A policeman chases after a thief who has a 400 KM head start. They run at constant speeds, with the policeman running 10 km every 6 minutes and the thief 10 km every 10 minutes. How long will policeman take to catch up with the thief?

A) 3 hrs
B) 5 hrs
C) 8 hrs
D) 10 hrs
E) 15 hrs

NEW DELHI:  The new optional practical training (OPT) rules for students on F-1 visas in the US, which came into effect since April 2008, are now proving a big advantage for Indian students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) streams. These students can avail themselves of an extended OPT of 29 months. OPT is limited to 12 months after the completion of their degree for students of non-STEM streams.

All international students on F-1 visa in the US can participate in OPT after their studies are over. The US work experience complements their academic work and leads to greater career opportunities.

In the context of the global economic slowdown and the subsequent recovery, the OPT option has become very important for Indian students in the US, feel immigration experts. About 10% of the total international student population in the US took advantage of the OPT opportunity during the 2008-2009 academic year.

“The OPT facility is career-related and gives students the opportunity to gain experience and additional skills related to their area of studies. This flexible option is helping many Indian students, especially from the STEM disciplines, to acquire valuable work experience in the US, related to their area of studies,” James W Herman, minister, counsellor for consular affairs at the US Embassy, told ET.

He added that since the F-1 visas were not capped and not issued on any points-based criterion, they were easily available for students from India with the relevant qualifications.

In a significant development, the number of F-1 student visas issued in India in FY09, came down 25% to 25,860, compared to the previous year.

However, according to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors 2009 report, the total number of Indian students in US colleges and universities was at an all-time high during the 2008-2009 academic year — reaching a total of 103,260 students, a 9% increase over the previous year.

Meanwhile, Mr Herman also allayed fears among a section of IT industry about a growing number of cases of H1-B visas being cancelled at the port of entry in the US. “The H1-B petitions are scanned very carefully, but once they are issued, it is very difficult to cancel them. In fact, H1-Bs will only be cancelled if some fraud is detected or if the holder of the visa has moved to a new employer and no new petition filed,” he said.

(Courtesy:  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/travel/visa-power/Optional-training-for-students-on-F-1-visa-in-US-extended-to-29-mths/articleshow/5635270.cms )

INVEIGH:

INVEIGLE:

SYNONYM:

Many educators argue that a ———- grouping of students would improve instructions because it would limit the range of student abilities in the classroom.

(A) Heterogeneous
(B) systematic
(C) Homogeneous
(D) Sporadic
(E) Fragmentary

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Are we two becomes mere ———- watching the panorama without personal involvement, our senses dulled, out capacity to ———- undeveloped?

(A) Captives —– Submit
(B) Imitators —– Observes
(C) Bystanders —– Act
(D) Entertainers —– Relax
(D) Disciples —– Assist

The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1890’s that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier–that is, the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system. Not only was Turner’s thesis influential at the time, it was later adopted and elaborated by other scholars, such as John D. Hicks in The Populist Revolt (1931). (Actually, however, new lands were taken up for farming in the United States throughout and beyond the nineteenth century. In the 1890’s, when agrarian discontent had become most acute, 1,100,000 new farms were settled, which was 500,000 more than had been settled during the previous decade. After 1890, under the terms of the Homestead Act and its successors, more new land was taken up for farming than had been taken up for this purpose in the United States up until that time. It is true that a high proportion of the newly farmed land was suitable only for grazing and dry farming, but agricultural practices had become sufficiently advanced to make it possible to increase the profitability of farming by utilizing even these relatively barren lands).

The emphasis given by both scholars and statesmen to the presumed disappearance of the American frontier helped to obscure the great importance of changes in the conditions and consequences of international trade that occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened and the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed. An extensive network of telegraph and telephone communications was spun: Europe was connected by submarine cable with the United States in 1866 and with South America in 1874. By about 1870 improvements in agricultural technology made possible the full exploitation of areas that were most suitable for extensive farming on a mechanized basis. Huge tracts of land were being settled and farmed in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and in the American West, and these areas were joined with one another and with the countries of Europe into an interdependent market system.

As a consequence, agrarian depressions no longer were local or national in scope, and they struck several nations whose internal frontiers had not vanished or were not about to vanish. Between the early 1870’s and the 1890’s, the mounting agrarian discontent in America paralleled the almost uninterrupted decline in the prices of American agricultural products on foreign markets. Those staple-growing farmers in the United States who exhibited the greatest discontent were those who had become most dependent on foreign markets for the sale of their products. Insofar as Americans had been deterred from taking up new land for farming, it was because market conditions had made this period a perilous time in which to do so.

1. The author is primarily concerned with
(A) showing that a certain interpretation is better supported by the evidence than is an alternative explanation
(B) developing an alternative interpretation by using sources of evidence that formerly had been unavailable
(C) questioning the accuracy of the evidence that most scholars have used to counter the author’s own interpretation
(D) reviewing the evidence that formerly had been thought to obscure a valid interpretation
(E) presenting evidence in support of a controversial version of an earlier interpretation.

2. According to the author, changes in the conditions of international trade resulted in an
(A) underestimation of the amount of new land that was being famed in the United States
(B) underutilization of relatively small but rich plots of land
(C) overexpansion of the world transportation network for shipping agricultural products
(D) extension of agrarian depressions beyond national boundaries
(E) emphasis on the importance of market forces in determining the prices of agricultural products

3. The author implies that the change in the state of the American farmer’s morale during the latter part of the nineteenth century was traceable to the American farmer’s increasing perception that the
(A) costs of cultivating the land were prohibitive within the United States
(B) development of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States occurred at the expense of the American farmer
(C) American farming system was about to run out of the new farmland that was required for its expansion.
(D) prices of American agricultural products were deteriorating especially rapidly on domestic markets
(E) proceeds from the sales of American agricultural products on foreign markets were unsatisfactory

4. According to the passage, which of the following occurred prior to 1890?
(A) Frederick J. Turner’s thesis regarding the American frontier became influential.
(B) The Homestead Act led to an increase in the amount of newly farmed land in the United States.
(C) The manufacturers of technologically advanced agricultural machinery rapidly increased their marketing efforts.
(D) Direct lines of communication were constructed between the United States and South America.
(E) Technological advances made it fruitful to farm extensively on a mechanized basis.

