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General
- A Note About Calculators...
Don't get too excited about
using your calculator on the math test - it won't help
all that much. Remember, these are not ordinary math problems.
You must be able to think through the problems in order to
work them correctly. A calculator will not make up for lack
of math preparation.
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- Most Important Rules
Three most important rules for doing well on lthe math test
are:
- Know your math
- Re-read every problem
- Check your arithmetic
- Story Problem
Story problem are one of the chief causes of errors
on the SAT math test. When faced with a story problem, follow
this six-step strategy:
- Know your math
- Underline the question part first.
- Read the whole problem from the beginning.
- Pull the math from the problem
- Re-read the problem.
- Do the math
- Double check your answer.
Multiple-Choice
- Know the directions in advance.
- sDon't try to use special "tricks".
- Write or draw freely in your book.
- Check your work on every problem.
- Plug in options.
- Never create long or complex equations.
- "It cannot be determined".
- Average.
- Figures Drawn to Scale.
- Be aware of difficulty levels
- Triple True/False
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Quantitative
Comparisons
Quantitative Comparison questions are quite different from regular
Five-Choice Multiple-Choice question. Instead of presenting
a problem and asking you to figure out the answer, Quantitative
Comparison questions give you two quntities and ask you to compare
them.
You'll be given one quantity on the left in Column A, and one
quantity on the right in Column B. You have to figure out whether:
- The quantity in Column A is greater.
- The quantity is Column B is greater.
- The quantities are equal.
- You cannot determine which is greater from
the information given.
For example:
| Column A |
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Column B |
| 34+43+58 |
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36+43+58 |
The correct answer is (B).
Strategies for Quantitative Comparison (QC) items:
- Study the directions in advance.
- Visualize the problems.
- Never pick E
- When an item has only numbers
in each column (no variables), never guess D.
- Determine the units being compared.
- Ofter the value in one column
is given, and you have to figure out the value in the other
column.
- Be aware of SAT difficulty levels.
- Pay attention to the "given"
information.
- Plug in positives, negatives,
fractions, and zero.
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Grid-In Items
The ten grid-in items do not give you choices to pick from.
You have to work through the problem and then grid in your answer
on the answer sheet.
Don't panic -- they aren't as bad as they seem. The grid-in
items make up only 10 of the 60 math problems on the test. Even
if you missed them all, you caould still get a good overall
score. (But, we don't want this happen on you)
- Practice filling in the grids.
- DO NOT grid-in mixed numbers.
- No negatives or variables.
- Don't bother reducing fractions.
- Decimals
- Begin gridding in the far left column.
- Some items will have more than one possbile
answer.
- Guess!
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