has kept both, and the best ones say in a preface which they gave up. The passage is primarily concerned with
  13. 13.The new history of the canal company has been praised for its thoroughness, and it is thorough: every shareholder is named, every lock priced. But a reader who wants to know why the company failed will finish its six hundred pages no wiser. The author's attitude toward the history is best described as
  14. 14.Of the birds ringed on the island of Skerra one spring, fewer than a tenth were seen there the next year. The wardens do not conclude that the rest died. Most of the ringed birds were migrants pausing for a day, and a bird that winters a thousand miles away need not pass the same island twice. The wardens' reasoning depends on the point that
  15. 15.Far from being ______, the committee's decision followed months of public hearings and three published drafts. Which word best completes the sentence?
  16. 16.The biographer's portrait is anything but ______: every flaw of her subject is recorded alongside every triumph. Which word best completes the sentence?
  17. 17.Although the new director was known for her ______ in meetings, rarely speaking more than a sentence at a time, her written memos ran to many pages. Which word best completes the sentence?
  18. 18.The evidence for the theory remains ______: a handful of suggestive cases, none of them conclusive. Which word best completes the sentence?
  19. 19.The diplomat's reply was deliberately ______, phrased so that each side could read it as agreement with its own position. Which word best completes the sentence?
  20. 20.The reviewer found the film's plot (i) ______ but its photography (ii) ______: the story could be guessed within ten minutes, while nearly every frame held something never seen before. Which pair of words best completes the sentence?
  21. 21.The senator's speech was praised less for its substance than for its ______: it ran barely four minutes. Which word best completes the sentence?
  22. 22.The lecturer's explanation was so ______ that even students new to the subject followed every step. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  23. 23.Her colleagues admired her ______: she would rework a failed experiment a dozen times before setting it aside. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  24. 24.The mayor's apology struck many listeners as ______, delivered in a monotone and without a glance up from the page. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  25. 25.Reports of the company's collapse proved ______; within a year it had posted record profits. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  26. 26.The negotiator remained ______ throughout the talks, refusing every compromise the other side proposed. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  27. 27.The scholar's prose is so ______ that a single sentence may fill half a page. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning?
  28. 28.Quantity A is 2/3 of 3/4. Quantity B is 3/5 of 5/6.
  29. 29.n is an odd integer. Quantity A is the remainder when n² is divided by 8. Quantity B is 2.
  30. 30.Quantity A is (−2)⁵. Quantity B is (−2)⁴.
  31. 31.What is the least common multiple of 28 and 42?
  32. 32.A shop marks a $60 jacket up by 30 percent and later takes 10 percent off the marked price. What is the final price?
  33. 33.Which of these equals 0.00042?
  34. 34.A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 7 to 2 by weight. How much sugar goes with 315 grams of flour?
  35. 35.x < y < 0. Quantity A is x². Quantity B is y².
  36. 36.5x − 2 = 3x + 8. Quantity A is x. Quantity B is 4.
  37. 37.If 3x − 2y = 16 and x + 4y = −4, what is x + y?
  38. 38.If x² − 6x = 16 and x > 0, what is x?
  39. 39.For nonzero x and y, which expression equals (2x³y²)² / (4x⁴y)?
  40. 40.The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 87. What is the greatest of the three?
  41. 41.Which values of x satisfy 7 − 3x ≥ 1?
  42. 42.A square and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. Quantity A is the length of a side of the square. Quantity B is the length of a side of the triangle.
  43. 43.A circle has radius r, where r > 0. Quantity A is the number of units in its circumference. Quantity B is the number of square units in its area.
  44. 44.A right triangle has legs of length 9 and 40. Quantity A is the length of its hypotenuse. Quantity B is 41.
  45. 45.The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 to 3 to 4. What is the measure of the largest angle?
  46. 46.A rectangle is 3 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 48. What is its area?
  47. 47.A right circular cone has a base of radius 5 and a height of 12. What is its volume?
  48. 48.A cube has a volume of 125. What is its total surface area?
  49. 49.A list holds the five numbers 4, 4, 5, 9 and 13. Quantity A is the range of the list. Quantity B is the mean of the list.
  50. 50.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled. Quantity A is the probability that the numbers add to 7. Quantity B is the probability that the numbers add to 8.
  51. 51.What is the median of the six numbers 14, 3, 8, 21, 6 and 17?
  52. 52.A survey asked 80 commuters how they travel: 36 by bus, 24 by car, 12 by bike and 8 on foot. In a circle graph of the results, what is the central angle of the sector for bike?
  53. 53.A committee of 3 is chosen from 4 men and 3 women. How many of the possible committees have exactly 2 women?
  54. 54.A bag holds 4 red, 5 blue and 6 white chips. One chip is drawn at random. What is the probability that it is not blue?
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Verbal: reading comprehension 20