5. The author implies that, after certain territories and countries had been joined into an interdependent market system in the nineteenth century, agrarian depressions within that system
(A) spread to several nations, excluding those in which the internal frontier remained open
(B) manifested themselves in several nations, including those in which new land remained available for farming
(C) slowed down the pace of new technological developments in international communications and transportation
(D) affected the local and national prices of the nonagricultural products of several nations
(E) encouraged several nations to sell more of their agricultural products on foreign markets

6. The author provides information concerning newly farmed lands in the United States (lines 11-27) as evidence in direct support of which of the following?
(A) A proposal by Frederick J. Turner that was later disputed by John D. Hicks
(B) An elaboration by John D. Hicks of a thesis that formerly had been questioned by Frederick J. Turner
(C) The established view that was disputed by those scholars who adopted the thesis of Frederick J. Turner
(D) The thesis that important changes occurred in the nature of international trade during the second half of the nineteenth century
(E) The view that the American frontier did not become closed during the nineteenth century or soon thereafter

7. The author implies that the cause of the agrarian discontent was
(A) masked by the vagueness of the official records on newly settled farms
(B) overshadowed by disputes on the reliability of the existing historical evidence
(C) misidentified as a result of influential but erroneous theorizing
(D) overlooked because of a preoccupation with market conditions
(E) undetected because visible indications of the cause occurred so gradually and sporadically

8. The author’s argument implies that, compared to the yearly price changes that actually occurred on foreign agricultural markets during the 1880’s, American farmers would have most preferred yearly price changes that were
(A) much smaller and in the same direction
(B) much smaller but in the opposite direction
(C) slightly smaller and in the same direction
(D) similar in size but in the opposite direction
(E) slightly greater and in the same direction

Friends hi,

Though my score is not respectable .but i fail to score high.

first of all my heartly thanks to Take GRE Team, and all my friends here. which help me out to clear 100s of my confusion regarding verbal and maths.my success is attributed to all of my friends here.

?my perssonel thanks to

Take GRE Team

1. Madhur Auhja

2. bhiswarup

3. Chandu

4. Arun

5. Vidya

6. HC

7. Mika

8. billu

and many more names which i forget the , plz forgive me for that.

?About Real GRE.

?[1] as usual BARRONS wons the confidence once again.

all words r from barrons. i would encourage all of my friends to go through the barrons world list, thats enough.

[2] antonym r easy i think one or 2 r of having secondy meaning also . for this i would encourage all people tp go through Achievers poin antonym book , as all antonym r from this book almost.

[3] analogy r i think simple for me , i found them either direct antonym ,synonym or a degree os relationship. but no repetition of all which i had seen before , they all r new. but r easy.

[4] Sentence completion r not so tough , they r direct verbal base if u have good vocub u?can easily cracy them .

[5] RC , generally NIGHTMARE for me ,i think i had all the RC quastion wrong on the test.

RC r easy but question r too tough , not direct inferable.so i encourage all friends to put more effoerts on RC.

Sequence of question.

my first 4 question r esay i think i attempt all of them in 1 min of time.

[a] 5 th question comes RC with 40 lines.

[b] RC is esy but question is much Tough at leat for me, though i m weak in RC.

[c] as i had to attempt first 15 question right. so i spent next 9 min on the next 4 RC question.

[d] after that i faced all easy question till 20th which i probably made all correct.

[e] then agian i faced 4 rc question which put me agian in dilamatic situation.

but i start guessing on them.

[f] . from onwards 25th to 30th question r easy and i finish the test 2 min earlier.

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As a confidence on maths since from chilhood,i never studied GRE maths. and had to face lose of 10 marks in maths.

i got 790 in maths.

question were easy but language is tough and lengthy difficult to infer, each question takes 30 sec for me to infer the language.i just concentrate on first 15 question and then make quick approach . time is just matching with last question.

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some of the question which i remember r as folows.

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[a] antonym od vapid, halcyon,tacitern, sojourn,

[b] analogy r like too easy. if i m notmistaken like???? one is audible:stentorian

[c] another is? lacklacdisa : defer

[d] and fill in the blanks r also easy.

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the prepartion followed by me.

[a] i started prepartion 70 days before and devoted?8 hrs per day despite College hours.

[b] i gone through the following books.

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[c] achieverspont analogy, antonym , sentence completion, wow, world family, RC, Acro , AWE book, NOVA,

?CLIFF, BARRONS.

?out of all i found barrons the most prefeable book and obviously all the achievers point book which make me confident.

i give following online test and with perfonmance

Cliff ————-Verbal 600,maths 750

barrons —————verbal 630 , maths 790

800.com?————– verbal 560. maths 780.

Acro?——————— verbal 610, maths 800

powerprep —————–verbal 720. quant 800

so i always demorlized by them excepet PWERPREP.

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once agian i thanks to all of my friends here.

and wishes GOOD LUCK for all of ur GRE exam.

i pray to GOD all of u get close to 1600 at leat more then me.

my good luck is with u all.

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Thanks and Regards

Yadav

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callow

a) crude
b) exquisite
c) experienced
d) lamentable
e) cautious

laconic

a) banal
b) tense
c) lengthy
d) turbid
e) tacit