Hey everyone i have been looking for me to check a way to perfectly do the strategies like rephrasing, main idea, identifying function , simplifying so i found the skill building where it will work like i wanted each sentence is graded , but the questions is how much reliable it is , as for the same passage i have given three attempts and everytime the score is below 5, so it marks as incorrect , so i am bit concerned , also should i attempt the same passage until i get it above 5 or something like 8 , or should i move to another passage . What should be the best strategy here, also right now i am following 2 month GRE verbal plan and i am on the week 5 day 3 directly jumped to RC’s
Can you share examples?
In my experience, it is pretty accurate.
Hi Alina thanks for replying.
I have attached tha screenshot of the passage. Also I have one more question should i just follow the 2 month plan and do whatever each day task it said to do or try to first improve these skills first then follow the plan, because i mentioned earlier I wanted to practice so I jumped on the skill building. So what should be best approach here
Sorry I took a while to respond, there was a holiday this week!
With verbal, it’s ok to build foundation at the same time as learning strategy, so you could continue with the 2 month plan while also continuing to improve these skills. Alternatively, the RC videos will cover these topics as well (RC starts in week 5 of the 2-month plan), so you can wait until then to work on rephrasing (though I personally find rephrasing can sometimes be helpful for TC and SE, so it’s not a bad idea to develop the skill early on).
Sentence 1: You seem to have oversimplified the sentence. What is being confirmed?
Also, simply saying the hormones are “brain-made“ misses a major idea in the sentence–that the hormones can be made by areas of the beyond just the hypothalamus (which is one particular portion of the brain). It was already known the peptides were made by the brain; the revelation is that more areas of the brain is capable of making the peptides than they realized.
There’s also a small grammatical error: “peptide hormones need [a] new explanation”. And simply saying the hormones “need a new explanation” is ambiguous. It would be better to specify what exactly needs to be explained.
Sentence 2: While it’s generally fine and even a good idea sometimes to change the order of a sentence’s clauses, in this case, it didn’t make sense since you said Rosen’s work contradicted the “above suggestions”. This makes it seem like you’re referring to the preceding sentence, which is not what you wanted to do.
Additionally, the phrasing about “growth regulators hormones” is ambiguously worded–it sounds like the growth regulators themselves have hormones (though it would need an apostrophe).
Sentence 3: I think this one is ok, but you probably got dinged for having such a large chunk of identical wording. The only changes are that you omitted the first three words, used “suggest” instead of “propose”, and “may” instead of “might”.
For reference, here is my attempt (don’t ask me how many times I had to restart the activity to finally get this paragraph 
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Some of the syntax is clunky and more wordy than necessary, but that’s ok, because we’re trying to make the sentence convey the same meaning as the original while being as distinct as possible and not overthinking it (a score of 5 is passing, and there’s variation in how it grades; re-submitting the same sentence can yield a slightly different score, and completely different comments).
If you wanted to look deeper into it, you can read the ChatGPT comments and try taking its suggestions into consideration and re-doing the paragraph. By changing the wording in my Sentence 1 from “new” to “early”, I got it up to a 10, so you can play around with submitting various iterations and seeing what happens.