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GMAT Verbal Practice Questions
One of the important testing areas of GMAT is strong skills in English language. Individuals who desire to enroll themselves in programs related to business management and accounts are required to possess good knowledge in English grammar, style and vocabulary. Therefore GMAT verbal practice questions are designed on Standard English language rules such as vocabulary, grammar and style. The real time GMAT verbal section consists of 41 questions with multiple choice answers. Practicing GMAT verbal practice questions will boost the confidence of candidates taking up the test and they will find pretty easy to acheive high scores. Check out the practice questions for GMAT verbal section listed below.
Types of GMAT Verbal Practice Questions
There are three types of GMAT verbal questions –
- Sentence Correction
- Critical Reasoning and
- Reading Comprehension
Questions of all the above types are given below:
(Answers are given at the end of all the questions)
GMAT Sentence Correction Practice Questions
Choose the correct answer choice which is related to the idea in given sentence:
1. Considered to be one of the brightest upcoming legal scholars, Douglas Kysar has written countless articles on environmental law and policy; his writings, which include a book with renowned law professor Daniel Esty, is cited more often than most other young legal scholars.
A. is cited more often than most other
B. are cited more often than most other
C. is cited more often than those of most other
D. are cited more often than those of most other
E. are cited more often than are most other
2. As the Federal government's deficit grows, analysts project that the extra cost to the Treasury Department in higher interest rates is well over 50 basis points per year.
A. the extra cost to the Treasury Department in higher interest rates is well over 50 basis points per year
B. the extra cost to the Treasury Department, incurred in higher interest rates, is going to be well over an extra 50 basis points per year
C. the Treasury Department will face higher interest rates, well over an extra 50 basis points per year
D. higher interest rates will cost the Treasury Department well over an extra 50 basis points per year
E. well over an extra 50 basis points per year will be the cost that is going to be borne by the Treasury Department
GMAT Critical Reasoning Practice Questions
1. Samuel is obviously a bad fisherman. During the past season, in which he and the five members of his team spent four months on a boat together off Dutch Harbor, AK, he caught fewer fish than any of his teammates.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument above?
A. Two seasons ago, Samuel fished on another boat off Dutch Harbor and caught more fish than any other member of that boat.
B. Before becoming a fisherman, Samuel piloted a fishing boat whose members regularly caught record numbers of fish.
C. While fishing this past season, Samuel fell sick for a week and did not catch any fish during this time.
D. Unlike the other fishermen on his boat, at the order of the captain, Samuel fished this past season with experimental bait.
E. Amongst the fishing community in Dutch Harbor, Samuel has a reputation for being an especially bad fisherman.
2. Virtually all health experts agree that second-hand smoke poses a serious health risk. After the publication of yet another research paper explicating the link between exposure to second-hand smoke and a shorter life span, some members of the State House of Representatives proposed a ban on smoking in most public places in an attempt to promote quality of life and length of lifespan.
Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the actions of the State Representatives?
A. The amount of damaging chemicals and fumes released into the air by cigarette smoke is far less than the amount released from automobiles, especially from older models.
B. Banning smoking in most public places will not considerably reduce the percent of the population in the state in question that smokes.
C. The state whose legislators are proposing the tough smoking legislation has a relatively high percent of its population that smoke.
D. Another state that enacted a similar law a decade ago saw a statistically significant drop in lung-cancer rates among non-smokers.
E. A nearby state up-wind has the highest number of smokers in the country.
GMAT Reading Comprehension Practice Questions
1. Marketing executives in television work with a relatively stable advertising medium. In many ways, the television ads aired today are similar to those aired two decades ago. Most television ads still feature actors, still run 30 or 60 seconds, and still show a product. However, the differing dynamics of the Internet pose unique challenges to advertisers, forcing them to adapt their practices and techniques on a regular basis.
In the early days of Internet marketing, online advertisers employed banner and pop-up ads to attract customers. These techniques reached large audiences, generated many sales leads, and came at a low cost. However, a small number of Internet users began to consider these advertising techniques intrusive and annoying. Yet because marketing strategies relying heavily on banners and pop-ups produced results, companies invested growing amounts of money into purchasing these ad types in hopes of capturing market share in the burgeoning online economy. As consumers became more sophisticated, frustration with these online advertising techniques grew. Independent programmers began to develop tools that blocked banner and pop-up ads. The popularity of these tools exploded when the search engine Google, at the time an increasingly popular website fighting to solidify its place on the Internet with giants Microsoft and Yahoo, offered free software enabling users to block pop-up ads. The backlash against banner ads grew as new web browsers provided users the ability to block image-based ads such as banner ads. Although banner and pop-up ads still exist, they are far less prominent than during the early days of the Internet.
