The Four Types of Verbal Section Questions

There are roughly six to eight analogies on the Verbal section. You will see instructions on your screen, which read something like the following  

In the questions that follow, there will be an initial pair of related words or phrases followed by five answer pairs of words or phrases, identified by letters a-e. Choose the answer pair in which the relationship of the words or phrases most nearly matches the relationship of the initial pair. 

Analogy questions test your ability to establish the relationship between the pairs of words or phrases. In the example from the previous section, PAGE BOOK, the first thing you should do is read those words to yourself in this format PAGE is to BOOK as what is to what Then you should think What is the relationship 

Certain types of relationships recur with some regularity on the GRE  

These relationships will be discussed in the extended lesson on analogies later in this chapter. 

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