List of top Questions asked in GRE

How many positive 4-digit integers begin (on the left) with an odd digit and end with an even digit?

For a certain farm, soybean production increased by 25 percent from year X to year Y, and the selling price of soybeans decreased by 25 percent from year X to year Y. If the entire soybean production was sold each year, approximately what was the percent change in the revenues from the sale of the soybeans from year X to year Y?

Which of the following sums is greater than 1?

If the vertices of a triangle have rectangular coordinates \((0,0)\), \((8,0)\), and
\((8,6)\), respectively, then the perimeter of the triangle is

For how many of the areas listed was the average vehicle occupancy rate for commuters less than 1.8?

The average vehicle occupancy rate for commuters to County Y is most nearly

Of the 2 million people who commute to city P, approximately how many travel by public transport?

If the average vehicle occupancy rate for commuters to County X were to increase to 2.8, what would be the approximate percent increase in the occupancy rate?

UNTOWARD: (A)

SUPERCILIOUS: (A)

16. If \( x + y = x \), what is the value of \( y \)?

In the figure above, \( x = \)

The average (arithmetic mean) number of trees per acre in a 40-acre plot is 140.
If a 10-acre section of the plot contains 90 trees per acre, how many trees are
there in the remaining 30 acres?

TAUTEN: (A)

REDOLENT: (A)

The second paragraph makes use of which of the following?

The author suggests that the scientists holding the conventional view mentioned
in lines 15-16 make which of the following errors?

It can be inferred from the passage that the decision to study an organism may
sometimes be influenced by

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the author's claim (lines
56-57) that “it seems unlikely that the phylum is close to extinction”?

Information in the passage supports which of the following statements about
brachiopods?
1. Few brachiopods living in prehistoric times were specialists.
2. A tendency toward specialization, though typical, is not inevitable.
3. Specialist species dominate in all but arctic and subarctic waters.
(A)

MISREAD: (A)

EUPHEMISM : OFFENSIVE ::

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following statements best summarizes a distinction mentioned in the passage between waitress unions and factory workers' unions?

According to the passage, which of the following was characteristic of the form of union that United States waitresses developed in the first half of the twentieth century?