GRE Yellow Book

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by  Jamboree Education

GRE - 2
2020
GRE – THE LAST MILE - IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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VERBAL
1. SENTENCE COMPLETION .............................................................................V - 1
2. READING COMPREHENSION
Practice Passages 1 - 42..............................................................................................V - 45
3. CRITICAL REASONING
- Bold Face Questions.................................................................................................V - 102
- Complete Questions.................................................................................................V - 109
- Inference Questions.................................................................................................V - 111
- Paradox Questions ...................................................................................................V - 116
- Strengthen Questions ..............................................................................................V - 118
- Weaken Questions...................................................................................................V - 123
- Assumption Questions.............................................................................................V - 131
Answer Key : SC, RC, CR...........................................................................................V - 134
QUANTITATIVE
1. QUANTITATIVE HANDOUT
1. Formula Sheet...........................................................................................................QH - 1
2. Inequalities and Absolute Value..............................................................................QH - 12
3. Exponents ...............................................................................................................QH - 14
4. Venn Diagram..........................................................................................................QH - 15
5. Sequence and Series ...............................................................................................QH - 17
6. Percentage..............................................................................................................QH - 19
7. Simple Interest and Compounding Interest.............................................................QH - 21
8. Equations and Ratios...............................................................................................QH - 22
9. Rate and Time.........................................................................................................QH - 24
10. Geometry................................................................................................................QH - 26
11. Numbers .................................................................................................................QH - 29
12. Statistics..................................................................................................................QH - 33
13. Co-ordinate Geometry............................................................................................QH - 37
14. Permutation and Combination................................................................................QH - 41
15. Probability...............................................................................................................QH - 44
16. Data Interpretation Sets 1 to 7................................................................................QH - 48
Answer Key :...........................................................................................................QH - 62
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2. ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1. General Arithmetic...................................................................................................... Q - 1
A. Sequences And Series...........................................................................................Q - 1
B. Exponents.............................................................................................................Q - 3
C. Percentages.......................................................................................................... Q - 7
D. Compound Interest and Simple Interest............................................................. Q - 13
E. Venn Diagrams ................................................................................................... Q - 15
2. Number System ........................................................................................................ Q - 17
3. Inequalities and Modulus ......................................................................................... Q - 27
4. Statistics.................................................................................................................... Q - 31
5. Permutations and Combinations .............................................................................. Q - 40
6. Probability ................................................................................................................ Q - 43
7. Coordinate Geometry and Functions........................................................................ Q - 49
8. Speed, Time, Distance and Work Rate...................................................................... Q - 56
9. Geometry..................................................................................................................Q - 60
10. Miscellaneous........................................................................................................... Q - 83
Answer Key..........................................................................................................Q - 99
3. DATA INTERPRETATION PRACTICE SET 1 TO 15.........................................Q - 106
Answer Key........................................................................................................Q - 133
4. QUANTITATIVE PRACTICE TESTS
1. Test 1....................................................................................................................... Q - 134
2. Test 2....................................................................................................................... Q - 142
3. Test 3....................................................................................................................... Q - 148
4. Test 4....................................................................................................................... Q - 154
5. Test 5....................................................................................................................... Q - 160
6. Test 6....................................................................................................................... Q - 167
7. Test 7....................................................................................................................... Q - 173
8. Test 8....................................................................................................................... Q - 180
9. Test 9....................................................................................................................... Q - 185
10 Test 10..................................................................................................................... Q - 190
11 Test 11..................................................................................................................... Q - 196
12 Test 12..................................................................................................................... Q - 203
13 Test 13..................................................................................................................... Q - 210
14 Test 14..................................................................................................................... Q - 217
Answer Keys.......................................................................................................Q - 223
GRE Post Class Plan .............................................................................................. SP - 1
SENTENCE COMPLETION PRACTICE EXERCISE
1. The wayfarer, with no companion but his staff, 5. Children not only provide cheap labor, but are also
paused to exchange a word with the innkeeper so ________, as they do not complain about menial
that the sense of ____________ might not utterly chores given to them or about harsh treatment meted
overwhelm him before he could reach the first house out to them.
in the valley.
