Quantitative Ability

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The math section in June was much harder than my prep books led me to believe! I used Barons, Peterson to prepare and Cliffnotes Algebra II and Precalc, and calc textbooks as references, and did a smattering of practice problems from each section. I got 88 (nice, lucky number!) but only managed to finish the questions by not doing calculations on many of them but reasoning which of the answers it ought to be. Congrats on your other scores and good luck in August!
 
Key is know your precalc. Especially if you haven't touched that stuff in a while, you'd tend to forget. Know differentiation, algebra, trigonometry, etc. Know that in DEPTH, even if you did well in precalc back in high school. I'd say well over 90% of the quantitative section is precalc. The rest is rounded out by some simple calculus problems.

In this section, you must time manage. Don't bother dwelling on problems that you can't get to working out within 3-5 secs. If you have to pause longer than that, you know you better move on to an easier one because #1-48 are all worth 1 mark. Go for the ones that you know you can solve, like simple substitution questions. I managed to get my unsolved questions down to 4-5 by doing this.
 
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