Hi,
I took PCAT in jan 2012, I did ok in chem ( 88%) and bio (88%), but my math score was 55%. I am wondering it would be nice if I can get recommendation for books for math section.
I am taking exam in july, 2012.
Thanks
You can just look for the topics on math section on the pearson website. Go through the topics in your old textbook (even google works too). If you felt like you knew all the questions on the pcat exam you took, but you just didnt have the time to finish it, then you need to work on your test taking skill.
Here are some tips on QA test taking skill I posted last year. Good Luck
"(Mentioned before, but very improtant) When you are taking the pcat QA, skip any problem with diagram and long sentences. Only go back to do them when you are finished with the rest.
When doing calculation questions, look through answers for a second to cross out any obvious wrong answer. Sometimes you dont even need to do the calculation because the answer is so obvious among the choices.
Always Simplify.
If you see a number more than 4 digits long, simplify it. For example, 14,369 -> 14000, sometimes even 2 digits, 58 ->60. This will make your life easier. This is especially a must if you see answer choices differ significantly. (ex: a. 1 b. 150 c. 500 d. 4503)
Simplify more
i^8 --> (i^2)^4
Know tricks,
log 1 = 0, log abc = log a + log b + log c etc..
If a problem takes more than 30 seconds to solve, skip it, you're probably doing it wrong (or not fast enough). They love to throw random stuff to throw you off (Practice lot of questions makes you immune to this).
Then there are the technicals, where you really need to know your stuff, like the relationship between position, velocity, acceleration, graphs of sin and cos, derivative of e^x etc..
I will stop right here for now. First time when I took QA, I got 88. Realized it is more about test taking skill and strategy, went back and got 99. "
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