This blog contains 6 GRE verbal questions from different topics and showcases several different problem-solving strategies.  Use this blog to see if you’re on the right track in your studies, and to learn what to do if you’re not.

You probably started your business school application process like so many others do: by Googling “best business schools” and looking at the GPA and GMAT scores those schools list for their admitted applicants. There is no question that you should go to the best business school you can possibly get into, but what should you do if you are concerned that your GPA might be holding you back from going to a really good one?

You are hopefully spending a lot of time preparing for the GMAT by mastering the content tested and working to understand each type of question that you’ll see on both the Quantitative and the Verbal section. But at the end of the day, no matter how prepared you are on a content level, you’ll need to know how to handle the timing on the test.

Since you’re here for the practice, let’s go directly to our first question for today -- a Quantitative Comparison question. For those not familiar, in these questions you are given information about two Quantities and asked, based on this information, to assess if one of the Quantities is greater, if both are equal, or if the relationship between them cannot be determined.

As anyone who’s taken the GMAT can attest, the questions are hard mainly because there isn’t enough time to solve them properly. So what can you do to help yourself beat the clock?