lastrun82
04-20-2006, 09:39 PM
hey
just wanted to hand out some last minute advice
1) always stay on pace
2) don't double check your answers or your calculations if you didn't do so in the practice tests (maybe because you think this is the 'real one' and you feel like you need to be extra careful), because if you spend just 15 seconds extra on each question then you're going to need 20 extra minutes to finish the section
3) don't lose hope if the test seems harder than the practices, that was definitely the case for me but my score ended up being the same...the number of questions that you get right doesn't mean jack, if it's hard for you then it's hard for everyone
4) if a passage seems abnormally hard, move on when the time for that passage is up...apparently the test is curved by passage, so if you waste all of your time on a hard passage and don't get to an easy one, the curve will kill you
5) always stay on pace
i felt like crap after walking out of the test site cause i thought i bombed it, but 2 months later i found out that i scored in the upper 30s (more or less what i got on aamc 3-8)
so do your best, and good luck
just wanted to hand out some last minute advice
1) always stay on pace
2) don't double check your answers or your calculations if you didn't do so in the practice tests (maybe because you think this is the 'real one' and you feel like you need to be extra careful), because if you spend just 15 seconds extra on each question then you're going to need 20 extra minutes to finish the section
3) don't lose hope if the test seems harder than the practices, that was definitely the case for me but my score ended up being the same...the number of questions that you get right doesn't mean jack, if it's hard for you then it's hard for everyone
4) if a passage seems abnormally hard, move on when the time for that passage is up...apparently the test is curved by passage, so if you waste all of your time on a hard passage and don't get to an easy one, the curve will kill you
5) always stay on pace
i felt like crap after walking out of the test site cause i thought i bombed it, but 2 months later i found out that i scored in the upper 30s (more or less what i got on aamc 3-8)
so do your best, and good luck