The verbal section of the GRE tests your reading comprehension, verbal reasoning, and vocabulary. Like the quant sections, each verbal section has 12 or 15 questions, and you’ll answer them in 18 or 23 minutes.
There are only three types of questions in the verbal section:
Text completion and sentence equivalence focus on verbal reasoning and vocabulary. Reading comprehension focuses on understanding dense passages and drawing accurate conclusions from what you read. In the next chapters, you’ll learn strategies and tips that make these questions easier to break down and understand.
In the following chapters, we’ll work through example questions to show you how to approach each question type.
These chapters don’t include repeatable review quizzes like the quantitative chapters. Verbal questions are tied to specific passages and prompts, so they can’t be effectively randomized. If you repeated the same questions, you’d likely remember the answers, which wouldn’t give you a useful measure of your skills.
Instead, you’ll find full-length verbal reasoning sections on the practice exams page when you’re ready. Each one can only be taken once, so plan to read through the entire verbal reasoning chapter first to make sure you understand the concepts before you use those sections for practice.