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What strategies can I use on the sentence completion questions on the GRE?

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    Bernadette "Bernie" Chimner began teaching in 1999 for a major test prep company. Although she loved her job teaching and tutoring, she found herself unhappy with the company’s stance toward its students and teachers. Her quest for a company with a philosophy more akin to her own would take her through two other large test prep companies before she finally arrived at Griffon Prep. She brought with her an extraordinary reputation as an exceptional instructor and a vast knowledge of both the LSAT and the GRE.

    Bernie is extraordinary in her dedication to her students. She spends her time after class and during break answering questions and she goes to lengths to make sure she is in touch with her students between classes as well. As a teacher, she is patient, friendly, and gifted at explaining questions in a simple way.

    Bernie’s skillful teaching is backed by an array of exceptional test scores. She obtained a perfect 180 score on the LSAT in June 2005, has a perfect GRE math score of 800, and boasts both a GRE verbal score and a GMAT score in the 99th percentile.

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    <p>Host: What strategies can I use on the sentence completion questions?</p><p>Bernadette Chimner: The best way to excel in sentence completion is to predict the word that you think should go in the blank before you go down. You want to read that sentence through a couple of times before you ever go down to look at the answers. Read the sentence through, get a good sense of what the sentence is really saying and then try to fill in the blanks with your own words, using your own language. Then once you have a good sense of what should go in those blanks, then go down to the answer choices and see which answer has come closest to the words you have chosen. Always remember when you are done to read your answer fully back into that sentence because sometimes words that look good independently, when you stick them back in the sentence, really will come out to be nonsense and you will catch that if just read it all back through before you hit next and go to the next question. </p>

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