(A) impertinent
(A) rancor
(B) facile
(B) fatigue
(C) presumptuous
(C) seclusion
(D) hesitant
(D) camaraderie
(E) docile
(E) companionship
ANS : E
ANS : C
6. There are different and (i) ____________ versions
2. In acting circles of New Hampshire, though he has about what happened in the city, but one thing is
a reputation of being a consummate professional, certain : it is a dastardly act that must be condemned
at times, he can be quite _____________ on stage. (ii)_____________.
(A) stern Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) inept (A) conflicting (D) equivocally
(C) aloof
(B) dissimilar (E) unequivocally
(D) cynical
(C) complementary (F) furtively
(E) prudish
ANS : A, E
ANS : B
7. While the aphorism “beauty is only skin-deep” is
3. This argues well that Ericson exercised less free
often repeated, the growing (i)____________ of
will than Warner; for even though Ericson was
cosmetic surgery among mainstream consumers
aware that he was misdirected, he was unable to
belies Americans’ purported lack of concern for
___________ free will.
(ii)____________ beauty.
(A) defer
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) facilitate
(A) distress (D) inner
(C) proscribe
(B) eminence (E) surface
(D) experience
(C) controversy (F) fading
(E) exert
ANS : E ANS : B, E
4. He was an actor of protean talent; but because of 8. Telephone-based public opinion polls are
his success as a comedian, directors were loath to notoriously (i)_____________ because only a
consider him for __________ roles. small subset of population is willing to participate
in them and yet they are the most frequent means
(A) supporting
to determine whether a given governmental action
(B) leading is (ii)_____________ by the nation or not.
(C) sentimental Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(D) comedic
(A) reverberating (D) dreaded
(E) facetious
(B) stultifying (E) endorsed
ANS : C
(C) treacherous (F) perceived
ANS : B, E
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9. Notwithstanding the fact that the stock market has 13. Percival’s (i)_________ approach to life caused
experienced strong (i)___________ in the past 2 him to miss the kind of (ii)____________
years, there have been periods in which the market experiences his more frivolous peers enjoyed.
has reached (a) (ii)___________ precipitously.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) slipshod (D) cerebral
(A) expansion (D) surge
(B) amiable (E) salutary
(B) burgeoning (E) stabilization
(C) utilitarian (F) jocular
(C) extension (F) nadir
ANS : C, F
ANS : A, F
14. Individual freedom of thought can be
10. The industrial revolution greatly improved physical (i)____________ more absolutely than individual
living conditions for many European inhabitants; freedom of action, given that the latter, though also
however, it also initially fomented (i)___________ desirable, must be (ii)_____________ the limits
working conditions and human rights transgression imposed by the rights and freedom of others.
such as (ii)__________ labor.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) exercised (D) subject to
(A) regressive (D) intensive
(B) assessed (E) indifferent to
(B) baleful (E) juvenile
(C) curtailed (F) measured by
(C) sedate (F) cumbersome
ANS : A, D
ANS : B, E
15. Even though political editorializing was not
11. The general perspective about images in literature __________ under the new regime, journalists still
is that a literal image is one that is unambiguously experienced ____________, though perceptible,
(i)_____________ to sensory perception, but a(n) pressure to contain dissent.
(ii)___________ image is subject to a wide ranging
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
interpretation.
(A) hindered (D) covert
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) commended (E) discrete
(A) equivocal (D) objective
(C) pre-empted (F) overt
(B) apparent (E) figurative
ANS : A, D
(C) amorphous (F) contrived
16. Robert Williams’ style of writing has an air of
ANS : B, E
____________ : just when you think that the
12. Examining the means by which traditional societies storyline is a foregone conclusion, he suddenly
living in large groups keep all the members supplied gives a mercurial turn to his story.
with food provides an illuminating contrast between
(A) ineptness
the objective material conditions of life and the
(B) indignation
culture bearers’ (i)_____________ of those
(ii)__________. (C) reticence
Blank (i) Blank (ii) (D) jocundity
(E) capriciousness
(A) scrutiny (D) groups
ANS : E
(B) illustration (E) conditions
(C) perception (F) societies
ANS : C, E
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17. Though a small man, J Egar Hoover appeared much 21. His novels are __________ : he uses a long
larger behind his desk; for having designed his circumlocution when a direct coupling of a simple
office with deftness, he was __________ by the verb and a subject would be best to construct the
perspective. sentence.
