Sentence Completion
GRE Sentence Equivalence: Spartan Conditions. Conditions at the training camp for runners were ________; few of the runners had proper shoes or a training kit.
- unpleasant
- tedious
- spartan
- austere
- rigorous
- monotonous
Sentence Completion
Margaret Oliphant’s literary output was ________: it included almost 100 novels, 50 short stories, 25 nonfictional works, and in the region of 400 articles published in the periodical press.
- exemplary
- consistent
- ample
- prodigious
- diverse
- unprecedented
Reading Comprehension
In her study of New Haven, Connecticut, covering the period 1639–1789, Cornelia Dayton argues that during the seventeenth century, colonial women had easy access to New Haven’s courts, where their concerns and complaints were taken seriously by Puritan magistrates. These magistrates deviated from English legal practice by eschewing lawyers and simplifying procedures, thereby allowing, even encouraging, women’s participation in litigation.
But by the early eighteenth century, Dayton contends, New Haven’s courts, like those of other British colonial areas, were reverting to English legal procedures, engaging lawyers to argue cases, and focusing more on property issues. These changes resulted primarily from an expanding economy that brought about new forms of credit, vastly augmented indebtedness, contact with nonlocal markets, and sharper class and racial distinctions. These factors worked to marginalize colonial women’s economic contributions to their families and to diminish their influence in their communities and their usefulness to judges and juries in what Dayton calls the “litigated economy.” In this “anglicized legal environment,” patriarchal authority became more deeply entrenched, the spheres of public and private activity were restructured, and colonial women became less visible participants in a legal arena that now catered primarily to colonial men’s interests.
The primary purpose of the passage is to present one scholar’s:
- revision of the standard view of a particular historical period
- evaluation of a theory concerning a particular historical development
- description of economic change at a particular time and place in history
- account of a change in women’s attitude toward the legal system at a particular point in history
- analysis of a particular development in the evolution of a colonial legal system
Quantitative Comparison
The sum of -5 and k equals m^2.
| Quantity A | Quantity B |
| $k$ | 4 |
- Quantity A is greater.
- Quantity B is greater.
- The two quantities are equal.
- The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
A 50-question survey was administered to 1,000 college students. The answer to each question was either yes or no. Each student was given a score on the survey equal to the number of questions to which the student answered yes.
| Quantity A | Quantity B |
| The 90th percentile of the 1,000 scores | 45 |
Answer Options: GRE Sentence Equivalence: Spartan Conditions
- Quantity A is greater.
- Quantity B is greater.
- The two quantities are equal.
- The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Problem Statement:
Square $GBDF$ is inscribed in the isosceles right triangle ACE.
| Quantity A | Quantity B |
| The area of triangular region $ABG$ | \frac{1}{4} of the area of triangular region ACE |
Options:
- Quantity A is greater.
- Quantity B is greater.
- The two quantities are equal.
- The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. GRE Sentence Equivalence: Spartan Conditions
Question 6 of 15 (image_cdd3cc.png)
Transcription:
Which of the following are the two values of q for which \frac{1}{q} – \frac{6}{q^2} = -1?
- -2 and -6
- -2 and 3
- 2 and -3
- 2 and 3
- 2 and 6
Answer:
2 and -3
Question 7 of 15
Transcription:
It costs d dollars to buy t thumbtacks. At this rate, what is the cost of t + 2,500 thumbtacks, in dollars?
- \frac{2,500t + t^2}{d}
- \frac{2,500d + t}{d}
- \frac{td + d}{2,500d}
- \frac{2,500td + d}{t}
- \frac{2,500d + td}{t}
Answer:
- \frac{2,500d + td}{t}
Question 8 of 15
Transcription:
The graphs show the cumulative relative frequency for the values in data set A and the values in data set B. If x percent of the values in A are less than or equal to 20 and y percent of the values in B are less than or equal to 20, which of the following is the best estimate of x – y?
- 20
- 30
- 35
- 50
- 70
Answer:
- 50(Note: At value 20, Graph A is at 0.7 (70\%) and Graph B is at 0.2 (20\%$). So, 70 – 20 = 50.)
Question 9 of 15
Transcription:
If 1 \le x \le 4 and -3 \le y \le 2, what is the least possible value of x^{-2} + y^{-2}?
- \frac{7}{144}
- \frac{25}{144}
- \frac{5}{16}
- \frac{9}{16}
- \frac{7}{12}
Correct Answer:
- frac{25/144}
Question 12 of 15
The average (arithmetic mean) of 6 measurements is n. When a statistician discards one of the measurements, the average of the remaining measurements is n – 2. What is the value of the discarded measurement, in terms of n?
- n + 10
- n + 6
- n
- n – 2
- n – 5
D = {n + 10}
Question 10 of 15
The four quadrants of the xy-plane are shown. The graph of y = mx + b (not shown), where m and b are positive constants, must pass through which of the quadrants?
Indicate all such quadrants.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
