GRE Question Types | PrepScholar's Master Guide

Erika here, with PrepScholar GRE - here today with an introduction to all of the different question types you can encounter on the GRE and how to approach each one. If you like this video, subscribe for more great content, and check us out at gre.prepscholar.com to learn more about what PrepScholar GRE can do for you.
We'll start with the Verbal section.
The first category of question in the Verbal section is Text Completion. Text Completion questions require the test taker to complete sentences or sets of sentences by filling in words and phrases that make sense when plugged into the text.
There are three flavors of Text Completion question.
The first is the one blank text completion question. These questions have one blank in the text and five answer choices, each a word or phrase that could fit into the sentence. Of these answer choices, only one will complete the sentence in a logical way.
The best way to avoid wasting time on the four incorrect answer choices is to start by predicting an answer in your own words - based on the sentence, what word or phrase would you put in the blank. Then, we can find the answer choice that most closely matches our prediction. This prevents us from wasting time on wrong answer choices or convincing ourselves of answers that we would never have come up with on our own. We aren't going to spend a ton of time on how to predict, so for more on how to break down sentence structure to answer vocab-based questions, check out our How to Master GRE Vocab video.
The second flavor of Text Completion is the two blank text completion question. These questions have two blanks in the text, each with three answer choices. So more blanks, but fewer choices for each. Now in some cases, there is only one answer choice that makes sense in blank 1 and one answer choice that makes sense in blank 2. These questions are fairly straightforward, and a lot like working two one blank Text Completion questions. In other cases, it may be that multiple answer choices work for each individual blank, but only one pair of answer choices (one for each blank) will make sense together - what we put in blank 2 depends on what we put in blank 1.
Because of this, it's important to consider the two blanks of the question together - this isn't two questions presented together; it's one question with two interdependent parts.
Just like we do on our one blank questions, we want to predict an answer for each blank. However, we may need to be a little bit looser with our predictions. For instance, we may predict that blanks 1 and 2 will be opposites, but we can't say any more than that. We may predict that blanks 1 and 2 will have a negative connotation, but we may not be able to nail down exactly what they convey.
That's okay! The biggest thing to keep in mind on these questions is that in addition to considering how these blanks relate to the text around them, we consider how the blanks relate to each other.
The third and final flavor of Text Completion is the three blank text completion question. These questions are have three blanks in the text, each with three answer choices - basically the two blank text completion question plus a bonus round.
As these are so similar to two blank questions, we approach them in pretty much the same way - be more flexible with your predictions, but consider the blanks together as much as possible. Sometimes one blank stands alone while the other two blanks rely on each other. Sometimes all three blanks will rely on each other. Very rarely can we approach each blank individually and still get the question right.

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