Verbal GMAT

I want to get the details of verbal section of Graduate Management Admission Test GMAT exam so can you please tell me?

[Pathak]

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) for admission in MBA program. It measures the candidates certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English

Verbal Section

The verbal section of the GMAT contains questions of three types:

Sentence Correction
Critical Reasoning
Reading Comprehension

The verbal section of the GMAT Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) has 41 questions to be completed in 75 minutes.

Of these questions approximately:

15 are Sentence Correction
14 are Critical Reasoning
12 are Reading Comprehension
Practice Tests

Sentence Correction-

Question 1

The capacity of embryonic stem cells to develop into most types of human tissue, which makes them potentially valuable for medical applications, but the genetic program that underlies this quality is not yet known.

tissue, which makes them
tissue makes them
tissues, which make them
tissue, making them
tissue make it

Explanatory Answer

The clause preceding the word but and the one following it are each intended to be independent — that is, each one should stand as a complete sentence in itself. However, the first clause lacks a predicate, and the result is a so-called "run-on" sentence. By simply removing the word which and the comma preceding it, the problem is solved and the result is a sentence that makes sense. (The singular noun capacity takes the singular verb form makes.) The correct response is (B).

Question 2

By the mid-1700s, when it began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, the French government had fully realized that the success of its state building projects depended on the welfare of its people.

By the mid-1700s, when it began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, the French government had fully realized
Until the mid-1700s, when it had begun a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, the French government had fully realized
By the mid-1700s the French government began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, when it fully realized
The French government began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague by the mid-1700s, fully realizing
When the French government began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, it fully realized by the mid-1700s

Explanatory Answer

The past-perfect verb form had realized is appropriate here because the sentence is intended to convey the idea that one action (fully realizing) occurred before another action in the past (a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague). Past perfect tense indicates the first of the two actions in time. The correct response is (A), which means that the original version of the sentence is the best one.

Critical Reasoning-

Question 1

Struthers College has built its reputation for academic excellence largely on significant contributions from wealthy alumni who are avid fans of the school’s football team. Although the team has won more national championships over the years than any other team in its division, this year it did not even win the division title, and so Struthers College can expect to see a decline in alumni contributions next year.

The above argument relies on which of the following assumptions about Struthers College?

The college’s reputation for academic excellence depends on the performance of its football team.
Contributions from alumni are needed for the college to produce a winning football team.
Struthers alumni contributions depend to an extent on a winning record by the college's football team.
The college’s football team will continue its losing streak next year.
As a group, the college’s alumni will have at least as much discretionary money to give away next year as this year.

Explanatory Answer

The argument boils down to the following:

The college’s football team lost this year.
Therefore, alumni contributions are about to decrease.
But this argument depends on a cause-and-effect link between the football team’s performance and the level of alumni contributions, doesn’t it? In other words, it assumes that the alumni who contribute to the college are motivated to do so (at least to some extent) by their interest in the football team and its success. The correct response is (C).

Question 2

Recent dental research shows that bacteria around the gum line produces a substance that in sufficient amounts can induce preterm labor in pregnant women and can cause heart disease by clogging arteries. Both medical outcomes add to payouts by health insurers to medical-service providers. The bacteria is best removed by a dentist or trained hygienist during a routine cleaning. One health insurer has calculated that it can reduce its payouts by reimbursing subscribers who are either pregnant or at high risk of developing heart disease for the cost of one professional dental cleaning per year.

Which of the following, if true, most stongly supports the assertion that the insurer's payouts to medical-service providers will decrease if it implements the reimbursement plan described above?

Dental-hygiene regimens such as brushing or flossing can slow the accumulation of the bacteria-produced substance.
Individuals are generally less likely to postpone or forego inexpensive or free dental procedures than expensive ones.
Pregnant women typically crave sugary foods, which are proven to contribute to tooth decay.
The risk of developing heart disease is greater for individuals with a family history of heart disease than for those with no such history.
The dental health of pregnant women and heart-disease patients, as a group, is similar to that of the general population.

Explanatory Answer

The clear intent of the reimbursement policy is to prompt pregnant women and people at risk of heart disease to schedule more-frequent professional dental cleanings — a procedure that may help prevent preterm labor or heart disease. But the policy will carry its intended result only if those subcribers act accordingly. Of the five choices, (D) provides the best evidence that they will do so. The correct response is (D).

Reading Comprehension-

Question 1 is based on the following passage: 3
Influenced by Evangelical attitudes, art and literature of the nineteenth century were expected to contribute to moral education. Running afoul of that expectation was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), which invited the vituperations of reviewers of its day. Being "retrogressive" in a progressive era may be a serious fault, according to Charles Dickens' rhetoric about the art of John Millais; but being "fleshly" and "aesthetic" in an age of moral earnestness may be worse, as D. G. Rossetti, another PRB ringleader, discovered when poet and critic Robert Buchanan attacked him and his work in "The Fleshly School of Poetry" (1871).

However much the PRB had offended the establishment, most of the brothers had insisted on the importance of the arts as moral guides. Yet Rossetti had expressed doubts about art designed to be morally uplifting: the painter-hero of his short story "Hand and Soul" (1850) tries through art to inspire "moral greatness," only to witness his frescoes of Peace spattered by blood shed in a vendetta. And, privileging form at the expense of meaningful content and animal passion at the expense of conventional morality, the poems and Rossetti himself, Buchanan wrote, were "never spiritual, never tender, always self-conscious and aesthetic."

Question 1

According to the passage, Rossetti's poems

were criticized by reviewers as not progressive enough
violated certain aesthetic ideals through their portrayals of violence
suggested that Rossetti had rejected the tenets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
came under attack for their emphasis on form at the expense of substance
advocated certain behavior which ran contrary to the prevailing morality of the time

Explanatory Answer

The final sentence of the passage indicates that Buchanan (a critic of Rossetti) criticized Rossetti's poems for "privileging form at the expense of meaningful content" — in other words, for stressing form over substance. The correct response is (D).