This November, ETS will usher a long awaited evolutionary step in graduate admissions test taking with the introduction of a new GRE question type. These new computer-based GRE question types are formally classified by ETS as ‘Numeric Entry’ questions.
The new wave of GRE questions is intended to promote more independent critical reasoning in the quantitative sections. There will be no opportunities to substitute given answer choices to correctly solve the problem. No calculators will be allowed to solve these problems. Your scrap work will be done on the same scrap pad you are given for the other exam sections.
The numeric entry space will have empty boxes. There, students will type in the answers for each problem. Fractional answers will appear as two boxes, one on top of the other, separated by a fraction sign. Symbols and units won’t be required; units will already be included next to the answer box.
800score plans on introducing our new GRE tests on October 1st.
Example 1
Andrew owns a large apartment building. He rents studio apartments for $600.00 per month,1-bedroom apartments for $800.00 per month, 2-bedroom apartments for $1,200.00per month. If Andrew’s apartment building has six 1-bedroom apartments, four studios, and eight 2-bedroom apartments, what percent of his total monthly income comes from his 1-bedroom apartment rentals?
Explanation:
The first thing we need to do is to determine how much Andrew makes per month. We accomplish this by multiplying the quantity of each dwelling type by the amount of rent he receives from each type each month. 4 ($600.00) + 6 ($800.00) + 8 ($1,200.00)= $2,400 + $4,800 + $9,600 = $16,800. Now, to determine the percent of his total monthly income ($16,800) that comes from 1-bedroom apartments, we simply divide what he makes from his 1-bedrooms ($4,800) by what he makes in total. 4,800/16,800 =48/168 = 6/21 = 0.28 = 28%. So, we would write the number 28 in the data entry box above.
Example 2
Maria is an avid marathon runner. She can run at a rate of 6 miles per hour. If Maria constantly runs at her rate, how many minutes will it take her to run 4.5 miles?
Explanation:
This is a conversion factor problem. We essentially want to convert miles to minutes. We set the problem up like this: (9 miles /2 ) (1 hr/ 6miles)( 60 min / 1 hr) . Notice that the miles and hours units cancel each other out. Only minutes are left. After we perform the multiplication and division operations we are left with 45 minutes. The number 45 is to be written in the answer box above.
Example 3
Gregory owns a farm. On his farm he has 2 kinds of horses, Palominos and Hackneys. If he has
3/4 more Palominos than he does Hackneys, and 1/4 of the Hackneys are male, what is the minimum number of female Hackneys present at Gregory’s farm?
Lets first express the pertinent information in equation form. Let P = represent the number of Palominos and let H represent the number of Hackneys. Also, note that we cannot have any fractional horses. Based on the given information we have P = 7/4 H and1/4 H are male. Then, 3/4 H are female. So we must have a minimum of 4 Hackneys. Lets see if the latter agrees with the Palomino population P = (7/4)(4 H) = 7. So we have a minimum of 4 Hackneys and 7 Palominos. In the answer box we would fill in the value 4.
Verbal New Question Type
Example 1
Anyone who's seen the director's newest film must note the contrast between his earlier, deeply introspective
works and this film's blatant __(i)___ of that tradition, __(ii)__ most notably through the characters' total
lack of either internal or external development.
Blank (i):
disregard
preservation
abrogation
Blank (ii):
revealed
pardoned
explained
Answers: (i) abrogation, (ii) revealed
Example 2
The philosophical mountaineer Japhy Ryder, a character in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, was ______ the
real-life poet Gary Snyder, a former fire lookout in the North Cascades whom Kerouac met through a mutual friend,
and whose experience as a lookout _____ Kerouac's own journey into the California mountains.
Blank (i):
based on
harbored in
attributed to
Blank (ii):
inspired
neglected
followed
Answers: (i) based on, (ii) inspired
Example 3
Without the appropriate education, it can be very difficult to _____ a difference between real diamonds and
their _____ simulants, cubic zirconia. Found very rarely in nature, cubic zirconia can be manufactured with
additional metal oxide dopants to _____ the colors often found in true diamonds, making it hard for an untrained
eye to spot a fake.
Blank (i):
construct
discern
modify
Blank (ii):
synthetic
metastized
genuine
Blank (iii):
shade
mimic
allocate
Answers: (i) discern, (ii) synthetic, (iii) mimic
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