GRE GRE-TEST Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

GRE GRE-TEST Online Questions & Answers

• Question 201:

  Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.

  Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with (lie claim. In developing and supporting your position- be sure to address the most compelling reasons and or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

  A. See the detailed answer in explanation.
  A. See the detailed answer in explanation.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Educational institutions have played a vital role in forming the basis and the foundation for any student. Many places of study nowadays encourage students to travel and explore new places of study and also explore the possible learning

  experiences across the globe. I personally agree with the given statement that each individual should be encouraged to travel and study from various places which would improve not just their knowledge but also enhance their exposure to the

  various cultural and anthropological features in the foreign place.

  I have always been inquisitive and eager to know about the eastern culture and the tradition and even many of the languages. If I get the opportunity to travel and study I will be fortunate to experience the nuances of the culture first hand. To

  add on. in person experience leaches a student about the inclusive nature of the individual in a new environment. It would also show them the various ideas and theories about their field of study.

  For example, my friend who studied architecture went to japan for a semester and he was amazed by the kind of buildings and the kind of patterns the people had used. It helps us to understand the various possibilities and the various

  horizons that we might not even be exposed to if we do not travel.

  It is significant and important for every person to travel to the new places in order to explore about the learning options and also to learn about themselves. Universities are the place where on get sthe opportunity to learn as much as and even

  make any errors as they are a student. Learning possibilities and options are open and they get to learn and explore as much as possible.

  To conlcude. I have alwasy believed that a student is someone who has been boundaries or borders for learnign and he ought to explore as much as possible beyond the geographical barriers.

• Question 202:

  Dunne a certain month. 20 percent of all the electricity used by a household was used by the water heater. The cost per kilowatt-hour of the electricity used by the water heater was half the cost per kilowatt-hour of the rest of the electricity used. For that month, the cost of the electricity used by the water heater was what traction of the cost of the electricity used by the household?

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  B. Option B

• Question 203:

  

  In each of the years after year A", the Alden family budgeted S200 more for savings than it budgeted for savings the previous year. What is the total amount that the Alden family budgeted for savings over the 10 years beginning with year A"?

  A. $30,000
  B. $32,000
  C. $36,000
  D. $39.000
  E. $42,000
  C. $36,000

• Question 204:

  

  The graphs above show the distribution of men. women, and children who visited a certain zoo in 2008 and 2009. Which of the following statements must be true? Indicate all such statements.

  A. The number of children who visited the zoo in 2008 was greater than in 2009.
  B. In 2009 the number of women who visited the zoo was 20 percent greater than the number of men who visited the 200.
  C. In 2008 the total number of women and children who visited the zoo was of the total number of people who visited the zoo.
  B. In 2009 the number of women who visited the zoo was 20 percent greater than the number of men who visited the 200.
  C. In 2008 the total number of women and children who visited the zoo was of the total number of people who visited the zoo.

• Question 205:

  Female Korean shellfish divers, known as haemyeo. are (i)_________the (ii)_________the international seafood market: since they export most of their products, even consistent harvests translate into unreliable earnings.

  A. unfamiliar with
  B. vulnerable to
  C. responsible for
  D. information about
  E. vicissitudes of
  F. opportunities beyond
  B. vulnerable to
  E. vicissitudes of

• Question 206:

  Exhibit.

  

  A. Quantity A is greater.
  B. Quantity B is greater.
  C. The two quantities are equal.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
  D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

• Question 207:

  Scholars generally estimate subscribers to Freedom s Journal (1827-1829), the United States" first African American newspaper, at around 800. based on subscriptions to the Rights of AIL an African American newspaper founded in 1829 as a successor to Freedom s Journal by a former editor of that newspaper. But Gross argues that many more than 800 readers probably subscribed to Freedom s Journal because many of its subscribers, dissatisfied with the direction ultimately taken by the paper, refused to subscribe to the Rights of All. In any case, the figure of 800 subscribers would make the circulation of Freedom s Journal close to that of other weekly papers of the time Its number of readers, however, would have been much larger: copies were often shared. and African American organizations subscribed to Freedom s Journal, providing nonsubscribers access to the paper

  African American organizations' subscriptions to Freedom s Journal are mentioned in the passage primarily in order to.

