When it comes to GRE prep, steady work is key to getting you to your goals. Enter Magoosh’s GRE question of the day! With questions from both multiple-choice sections of the test, this post has daily practice you can use to up your score.
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Below, you’ll find a GRE Quant Question of the Day and a GRE Verbal Question of the Day that you can use to supplement your GRE study plan. The GRE Quant Question of the Day will update every day of the month, so make sure to come back and check it every day!
The Verbal questions of the day are all available right now, labeled by day of the week. There are two possible approaches here: either wait for the assigned day of the week for a particular question, or if you’re really looking for that practice, go ahead and jump down to each day’s GRE Question of the Day using the links below!
GRE Quant Question of the Day
Enter the answer in the blank.
In a large bucket of screws, the ratio of slot screws to Phillips screws is 11 to 4. There are no other varieties of screws in the bucket. If there are 320 Phillips screws in the bucket, what is the total number of screws in the bucket?
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GRE Verbal Question of the Day
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Monday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
Some of today’s tech CEOs are spoken of in the press and on social media in such ________ tones that they have taken on a nearly messianic quality, entrepreneurs following their every move like a gaggle of disciples.
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Tuesday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
Tuesday’s question is based on the following passage.
Once American men returned from the WWII battlefields, they quickly displaced the women who had temporarily filled jobs otherwise reserved for men. With many women reverting to their domestic role, the dramatic increase in birth rate is perhaps not too surprising. Yet, such factors alone cannot explain the increase in the number of births from 1946-1951. Murray suggests that both women and men’s perspectives changed, mostly because of America’s success in the war, leading to rapid population growth. However, this position ignores the many middle- and lower-middle class women who continued working in factories and who contributed to the dramatic surge in population. Regarding this subset, the more plausible view is that couples were more likely to conceive based on the fact that they considered themselves part of a dual-income household—if necessary, the woman of the home could work.
The passage implies that the main shortcoming in Murray’s view is that it
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Wednesday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
Select exactly two answer choices that best complete the sentence and produce sentences that are alike in meaning.
Academics, when locking rhetorical horns, can toss off the most pointed barbs by deploying nothing more than an understated phrase, so it should come as no surprise that they are also prone to seeing ___________ where none exist.
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Thursday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
For each blank select one word from each column that best completes the sentence.
There is a rising consensus amongst immunologists that the observed rise in allergies in the general population can be attributed to (i) ____________ exposure to everyday germs. Known as the hygiene hypothesis, this counterintuitive idea could have far reaching implications—for one, we may now have to be more (ii)____________ those paternal prescriptions to scrub our children’s hands at every opportunity.
BLANK (i)
BLANK (ii)
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Friday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
Friday’s question is based on the following passage.
While antibiotics have done inestimable good to humankind over the last seventy years, there are several drawbacks to using antibiotics that, until recently, have been overlooked. The human microbiome, which consists of the trillions of bacteria that reside in each person’s body, is essential to good health. Specifically, the body contains and requires both “good” and “bad” bacteria. It is when the proper equilibrium between the “good” bacteria and the “bad” bacteria is disrupted that a number of health issues can emerge. Nonetheless, antibiotics indiscriminately kill both the “good” and the “bad” bacteria, so each course of antibiotics should be followed by a treatment that ___________________________________.
Which of the following most logically completes the argument above?
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Saturday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
Select exactly two answer choices that best complete the sentence and produce sentences that are alike in meaning.
Imperiled by excessive logging activity, the Canadian snow goose is unusually sensitive to any encroachments into its territory, displaying a(n) ______________ rare amongst waterfowl.
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Sunday’s GRE Verbal Question of the Day
For each blank select one word from each column that best completes the sentence.
The latest biography on J. R. Oppenheimer, in attempting to dispel the pervasive notion that he was a(n) ____________, only ____________ such a view: seemingly every one of Oppenheimer’s quirks is related with gleeful fondness.
BLANK (i)
BLANK (ii)
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More Practice Material
In addition to these daily questions, here is a full-length, free practice test from Magoosh that includes a detailed score report with a topic-by-topic breakdown of your performance. Happy studying!
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Rachel has helped students around the world prepare for various standardized tests, including the SAT, ACT, TOEFL, GRE, and GMAT, and she is one of the authors of our Magoosh ACT Prep Book. Rachel has a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Brown University, an MA in Cinematography from the Université de Paris VII, and a Ph.D. in Film Studies from University College London.
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