Text Completion is a part of the GRE revised General Test and accounts for almost 25% marks of the entire Verbal reasoning section. It is very similar to the Sentence Equivalence part and also has multiple choices to select your answer from. This part evaluates a student’s ability to interpret a sentence or narrative and understand the hidden meaning of it too. It also involves careful reasoning of the text so as to make it complete by filling in the blanks that are provided.

The options for the Text Completion questions are different than those of sentence equivalence as each word has different meaning and sense. Hence selecting the right alternative should not be a difficult process. Each question in this section can be answered in almost 1 minute and hence you can cover up on the time in case you are stuck on a difficult question or text.

The sentence or text for this Text Completion test may be 1-5 sentences long and may have a single or multiple blanks to be filled. Each blank will have a different set of choices. Hence confusion between choices and blanks should be avoided. Also, the scoring system gives you a mark only if all the blanks have been correctly filled. Even if one out of the total blanks provided in a single question is wrong, no marks will be allocated. Hence each blank has to be given a serious thought.

For successfully attempting Text Completion, read and absorb the meaning of the paragraph properly. You may fill the blanks in any order. Once all blanks are filled, analyze why the other words do not fit in those blanks. This will assure you that your selection is correct. Finally read through the paragraph along with your choices to make sure it makes sense.