Introduction

Reading comprehension questions are presented in the middle and end of the Verbal sections of the GRE. As you can imagine, reading comprehension questions ask you to read a passage and answer questions about the content.

There are two types of reading comprehension prompts that you will see in the GRE: regular prompts and reasoning prompts.

Regular prompts are the usual newsletter, article, or excerpt from a book about science, history, politics, art, etc. Regular prompts can be of any length and have 1 to 4 questions each.

Reasoning prompts, however, are only of the short variation and have just one question each. Because they are so short and unique, we will be discussing the reasoning prompts first.

When answering reading comprehension questions, you mustn’t overthink the answers. There will undoubtedly be multiple interpretations of the passage, but the goal here isn’t to read critically and form your own opinion. Instead, you should aim to understand what the author of the passage is trying to convey, and adopt their mindset when thinking through any vague points.