  A. dispute Gross's claim about the probable number of readers of Freedom S Journal
  B. identify the primary subscribers to both Freedom s Journal and The Rights of All
  C. help account for a possible difference between the number of subscribers to Freedom s Journal and to The Rights of All.
  D. cite a factor that casts doubt on most scholars assumptions about the number of subscribers to Freedom $ Journal
  E. illustrate why the readership numbers for Freedom s Journal should be distinguished from the subscription numbers
  B. identify the primary subscribers to both Freedom s Journal and The Rights of All

• Question 208:

  In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the period of the American Revolution and the early republic, political poems appeared regularly in newspapers and pamphlets. commenting on the issues and controversies engaging the new nation. Given the sheer number of poems that engaged explicitly with politics, one might wonder why the form has remained largely ignored by scholars of early American literature even as many other once obscure forms-sentimental novels, diaries, travelogues, belles letters--have enjoyed unprecedented scholarly interest in recent decades. Part of the reason may stem from frustrations involved with reading poems that are so highly topical--often requiring, even as a condition of first-level comprehension, a familiarity with names and references that, while wholly recognizable in their own time, are obscure to modem readers. Yet beyond this is the fact that American political verse from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has never fully shaken off the verdict, delivered by its earliest generation of scholarly readers. that it is simply unworthy of serious attention as literature. Even the term commonly used to describe it--"verse." as opposed to "poetry"-- suggests an occasional or forgettable, rather than enduring, form of expression, not quite deserving the designation of poetry. Nor was such verse considered by early critics as worthy of the designation "American." as the tendency of eighteenth-century American poets to model their works on those of British precursors suggested an unforgivable failure, as one critic described it. to declare their "literary independence" from Britain.

  Though_________in his musical expression, the American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus

  eventually developed a personal voice that proved to be much more than a simple mixture of jazz styles.

  A. eclectic
  B. idiosyncratic
  C. uncompromising
  D. virtuosic
  E. wide-ranging
  F. relentless
  D. virtuosic
  E. wide-ranging

• Question 209:

  Discussions of the collapse of the lowland Maya are not new. However, it might be better to say that Maya civilization as a whole did not collapse, although many zones did experience profound change. Because societies are not bounded, unitary entities. collapses are rarely total, and continuity is a normal pan of collapse At the end of the Classic period [200 900C.E.]. the institution of divine kingship and many of the well-known markers of elite culture such as carved stelae [slabs erected for funerals or commemorative purposes] and hieroglyphic polychromes [multicolored artistic pottery) ended, but Maya civilization continued in modified form with many important features intact (e.g.. literacy, war. art. the production of fine ceramics). In some cases large buildings were constructed in the Postclassic period [900-1512 C.E.], but the transition to the Early Postclassic [900-1200 CXj era is distinctive for a decrease in elite goods and contexts. The variability in artifact changes during the Terminal Classic [800-900 C.E.] and into the Postclassic. even within artifact classes (e.g.. fine versus unslipped ceramics), suggests weaker centralized control than during the Classic period. Site abandonments in the Terminal Classic indicate the collapse of the functional ability of Maya states, but sites that survived show that Maya civilization continued albeit without divine kingship and much of the spectacle around it. The passage suggests which of the following about Maya living after the Terminal Classic in "sites that survived"?

  A. Their customs were identical to those of their ancestors.
  B. Their pottery was totally utilitarian in nature.
  C. They no longer created caned stelae.
  D. They stopped erecting large buildings.
  E. They did not use written language.
  C. They no longer created caned stelae.

• Question 210:

  A large cube and a small cube are made of granite of uniform density- The large cube has edges of length 1.2 meters and weighs 4. 752 kilograms. If the small cube has edges of length 10 centimeters, what is the weight, in grains, of the small cube?

  A. 275
  B. 396
  C. 570
  D. 2. 750
  E. 3. 960
  C. 570