(A) augmented (A) prolix
(B) comforted (B) succinct
(C) apprehended (C) pedestrian
(D) dwindled (D) vapid
(E) disconcerted (E) risqué
ANS : A ANS : A
18. Always painfully shy, he was averse to forging 22. In many science fiction films, the opposition of
relationships on his own, but once he developed good and evil is portrayed as a conflict a between
a relationship, he was ________________ in its technology which is _____________, and the errant
perpetuation. will of a depraved intellectual.
(A) negligent (A) necessary
(B) unflagging (B) malevolent
(C) quixotic (C) dehumanizing
(D) deferential (D) parallel
(E) equivocal (E) beneficent
ANS : B Ans : E
19. Because he had always played as a defender 23. Because medieval women’s public participation in
throughout his life, Frank was generally spiritual life was not welcomed by the male
__________ on the football field; therefore, he was establishment, a compensating (i)—––————
genuinely touched by the amount of praise he religious writings, inoffensive to the members of
received for his game-winning touch. the establishment because of its (ii)—————,
became important for many women.
(A) indelible
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) methodical
(C) treacherous (A) involvement (D) privacy
with
(D) pious
(E) unheralded (B) dissatisfaction (E) popularity
with
ANS : E
(C) resistance to (F) scarcity
20. While the winemakers were exhausted at the end
of the season, they took _________ in the fact that Ans : A, D
the vines would require much less effort in the
24. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still
coming years.
standing have been so modified and enlarged that
(A) solace the __________ design is no longer discernible.
(B) prerogative (A) initial
(C) vagaries (B) pertinent
(D) expediency (C) appropriate
(E) immediacy (D) relevant
ANS : A (E) necessary
Ans : A
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25. Though science is often imagined as a disinterested 29. Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown
exploration of external reality, scientists are no problems, New Deal economic strategies became
different from anyone else: they are __________ ________ as a result of bureaucratization, their
human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their
social circumstances. transformation into rigid policies.
(A) stoic (A) politicized
(B) eccentric (B) consolidated
(C) rational (C) ossified
(D) careless (D) ungovernable
(E) passionate (E) streamlined
Ans : E Ans : C
26. Social scientists have established fairly clear-cut 30. Psychology has slowly evolved into an ________
norms that describe the appropriate behavior of scientific discipline that now functions
children and adults, but there seems to be autonomously with the same privileges and
____________ about what constitutes appropriate responsibilities as other sciences.
behavior for adolescents.
(A) independent
(A) a consensus
(B) unusual
(B) rigidity
(C) outmoded
(C) a mandate
(D) uncontrolled
(D) certainty
(E) inactive
(E) confusion
Ans : A
Ans : E
31. Thomas Paine, whose political writing was often
27. Although their initial anger had somewhat (i)— flamboyant, was in private life a surprisingly
———— , they continued to (ii)————— the _______ man: he lived in rented rooms, ate little,
careless worker who had broken the machine. and wore drab clothes.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) (A) simple
(A) blazed (D) appease (B) controversial
(C) sordid
(B) intensified (E) berate
(D) comfortable
(C) abated (F) condone
(E) discourteous
Ans. : C, E
Ans : A
28. Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity
32. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental
of species has (i)————— since the Cambrian
technique because, although it (i)————— some
period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record
problems, it also produced new (ii)—————.
only suggest greater diversity today, while in
actuality there has been either (ii)————— or Blank (i) Blank (ii)
decreased diversity.
(A) resolved (D) data
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) revealed (E) interpretations
(A) changed (D) escalation
(C) caused (F) complications
(B) increased (E) deviation
Ans : A, F
(C) reduced (F) stasis
Ans : B, F
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33. Wearing the latest fashions was exclusively the (i)— 37. No one is (i)————— about Stephens; he
———— of the wealthy until the 1850’s when mass inspires either uncritical adulation or profound
production, aggressive entrepreneurs, and the (ii)———— in those who work for him.
availability of the sewing machine made them (ii)—
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
———— the middle class.
