GRE Verbal Reasoning practice questions.
Boost your GRE Verbal Reasoning score with free practice questions designed to mirror the actual test. These carefully curated problems cover all major question types: reading comprehension, text completion, and sentence equivalence. New questions are added every day.
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GRE Verbal Reasoning question types
GRE Verbal Reasoning questions are split into three categories:
Reading Comprehension (~50% of questions)
- Multiple Choice (Select One): Standard questions with five answer choices where you select the best answer based on the passage.
- Multiple Choice (Select One or More): Questions where you must select all correct answers from a set of choices.
- Select-in-Passage: Questions that ask you to click on the sentence in the passage that meets a certain description.
Text Completion (~25% of questions)
- Single Blank: Passages with one blank and five answer choices.
- Multi-Blank: Passages with two or three blanks, each with three answer choices. You must get all blanks correct to earn credit.
Sentence Equivalence (~25% of questions)
- Single sentence with one blank and six answer choices. Select the two choices that both fit the blank and produce sentences with similar meaning.
Want to drill a single question type? Work through our free GRE Text Completion practice and GRE Reading Comprehension practice sets, or build word power with GRE vocabulary practice.
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Effective practice strategies
1. Build your vocabulary
A strong vocabulary is essential for Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions. Use our GRE Vocabulary List and free GRE vocabulary practice to study the most commonly tested words.
2. Read actively
For Reading Comprehension, practice identifying the main idea, author's tone, and logical structure of passages. Summarize each paragraph in your own words as you read.
Study tip: When practicing Text Completion, try to predict the answer before looking at the choices. This builds the inference skills you'll need on test day.
3. Practice under timed conditions
The GRE gives you about 1.5 minutes per Verbal question. Practice with a timer to build the pacing skills you'll need.
4. Review every explanation
Don't just check if you got the answer right. Read the explanations to understand the reasoning and learn new strategies for approaching similar questions.
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GRE Verbal Reasoning scoring
The Verbal Reasoning section is scored on a scale of 130-170 in 1-point increments. The section is adaptive at the section level — your performance on the first Verbal section determines whether you get a harder or easier second section.
No guessing penalty: There's no penalty for wrong answers on the GRE. Always select an answer for every question, even if you need to guess.
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