A major development in online marketing came with the introduction of pay-per-click ads. Unlike banner or pop-up ads, which originally required companies to pay every time a website visitor saw an ad, pay-per-click ads allowed companies to pay only when an interested potential customer clicked on an ad. More importantly, however, these ads circumvented the pop-up and banner blockers. As a result of these advantages and the incredible growth in the use of search engines, which provide excellent venues for pay-per-click advertising, companies began turning to pay-per-click marketing in droves. However, as with the banner and pop-up ads that preceded them, pay-per-click ads came with their drawbacks. When companies began pouring billions of dollars into this emerging medium, online advertising specialists started to notice the presence of what would later be called click fraud: representatives of a company with no interest in the product advertised by a competitor click on the competitor's ads simply to increase the marketing cost of the competitor. Click fraud grew so rapidly that marketers sought to diversify their online positions away from pay-per-click marketing through new mediums.
Although pay-per-click advertising remains a common and effective advertising tool, marketers adapted yet again to the changing dynamics of the Internet by adopting new techniques such as pay-per-performance advertising, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. As the pace of the Internet's evolution increases, it seems all the more likely that advertising successfully on the Internet will require a strategy that shuns constancy and embraces change.
A. Clicking on the banner advertisements of rival companies
B. Using software to block advertisements
C. Utilizing search engine optimization to visit the pages of competitors
D. Fraudulently purchasing products online
E. Clicking on the pay-per-click ads of competitors
2. Marketing executives in television work with a relatively stable advertising medium. In many ways, the television ads aired today are similar to those aired two decades ago. Most television ads still feature actors, still run 30 or 60 seconds, and still show a product. However, the differing dynamics of the Internet pose unique challenges to advertisers, forcing them to adapt their practices and techniques on a regular basis.
In the early days of Internet marketing, online advertisers employed banner and pop-up ads to attract customers. These techniques reached large audiences, generated many sales leads, and came at a low cost. However, a small number of Internet users began to consider these advertising techniques intrusive and annoying. Yet because marketing strategies relying heavily on banners and pop-ups produced results, companies invested growing amounts of money into purchasing these ad types in hopes of capturing market share in the burgeoning online economy. As consumers became more sophisticated, frustration with these online advertising techniques grew. Independent programmers began to develop tools that blocked banner and pop-up ads. The popularity of these tools exploded when the search engine Google, at the time an increasingly popular website fighting to solidify its place on the Internet with giants Microsoft and Yahoo, offered free software enabling users to block pop-up ads. The backlash against banner ads grew as new web browsers provided users the ability to block image-based ads such as banner ads. Although banner and pop-up ads still exist, they are far less prominent than during the early days of the Internet.
A major development in online marketing came with the introduction of pay-per-click ads. Unlike banner or pop-up ads, which originally required companies to pay every time a website visitor saw an ad, pay-per-click ads allowed companies to pay only when an interested potential customer clicked on an ad. More importantly, however, these ads circumvented the pop-up and banner blockers. As a result of these advantages and the incredible growth in the use of search engines, which provide excellent venues for pay-per-click advertising, companies began turning to pay-per-click marketing in droves. However, as with the banner and pop-up ads that preceded them, pay-per-click ads came with their drawbacks. When companies began pouring billions of dollars into this emerging medium, online advertising specialists started to notice the presence of what would later be called click fraud: representatives of a company with no interest in the product advertised by a competitor click on the competitor's ads simply to increase the marketing cost of the competitor. Click fraud grew so rapidly that marketers sought to diversify their online positions away from pay-per-click marketing through new mediums.
Although pay-per-click advertising remains a common and effective advertising tool, marketers adapted yet again to the changing dynamics of the Internet by adopting new techniques such as pay-per-performance advertising, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. As the pace of the Internet's evolution increases, it seems all the more likely that advertising successfully on the Internet will require a strategy that shuns constancy and embraces change.
The type of individual each medium reaches
Whether the medium is interactive
The pace at which the medium evolves
The cost of advertising with each medium
Whether each medium contains drawbacks
ANSWERS
GMAT Sentence Correction Practice Questions
1. D. are cited more often than those of most other
2. D. higher interest rates will cost the Treasury Department well over an extra 50 basis points per year
GMAT Critical Reasoning Practice Questions
1. D. Unlike the other fishermen on his boat, at the order of the captain, Samuel fished this past season with experimental bait.
2. D. Another state that enacted a similar law a decade ago saw a statistically significant drop in lung-cancer rates among non-smokers.
GMAT Reading Comprehension Practice Questions
1. E. Clicking on the pay-per-click ads of competitors
2. C. The pace at which the medium evolves
These practice questions should be practiced constantly by the candidates to improve their standards in “Standard English” usage. And in doing so whoever takes up the test will find it easier on a test day to easily score the desired marks.
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