(A) enthusiastic (D) reluctance
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) apprehensive (E) antipathy
(A) aspiration (D) popular with
(C) neutral (F) veneration
(B) obligation (E) accessible to
Ans : C, E
(C) prerogative (F) superfluous for
38. A war, even if fought for individual liberty and
Ans : C, E
democratic rights, usually requires that these
34. Because Gould’s theory has been neither principles be __________, for they are
completely rejected nor completely accepted by the incompatible with the regimentation and discipline
scientific community, its status remains necessary for military efficiency.
__________.
(A) espoused
(A) repudiated
(B) suppressed
(B) sanctioned
(C) advocated
(C) quizzical
(D) fulfilled
(D) preferable
(E) inherent
(E) debatable
Ans : B
Ans : E
39. The reduction of noise has been (i)————— in
35. The author of this book (i)————— overlooks terms of (ii)———— its sources, but the alternative
or minimizes some of the problems and of canceling noise out by adding sound with the
shortcomings in otherwise highly successful foreign opposite wave pattern may be more useful in
industries in order to (ii)————— the points on practice.
which they excel and on which we might try to
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
emulate them.
(A) approached (D) tracking
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(B) ideal (E) eliminating
(A) accidentally (D) emphasize
(C) challenged (F) concealing
(B) secretly (E) counterbalance
Ans : A, E
(C) purposely (F) confuse
40. Cryogenic energy storage has the advantage of
Ans : C, D
being suitable in any (i)—————, regardless of
36. The disjunction between educational objectives that geography or geology, factors that may
stress independence and individuality and those that (ii)———— both underground gas storage and
emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with pumped hydroelectric storage.
others reflects a ________ that arises from the
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
values on which these objectives are based.
(A) location (D) typify
(A) conflict
(B) climate (E) limit
(B) redundancy
(C) gain (C) surface (F) forebode
(D) predictability Ans : A, E
(E) wisdom
Ans : A
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41. Their mutual teasing seemed friendly, but in fact it 45. As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented
__________ a long-standing hostility. a _____________ in automotive development, and
although its sales were disappointing, it had an
(A) aimless
immense influence on automobile design.
(B) clever
(A) milestone
(C) produced
(B) misjudgment
(D) masked
(C) regression
(E) contravened
(D) nadir
Ans : D
(E) depression
For Questions 42 to 56, select the two answer (F) landmark
choices that, when used to complete the sentence, Ans : A, F
fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and
46. The techniques now available to livestock breeders
produce completed sentence that are alike in
will continue to be used, but will probably be
meaning.
__________ by new ones under development.
42. The corporation expects only ___________
(A) revoked
increases in sales next year despite a painstaking
effort to revive its retailing business. (B) augmented
(A) dynamic (C) repeated
(B) predictable (D) reversed
(C) expanding (E) improved
(D) modest (F) supplemented
(E) slight Ans : B, F
(F) volatile 47. Any population increase beyond a certain level
Ans : D, E necessitates greater recourse to vegetable foods;
thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over
43. Consider the universal cannibalism of the sea, all
cereals always arises, in part, from __________
of whose creatures __________ one another.
the number of people.
(A) hide from
(A) hiding
(B) ferret out
(B) restraining
(C) prey on
(C) revealing
(D) feed on
(D) estimating
(E) compete against
(E) limiting
(F) scoop out
(F) concealing
Ans : C, D
Ans : B, E
44. During the 1960’s, assessments of the family shifted
48. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more
remarkably from general endorsement of it as a
explosive during the last 4,500 years than any other
worthwhile, stable institution to wide spread
volcano in the coterminous United States, its long
__________ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one
dormancy before its recent eruption __________
whose dissolution was both imminent and welcome.
its violent nature.
(A) pretence of
(A) foreshadowed
(B) celebration of
(B) overcame
(C) censure of
(C) contradicted
(D) approval of
(D) restrained
(E) derision of
(E) moderated
(F) extolment of
(F) belied
Ans : C, E
Ans : C, F
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