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Overview of text completions

Overview of text completions

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Overview of text completions

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- [Voiceover] So each Verbal Reasoning section will have about six Text Completions, which are sentences with either one, two, or three blanks, that you have to fill in from the provided choices. So in this video, I'll talk about the basics of how these questions work. So you see we have an example here of a Text Completion. It's just a single blank, and you've got some answer choices from which to pick. So the first skill you need, to handle Text Completions, is reading comprehension. So picking up on the overall story of a Text Completion can help. Now this story that we have here in this sentence, is extremely carefully written so that you can use logic to determine which of the answer choices is supported by the text, and similarly, you can deduce which answer questions are not supported. So I think the story really kinda comes across, in the final part of the sentence. This hurricane did nothing to damage the overpass's structure. So we might say to ourselves that we kinda have a…

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