  • (1) The poet's reputation for spontaneity is undeserved. (2) She told interviewers that her poems arrived whole. (3) Readers have been glad to believe her. (4) Yet her notebooks hold eleven drafts of a single eight-line poem. (5) The legend has outlived her all the same. Which sentence gives evidence for the claim made in sentence 1? Answer: Sentence 4. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, the multiple-choice form of a Select-in-Passage question. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • A glassmaker's account book from the town of Tessick lists two prices for every bowl: one for bowls sold at the workshop door and a lower one for bowls sent to the coast. The difference was not generosity. Breakage on the road was the buyer's risk, and coastal buyers would not pay the door price for goods they might receive in pieces. According to the passage, bowls sent to the coast were priced lower because Answer: buyers there bore the risk of breakage on the road. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, understanding the meaning of sentences and entire texts. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • A manager at a parcel depot noticed that drivers given the newest vans finished their rounds faster than the others, and concluded that buying new vans for everyone would speed up all deliveries. Which finding, if true, would most weaken the manager's conclusion? Answer: The newest vans had been assigned to the drivers with the shortest routes. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying strengths and weaknesses of a position. The answer rests on the printed text.
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Verbal: reading comprehension, continued

  • A museum's attendance fell in the year it began charging for admission. The director argues that dropping the charge will therefore bring attendance back to its former level. The director's argument assumes that Answer: nothing other than the charge accounts for the fall in attendance. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying the author's assumptions. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • After a school moved its first lesson from 8:00 to 9:00, its average test scores rose. The principal credits the later start, arguing that rested students learn more. Which finding, if true, would most strengthen the principal's argument? Answer: Students reported sleeping about an hour longer on school nights after the change. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying strengths and weaknesses of a position. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • The committee's report was studiously neutral: it laid out each side's case in equal detail and declined to say which it found stronger. In the passage, "studiously" most nearly means Answer: deliberately. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, understanding the meaning of individual words. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "studious".
  • The composer's late quartets were long dismissed as the work of a tired man repeating himself. Listeners now hear the repetitions differently: a phrase returns each time with one note altered, so that what sounded like fatigue turns out to be a patient method of variation. According to the passage, the repetitions in the late quartets are now understood as Answer: a deliberate technique of gradual change. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, summarizing a passage. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Critics who call the novelist Ilse Maren a miniaturist mean it as faint praise: her books are short, her casts small, her settings a single street. Yet the charge mistakes scale for ambition. In the space of one dinner party Maren stages a quarrel over an inheritance that lays bare how an entire class thinks about money. The author of the passage would most likely agree that Maren's novels Answer: take on large subjects within narrow settings. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying the author's perspective. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Early maps of the Sarn coast show a sea monster off the northern cape. It is easy to smile at the mapmaker's credulity, but the drawing did honest work: it marked water no pilot had charted and warned that the map's authority ended there. The author mentions the sea monster primarily to Answer: suggest that an apparent error served a practical purpose. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, understanding the author's intent. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Every member of the rowing club who entered the regatta trained through the winter. Tomas, a member of the club, trained through the winter. Which conclusion can properly be drawn from these statements? Answer: The statements do not settle whether Tomas entered the regatta. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, drawing conclusions from the information provided. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • For decades the town of Veldmar blamed its shrinking harbor trade on the railway that bypassed it. A new study of the port's ledgers tells a different story: cargo began to fall ten years before the first rail was laid, when silt made the channel too shallow for larger ships. The railway did not start the decline; it merely made visible a loss already under way. Which choice best states the main point of the passage? Answer: The harbor's decline began with silting, before the railway arrived. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, distinguishing major from minor points. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • The new history of the canal company has been praised for its thoroughness, and it is thorough: every shareholder is named, every lock priced. But a reader who wants to know why the company failed will finish its six hundred pages no wiser. The author's attitude toward the history is best described as Answer: appreciative of its detail but dissatisfied. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying the author's perspective. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Of the birds ringed on the island of Skerra one spring, fewer than a tenth were seen there the next year. The wardens do not conclude that the rest died. Most of the ringed birds were migrants pausing for a day, and a bird that winters a thousand miles away need not pass the same island twice. The wardens' reasoning depends on the point that Answer: a bird not seen again may simply have gone elsewhere. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, drawing conclusions from the information provided. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Of the forty manuscripts in an abbey's catalog, the scribe Odalric signed only six. Yet his distinctive habit of dotting the letter y appears in twenty-two of them. Either Odalric copied far more than he signed, or other scribes had learned his habit. Which finding would best support the first explanation over the second? Answer: The dotted y appears only in manuscripts dated within Odalric's working years. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, developing and considering alternative explanations. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Older beekeepers in the Corrow valley held that moving a hive in summer must cut its honey yield. Records from the valley's cooperative, however, show yields unchanged after summer moves. The older view is not thereby refuted, its defenders reply: the cooperative moved only its strongest hives. The defenders' reply suggests that the cooperative's records Answer: may not be representative of hives in general. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, identifying strengths and weaknesses of a position. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Pollen cores from the bed of Lake Ormen show that hazel vanished from the surrounding hills within a single century, at the same depth at which charcoal first appears in quantity. The researchers stop short of blaming the first farmers, noting that a run of dry summers and wildfires would leave the same trace. It can be inferred that the researchers regard the charcoal as Answer: evidence that fits more than one cause. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, reasoning from incomplete data. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Sales of printed road atlases in the country of Belmora rose in the same years in which nearly every driver there began to carry a phone with maps. Which of the following, if true, best helps to explain the rise? Answer: Many buyers were collectors and gift givers who did not use the atlases to find their way. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, reasoning from incomplete data. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Surveys of a city's readers usually count library loans, because loans leave a record. Books passed between friends, bought secondhand or read aloud leave none. A survey built on loans will therefore describe the readers who borrow, and it is tempting, but wrong, to let them stand for everyone who reads. The second sentence of the passage serves mainly to Answer: identify kinds of reading that the usual measure leaves out. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, understanding how the parts of a text relate. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Translators of the poet Halvard Renn face a choice his admirers prefer not to see. Keep his rhymes, and the plain words he prized must give way to rarer ones that happen to chime. Keep his plain words, and the rhymes go. No version has kept both, and the best ones say in a preface which they gave up. The passage is primarily concerned with Answer: describing a trade-off that the poet's translators cannot avoid. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, summarizing a text. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • Two laboratories measured the melting point of the same compound and reported values a full degree apart. Neither had erred. One had heated its sample quickly and the other slowly, and this compound gives a slightly higher reading when it is heated fast. The passage accounts for the disagreement by Answer: pointing to a difference in method that explains both results. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Reading Comprehension, understanding the structure of a text. The answer rests on the printed text.

