{"id":903,"date":"2023-02-21T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatpoint.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T09:36:32","slug":"introduction-to-gmat-verbal-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatpoint.com\/blog\/introduction-to-gmat-verbal-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction To GMAT Verbal Reasoning (With Solved Examples)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GMAT Verbal Reasoning section consists of three types of questions: Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction. This section is computer adaptive and will contribute to your composite score; hence it is extremely important to score well in this section. The Verbal Reasoning section consists of 36 multiple-choice questions, which must be completed in 65 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We will look at all the three topics in this section with their respective examples. All of these questions have been picked from the\u00a0<\/span>Daily Target<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of GMATPoint. These Daily Targets are an excellent tool for students preparing for GMAT; here, you will get five questions each on verbal and quants daily, for free, along with their video solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reading Comprehension<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the Reading Comprehension section, you will be given a passage which you are expected to read and subsequently answer given inferential questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Example:<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Acting out dreams marks a disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep. Called RBD, for REM sleep behaviour disorder, it affects an estimated 0.5 to 1.25 per cent of the general <\/span>population and is more commonly reported in older adults, particularly men. Apart from being hazardous to dreamers and their partners, RBD may foreshadow neurodegenerative disease, primarily synucleinopathies\u2014conditions in which the protein \u03b1-synuclein forms toxic clumps in the brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all nocturnal behaviours are RBD. Sleepwalking and sleep talking, which occur more often during childhood and adolescence, take place during non-REM sleep. This difference is clearly distinguishable in <\/span>a sleep laboratory, where clinicians can monitor stages of sleep to see when a person moves. <\/span>When RBD occurs in the absence of these alternative explanations, the chance of future disease is high. Some epidemiological studies suggest that enacted dreaming predicts a more than 80 percent <\/span>chance of developing a neurodegenerative disease within the patient’s lifetime. It may also be the first sign of neurodegenerative disease, which on average shows up within 10 to 15 years after onset of the dream disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most common RBD-linked ailments is Parkinson’s disease, characterized mainly by progressive loss of motor control. Another is Lewy body dementia, in which small clusters of \u03b1-synuclein <\/span>called Lewy bodies build up in the brain, disrupting movement and cognition. A third type of synucleinopathy, multiple system atrophy, interferes with both movement and involuntary functions such <\/span>as digestion. RBD is one of the strongest harbingers of future synucleinopathy, more predictive than other early markers such as chronic constipation and a diminished sense of smell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the correlation between RBDs and synucleinopathies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Researchers today mostly rely on a range of other markers, such as diminished smell and motor control, to determine the susceptibility to synucleinopathies.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. RBD-linked ailments such as Parkinson’s could have multiple trigger points that include but are <\/span>not limited to, advancing age, head trauma, environmental factors, and genetics.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Determining RBD in conventional clinical setups is challenging because monitoring sleep <\/span>patterns tend to be erratic and inconsistent over a given span of time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Over the past decade, nocturnal behaviour such as sleepwalking have been observed in REM <\/span>stages in adults in the age group 30-50, and have often been indicative of neurodegenerative <\/span>diseases.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. RBD can be triggered by certain drugs such as antidepressants or caused by other underlying conditions such as narcolepsy or a brain stem tumour<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The correct answer is option E.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n