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Did everyone else that used this supplement find the material too easy? Is this enough calculus for the PCAT? I have been study from a calculus review book learning all kinds of difficult things and then I looked at this. Anyone that used the supplement and has already took the actual PCAT, please advise me if I can stop looking at calculus and move on or do I need to keep on studying the calculus. Thanks,
 
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Yes, the online supplement is too easy. I would grab a calc review guide and look at that.

I gave up learning anything but the most basic calc and turns out there were only a few calc questions on my exam, I still got an 85% on the quant part of the test.
 
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I took the PCAT in June and there were like 1-2 questions on Calculus. The rest were on geometry, trig, and algebra. I'm concentrating on geo, trig, and algebra for the October exam. I think you should be fine if you review some math, but don't concentrate on calculus. This is just my opinion since June test had a lot of fractions, algebra, solving for x or y, graphs, etc.
 
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jiepper said:
I took the PCAT in June and there were like 1-2 questions on Calculus. The rest were on geometry, trig, and algebra. I'm concentrating on geo, trig, and algebra for the October exam. I think you should be fine if you review some math, but don't concentrate on calculus. This is just my opinion since June test had a lot of fractions, algebra, solving for x or y, graphs, etc.
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The June 25th test had more than 1-2 calculus questions
 
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jiepper said:
I took the PCAT in June and there were like 1-2 questions on Calculus. The rest were on geometry, trig, and algebra. I'm concentrating on geo, trig, and algebra for the October exam. I think you should be fine if you review some math, but don't concentrate on calculus. This is just my opinion since June test had a lot of fractions, algebra, solving for x or y, graphs, etc.
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I was reading the PCAT handbook and it indicated that there would be 30% calculus. I gues you are lucky if you received much fewer than 30% calculus.

Also, the PCAT handbook did not list trig as a topic. Their handbook states that the quant section contains questions in algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, and calculus.

Were the trig questions under the "pre-calculus" umbrella?

thanks for your suggestions.
 
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I had one question on limit. There were no derivatives. There was a question on parabola. I also believe that trig is pre-calculus for most people. I don't know. I guess many people know more than I do from what I have read in this forum, you can believe what I said or don't have to.

Trigonometry topics include: ratio proportion, the Pythagorean Theorem, the law of sine, cosine, etc. I just have to review everything and not just calculus.

Good luck.
 
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jiepper said:
I took the PCAT in June and there were like 1-2 questions on Calculus. The rest were on geometry, trig, and algebra. I'm concentrating on geo, trig, and algebra for the October exam. I think you should be fine if you review some math, but don't concentrate on calculus. This is just my opinion since June test had a lot of fractions, algebra, solving for x or y, graphs, etc.
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What kind of graphs are on there?
 
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One question that I remember well was a graph question that has about 7 points and you have to calculate the average. I wish I can draw a graph for you on here but I can't.

According to the book that I used to study for my June PCAT. It stated that Trigonemotry and calculus are not included. But many people stated differently in this forum. I bought this book in March 2005. It's Peterson's PCAT Success, copyrighted is 2004 but it has written year 2005 on the cover. Should I buy a new PCAT review book??
 
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jiepper said:
It stated that Trigonemotry and calculus are not included. But many people stated differently in this forum. I bought this book in March 2005. It's Peterson's PCAT Success, copyrighted is 2004 but it has written year 2005 on the cover. Should I buy a new PCAT review book??
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Yes. Calculus has been on the test since October 2004. Know all there is to know about log, also.
 
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alphawind said:
The current PCAT Candidate Information Booklet from www.pcatweb.info, in the the section "Test Content" tells you the % of each topic being covered on the PCAT. 30% calculus.
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Yeah 30% of the questions on the math section are calculus, but you'd have people swear there was only 2 or 3 calculus questions. haha

I donno what some of those people are talkin about because I the PCAT that I took had quite a bit of Calculus on it
 
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jiepper said:
One question that I remember well was a graph question that has about 7 points and you have to calculate the average. I wish I can draw a graph for you on here but I can't.
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How do you get the average of a graph?

Also, do we have to know about continuous and noncontinuous functions? I'm not sure how much pre-calc (or trig) is on the test.
 
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