Verbal: text completion 11

  • Although the new director was known for her ______ in meetings, rarely speaking more than a sentence at a time, her written memos ran to many pages. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: reticence. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "reticence".
  • Because the two witnesses' accounts ______ each other at every point, the investigators treated the story as settled. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: corroborated. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "corroborate".
  • The biographer's portrait is anything but ______: every flaw of her subject is recorded alongside every triumph. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: hagiographic. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "hagiographic".
  • The diplomat's reply was deliberately ______, phrased so that each side could read it as agreement with its own position. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: equivocal. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "equivocal".
  • The engineer's warnings, once dismissed as (i) ______, were (ii) ______ when the first cracks appeared in the dam. Which pair of words best completes the sentence? Answer: alarmist … vindicated. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, two blanks. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "vindicate".
  • The evidence for the theory remains ______: a handful of suggestive cases, none of them conclusive. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: tenuous. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "tenuous".
  • Far from being ______, the committee's decision followed months of public hearings and three published drafts. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: precipitate. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "precipitate".
  • The once-thriving market town has grown ______ since the highway bypassed it; half its shopfronts now stand empty. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: moribund. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "moribund".
  • The reviewer found the film's plot (i) ______ but its photography (ii) ______: the story could be guessed within ten minutes, while nearly every frame held something never seen before. Which pair of words best completes the sentence? Answer: predictable … inventive. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, two blanks. The answer rests on the printed text.
  • The senator's speech was praised less for its substance than for its ______: it ran barely four minutes. Which word best completes the sentence? Answer: concision. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, one blank. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "concision".
  • Though the mayor's critics called the plan (i) ______, its costs had in fact been (ii) ______ by three independent auditors. Which pair of words best completes the sentence? Answer: reckless … vetted. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Text Completion, two blanks. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "vet".

Verbal: sentence equivalence 9

  • A ______ reader, she finished three or four books a week and still complained of having nothing to read. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: voracious, avid. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "voracious".
  • Her colleagues admired her ______: she would rework a failed experiment a dozen times before setting it aside. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: tenacity, persistence. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "tenacity".
  • The instructions were so ______ that no two assemblers built the shelf the same way. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: ambiguous, unclear. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "ambiguous".
  • The lecturer's explanation was so ______ that even students new to the subject followed every step. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: lucid, clear. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "lucid".
  • The mayor's apology struck many listeners as ______, delivered in a monotone and without a glance up from the page. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: perfunctory, cursory. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "perfunctory".
  • The negotiator remained ______ throughout the talks, refusing every compromise the other side proposed. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: obdurate, intransigent. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "intransigent".
  • Reports of the company's collapse proved ______; within a year it had posted record profits. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: unfounded, baseless. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "unfounded".
  • The scholar's prose is so ______ that a single sentence may fill half a page. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: prolix, verbose. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "prolix".
  • The treaty did little to ______ the tension between the two states, which resumed their border patrols within weeks. Which two words each complete the sentence and give it the same meaning? Answer: ease, allay. Source: ETS, Verbal Reasoning overview: Sentence Equivalence. Word meaning: Wiktionary, "allay".

