GRE Text Completion Sample

How is the new GRE Text Completion different from the Sentence Completion of old GRE?

The sentence completion questions of the old format of GRE, with suitable modifications appear as text completion questions in the New Format of GRE.

In the older version, if a question sentence has two blanks, each of the 5 answer choices will have two words.

In the new version, there will be 3 choices for the first blank and there will be 3 choices for the second blank. The first of the 3 choices might be correct for the first blank and the last of the 3 choices might be correct for the second blank. So, the link that was provided in the earlier version in the way in which answer choices were presented is no longer available.

It makes the Text Completion set of questions that much more interesting.

Here are a couple of sample GRE Text Completion questions.

The law of war is __________ not only upon States as such but also upon individuals and, in particular, the members of their armed forces. Parties are bound by the laws of war to the extent that such ______________ does not interfere with achieving legitimate military goals

a. enforcing, forcing, binding

b. incompetence, compliance, reverses

2. Space exploration has often been used as ______________ competition for geopolitical rivalries such as the Cold War. Common ______________ for exploring space include advancing scientific research, uniting different nations, ensuring the future survival of humanity and developing military and strategic advantages against other countries.

a. an uninhibited, a proxy, an unclear

b. rejoinders, rationales, results

Answers and Explanation

Q1. With regard to the first blank, we can rule out enforcing since it doesnt make grammatical sense, and we can rule out forcing since it doesnt make logical sense. The correct choice is ‘binding’

With regard to the second blank, We can rule out incompetence since it doesnt make logical sense, and we can rule out reverses since it doesnt make logical sense. The correct choice is ‘compliance’

Q2. With regard to the first blank, we can rule out an uninhibited and an unclear since they dont not make logical sense. The correct choice is ‘a proxy’

With regard to the second blank, we can rule out rejoinders and results since they dont make logical sense. The correct choice is ‘rationales’