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Overview of function questions

Overview of function questions

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Overview of function questions

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- [Voiceover] Certain GRE verbal questions will be testing your ability to determine how parts of a passage contribute to the whole or how passages are organized. So I call these kind of questions, Function questions and in this video I'll talk about how they work. So some of the common Function question types are classifying highlighted portions of a passage, selecting a sentence in a passage that plays a certain role, identifying the function of a certain part of a passage, or maybe identifying the overall organization of a passage. So the good news is that all of these questions are testing the same basic skill which is understanding what part of a passage does in addition to what it says. So in the Reading Critically video I talked about the different components of a passage, things like background information, opinions and evidence, and these are really helpful to practice in identifying since you can often use these terms to classify parts of the passage. In pretty much any real…

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