Quantitative: arithmetic and algebra 20

  • 5x − 2 = 3x + 8. Quantity A is x. Quantity B is 4. Answer: Quantity A is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, solving linear equations. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • a and b are positive numbers, and a/b = 3/4. Quantity A is a + b. Quantity B is 7. Answer: It cannot be determined from what is given. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, ratio. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A car uses 15 liters of fuel to travel 240 kilometers. At that rate, how many liters does it use to travel 400 kilometers? Answer: 25. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, rate. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A pump fills 3/8 of a tank in 45 minutes. At that rate, how long does it take to fill the whole tank? Answer: 120 minutes. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, rate. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A recipe uses flour and sugar in the ratio 7 to 2 by weight. How much sugar goes with 315 grams of flour? Answer: 90 grams. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, ratio. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A shop marks a $60 jacket up by 30 percent and later takes 10 percent off the marked price. What is the final price? Answer: $70.20. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, percent. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Ana is 4 years older than twice Ben's age, and their ages add to 40. How old is Ana? Answer: 28. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, setting up equations to solve word problems. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • For nonzero x and y, which expression equals (2x³y²)² / (4x⁴y)? Answer: x²y³. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, operations with exponents. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • If 3x − 2y = 16 and x + 4y = −4, what is x + y? Answer: 2. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, solving simultaneous equations. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • If f(x) = x² − 3x and g(x) = 2x + 1, what is f(g(2))? Answer: 10. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, functions. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • If x² − 6x = 16 and x > 0, what is x? Answer: 8. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, solving quadratic equations. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • n is an odd integer. Quantity A is the remainder when n² is divided by 8. Quantity B is 2. Answer: Quantity B is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, properties of integers: remainders, odd and even integers. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Quantity A is (−2)⁵. Quantity B is (−2)⁴. Answer: Quantity B is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, exponents. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Quantity A is 2/3 of 3/4. Quantity B is 3/5 of 5/6. Answer: The two quantities are equal. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, arithmetic operations. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 87. What is the greatest of the three? Answer: 31. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, setting up equations to solve word problems. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • What is the least common multiple of 28 and 42? Answer: 84. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, properties of integers: factorization. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Which of these equals 0.00042? Answer: 4.2 × 10⁻⁴. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Arithmetic, decimal representation and exponents. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Which values of x satisfy 7 − 3x ≥ 1? Answer: x ≤ 2. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, solving linear inequalities. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • x < y < 0. Quantity A is x². Quantity B is y². Answer: Quantity A is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, inequalities. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • x is a nonzero number. Quantity A is (x⁵ · x³)/x⁶. Quantity B is x². Answer: The two quantities are equal. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Algebra, operations with exponents. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.

Quantitative: geometry and data analysis 20

  • A bag holds 4 red, 5 blue and 6 white chips. One chip is drawn at random. What is the probability that it is not blue? Answer: 2/3. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, elementary probability. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A circle has an area of 49π. What is its diameter? Answer: 14. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, circles; area. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A circle has radius r, where r > 0. Quantity A is the number of units in its circumference. Quantity B is the number of square units in its area. Answer: It cannot be determined from what is given. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, circles. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A committee of 3 is chosen from 4 men and 3 women. How many of the possible committees have exactly 2 women? Answer: 12. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, counting methods: combinations. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A cube has a volume of 125. What is its total surface area? Answer: 150. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, three-dimensional figures; area; volume. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A list holds the five numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 100. Quantity A is the median of the list. Quantity B is the mean of the list. Answer: Quantity B is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, basic descriptive statistics: mean and median. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A list holds the five numbers 4, 4, 5, 9 and 13. Quantity A is the range of the list. Quantity B is the mean of the list. Answer: Quantity A is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, basic descriptive statistics. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A rectangle is 3 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 48. What is its area? Answer: 108. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, quadrilaterals; area; perimeter. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A right circular cone has a base of radius 5 and a height of 12. What is its volume? Answer: 100π. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, three-dimensional figures; volume. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A right triangle has legs of length 9 and 40. Quantity A is the length of its hypotenuse. Quantity B is 41. Answer: The two quantities are equal. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, the Pythagorean theorem. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A square and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. Quantity A is the length of a side of the square. Quantity B is the length of a side of the triangle. Answer: Quantity B is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, perimeter. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A student has a mean score of 82 on four tests. What score on a fifth test brings the mean of all five to 85? Answer: 97. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, basic descriptive statistics: mean. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A survey asked 80 commuters how they travel: 36 by bus, 24 by car, 12 by bike and 8 on foot. In a circle graph of the results, what is the central angle of the sector for bike? Answer: 54°. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, interpretation of data in circle graphs. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A wheel with a diameter of 2 feet rolls through 10 full turns without slipping. How far does it travel? Answer: 20π feet. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, circles. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • A whole number from 1 to 30 is picked at random. What is the probability that it is a multiple of 4 or of 6? Answer: 1/3. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, elementary probability. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • In the xy-plane, how far is the point (−1, 2) from the point (7, 17)? Answer: 17. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, the Pythagorean theorem; coordinate geometry. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • One angle of an isosceles triangle measures 40°. Quantity A is the measure of the largest angle of the triangle. Quantity B is 90°. Answer: It cannot be determined from what is given. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, triangles, including isosceles triangles. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 to 3 to 4. What is the measure of the largest angle? Answer: 80°. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Geometry, triangles; angle measurement in degrees. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • Two fair six-sided dice are rolled. Quantity A is the probability that the numbers add to 7. Quantity B is the probability that the numbers add to 8. Answer: Quantity A is greater. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, elementary probability. Quantitative Comparison. Worked out from the numbers in the question.
  • What is the median of the six numbers 14, 3, 8, 21, 6 and 17? Answer: 11. Source: ETS, Quantitative Reasoning overview: Data analysis, basic descriptive statistics: median. Multiple choice, one answer. Worked out from the numbers in the question.

