GMAT Verbal Practice Exam
GMAT VERBAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE
ALL 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+||ALREADY GRADED A+
CRITICAL REASONING:
A survey of entrepreneurs who started companies last year shows that while
virtually all did substantial preparatory research and planning, only half used that
work to produce a formal business plan. Since, on average, the entrepreneurs
without formal plans secured the capital they needed in half the time of those
with plans, these survey results indicate that, in general, formal plans did not help
the entrepreneurs who produced them to secure the capital they needed.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A) Companies started by entrepreneurs who had used formal business plans to
attract investment were on the whole as profitable in their first year as were
companies started by entrepreneurs who had not produced such plans.
B) In surveys of entrepreneurs who have attempted without success to raise
sufficient capital, more than half of the respondents indicate that they have
produce
Erroneous extrapolation question: niche truth does not apply to the whole.
Proposition: formal business plans are not needed to raise capital.
Undermines: anything that shows the proposition to be a unique truth that
doesn't apply to everyone.
Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too
expensive. The city council, hoping to attract more tourists, lowered the hotel tax
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rate to 5 percent starting last year. By the end of last year, Midville had taken in no
less money from hotel taxes than it did the year before, so an examination of the
hotel records will show that more tourists stayed in city hotels last year than in
the year before.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A) The tourists who stayed in Midville hotels last year were aware that the hotel
tax rate had been lowered.
B) The average price of hotel accommodations in Midville was not significantly
higher than in hotels in other cities either last year or the year before.
C) In Midville, the price of a hotel room before taxes was not significantly higher
last year than it had been the year before.
D) There were significantly m
Revenue question: revenue = price per unit * units sold.
Proposition: since revenue is flat yoy then the number of units sold has to be
greater yoy.
Argument assumption: proposition is only true if the price yoy is flat as well.
Answer: C.
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop animal-
induced allergies, some of them quite serious. In a survey of current employees in
major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced allergies. Based on this sample,
experts conclude that among members of the general population who have spent
a similarly large amount of time in close contact with animals, the percentage with
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animal-induced allergies is not 30 percent but substantially more.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest grounds for the experts'
conclusion?
A) A zoo employee who develops a serious animal-induced allergy is very likely to
switch to some other occupation.
B) A zoo employee is more likely than a person in the general population to keep
one or more animal pets at home.
C) The percentage of the general population whose level of exposure to animals
matches that of a zoo employee is quite small.
Proportion comparisons with similar groups question:
% of subset in population = subset/total population
Proposition: 30% = allergic zoo workers / total zoo workers but general population
should have >30% of allergic people.
Supports: in order to be >30% the numerator has to be greater than the original
or the denominator has to be smaller than the original. Since general population >
zoo employees then the allergic people must be greater in the general population.
Any answer that shows the number of allergic zookeepers number is
underestimated from its true figure.
Answer: A.
Last August the XT chain of gasoline stations had a temporary sales promotion in
effect. In the promotion, any customer who made a purchase of ten or more
gallons of gasoline was entitled to a free car wash. For the month of August, XT
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GMAT VERBAL PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE
ALL 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+||ALREADY GRADED A+
CRITICAL REASONING:
A survey of entrepreneurs who started companies last year shows that while
virtually all did substantial preparatory research and planning, only half used that
work to produce a formal business plan. Since, on average, the entrepreneurs
without formal plans secured the capital they needed in half the time of those
with plans, these survey results indicate that, in general, formal plans did not help
the entrepreneurs who produced them to secure the capital they needed.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A) Companies started by entrepreneurs who had used formal business plans to
attract investment were on the whole as profitable in their first year as were
companies started by entrepreneurs who had not produced such plans.
B) In surveys of entrepreneurs who have attempted without success to raise
sufficient capital, more than half of the respondents indicate that they have
produce
Erroneous extrapolation question: niche truth does not apply to the whole.
Proposition: formal business plans are not needed to raise capital.
Undermines: anything that shows the proposition to be a unique truth that
doesn't apply to everyone.
Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too
expensive. The city council, hoping to attract more tourists, lowered the hotel tax
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rate to 5 percent starting last year. By the end of last year, Midville had taken in no
less money from hotel taxes than it did the year before, so an examination of the
hotel records will show that more tourists stayed in city hotels last year than in
the year before.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A) The tourists who stayed in Midville hotels last year were aware that the hotel
tax rate had been lowered.
B) The average price of hotel accommodations in Midville was not significantly
higher than in hotels in other cities either last year or the year before.
C) In Midville, the price of a hotel room before taxes was not significantly higher
last year than it had been the year before.
D) There were significantly m
Revenue question: revenue = price per unit * units sold.
Proposition: since revenue is flat yoy then the number of units sold has to be
greater yoy.
Argument assumption: proposition is only true if the price yoy is flat as well.
Answer: C.
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop animal-
induced allergies, some of them quite serious. In a survey of current employees in
major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced allergies. Based on this sample,
experts conclude that among members of the general population who have spent
a similarly large amount of time in close contact with animals, the percentage with
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animal-induced allergies is not 30 percent but substantially more.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest grounds for the experts'
conclusion?
A) A zoo employee who develops a serious animal-induced allergy is very likely to
switch to some other occupation.
B) A zoo employee is more likely than a person in the general population to keep
one or more animal pets at home.
C) The percentage of the general population whose level of exposure to animals
matches that of a zoo employee is quite small.
Proportion comparisons with similar groups question:
% of subset in population = subset/total population
Proposition: 30% = allergic zoo workers / total zoo workers but general population
should have >30% of allergic people.
Supports: in order to be >30% the numerator has to be greater than the original
or the denominator has to be smaller than the original. Since general population >
zoo employees then the allergic people must be greater in the general population.
Any answer that shows the number of allergic zookeepers number is
underestimated from its true figure.
Answer: A.
Last August the XT chain of gasoline stations had a temporary sales promotion in
effect. In the promotion, any customer who made a purchase of ten or more
gallons of gasoline was entitled to a free car wash. For the month of August, XT
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