How this list was compiled: Our own texts and questions, written to ETS's published content pages for the GRE General Test, read 2026-10-11: Test Content (https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/content.html), the Overview of the Verbal Reasoning Measure (https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/content/verbal-reasoning.html: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence; about half of the measure is based on passages) and the Overview of the Quantitative Reasoning Measure (https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/content/quantitative-reasoning.html: arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data analysis). Section lengths (27 Verbal questions in 41 minutes and 27 Quantitative questions in 47 minutes, each in two sections) from https://www.ets.org/gre/test-takers/general-test/prepare/test-structure.html. The bank holds 40 Verbal questions (20 reading, 11 text completion, 9 sentence equivalence) and 40 Quantitative questions. The people, places and studies in the reading texts are invented for practice, and each answer rests on the text printed with it. Word meanings were read in the Wiktionary entry named under the question, on 2026-10-10 or 2026-10-11. Every Quantitative answer was worked out a second time. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

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This free GRE general practice test has 40 Verbal Reasoning and 40 Quantitative Reasoning questions of our own, each with its answer explained. It is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by ETS.

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The two measures

ETS's test content pages, read October 11, 2026: Verbal Reasoning has reading comprehension, text completion and sentence equivalence, about half of it on passages. Quantitative Reasoning covers arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis. This bank holds 20, 11 and 9 Verbal questions and 40 Quantitative.

Timing

The real test gives 27 Verbal questions in 41 minutes and 27 Quantitative questions in 47, each measure in two sections. Exam mode gives 54 questions in 88 minutes.

What is left out

The real test opens with a 30-minute essay and has questions with several right answers, numeric entry and longer passages. Here every question has four choices and one answer, and each reading text is a short paragraph.

  • The real test lets you skip a question and return to it within a section. Take the quick ones first.
  • In sentence equivalence both words must give the same meaning. Synonyms that do not fit the sentence are a trap.

Questions and answers

Is there a GRE practice test PDF with answers?

Yes. The sheet above opens with 54 questions, 27 Verbal then 27 Quantitative. Print the question sheet puts them on paper, with an answer key if you tick it. Choose Save as PDF in the print window for a GRE practice test PDF.

Is this a full GRE practice test?

Exam mode is a mock test at the real length of the two multiple-choice measures, without the essay. It does not pick a harder or easier second section from your first, as the real test does.

Is this a GRE practice test with solutions?

Yes. In practice mode each answer is marked at once with the reasoning under it. Exam mode holds the answers back until the end, then lists every question you missed with its explanation.

Are these real GRE test practice questions?

No. Every question and reading text was written for this page from ETS's published descriptions of the two measures. None is taken or reworded from a real test, a POWERPREP test or ETS's sample questions.

How is the GRE General Test scored?

For Verbal and Quantitative, ETS counts correct answers across both sections of a measure and converts the count to a scaled score through equating. The essay is scored on a six-point scale. This page gives a percent and no scaled score.

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