So I suck in QR any advice?

[mjzgrk]

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My test is less than a week and I'm scoring on practice tests 14.... Not good how can I boost my score up in the next week before my exam? I have seen chads videos 2 times but he doesn't really have much to go off of for QR. any advice? I'm a beginner all over again in qr

 

[andrewhntran]

Chad's videos alone is not enough. What other materials, practice tests are you using? I personally recommend math destroyer, qvault, and bootcamp.

 

[hurley]

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[mjzgrk]

Chad's videos alone is not enough. What other materials, practice tests are you using? I personally recommend math destroyer, qvault, and bootcamp.

I have destroyers and qvault and boot camp however I did the destroyers twice however I don't get it still. I don't understand when to use the equations or how to form them based off the word problem.

 

[mjzgrk]

Is your problem that you are too slow and can't answer the questions in enough time?
or do you work every problem but end up with the wrong answer choice?

If you're getting a 14 you're likely both slow/unfamiliar with how to attack questions and make errors.
I suggest practicing basic algebra which will help you become quicker at assessing how to answer questions upon reading them so you waste almost zero time "thinking how to solve it" and can start calculating immediately.

To help you speed up, besides doing 300+ practice problems, make a few notecards on basic high yield properties to help you memorize formulas.

And exactly the other point I get hung up on a problem thinking it is easy and then I manage to waste 327seconds on one problem 🙁

 

[Msmouth]

My advice would be to guess, mark and move on with any problems that you think will take you too long. Do all of the problems you know how to do quickly and if you have time at the end go back and try the harder ones. If you linger on harder ones you could miss 3 easy questions at the end of the exam. Good luck!

 

[mjzgrk]

Keep the advice coming! And thank you guys for your help and strategies 🙂

 

[andrewhntran]

My advice would be to guess, mark and move on with any problems that you think will take you too long. Do all of the problems you know how to do quickly and if you have time at the end go back and try the harder ones. If you linger on harder ones you could miss 3 easy questions at the end of the exam. Good luck!

Exactly, don't waste your time on the exam. Spend no more than 10 s reading each question, if you have no idea after reading it, mark something down and move on. There are a lot of easy questions that you can knock out first.

 

[MedDevil]

I have destroyers and qvault and boot camp however I did the destroyers twice however I don't get it still. I don't understand when to use the equations or how to form them based off the word problem.

The QR section is split into categories of questions. Learn to IDENTIFY what category of question you're facing and the equation you need to know to solve it is practically the same for all questions of that category. I thought Destroyer was a great resource for QR and matched up pretty closely to the real DAT. Learn the topics you aren't confident about from KhanAcademy, keep practicing sorting problems by category, and you should be fine.

 

[paymaant]

i would purchase crack the DAT math!

 

[hurley]

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[Eri3]

one thing that may help you is getting very fast at simple math. Like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole integers and fractions.
Even if you get just 2 seconds faster that adds up.

Let's assume each question takes an average of 4 steps to solve. If you gain 2 seconds of each step that's : 40Qs X 4 steps = 160 steps total

160 * 2 =320 sec. That's a bit over 5 mins extra time that you gain just from becoming faster at the simple stuff.

 

[mjzgrk]

Thank you! Yeah I am weak in word problems,numerical calculation apparently and probability 🙁

 

[mjzgrk]

How many do I need to get correct out I 45 to obtain an18 at least?

 

[game33]

The math section is out of 40 questions I believe and in order to get at least an 18 you need to get about 25-26 correct to get an 18 according to the DAT conversion chart from online. I'm in the same situation as you.

 

[emitpeels]

I am in the same boat as well. Scares the **** outta me.

 

[tamakisuououran]

My advice would be to guess, mark and move on with any problems that you think will take you too long. Do all of the problems you know how to do quickly and if you have time at the end go back and try the harder ones. If you linger on harder ones you could miss 3 easy questions at the end of the exam. Good luck!

+1

Yeah my plan is to tackle all the questions I can answer in breath. Then on the second timen around start the ones I have to think about it, and even if I dont know still guess, so you wont run out of time. The mark tool is superb.

 

[tamakisuououran]

My test is less than a week and I'm scoring on practice tests 14.... Not good how can I boost my score up in the next week before my exam? I have seen chads videos 2 times but he doesn't really have much to go off of for QR. any advice? I'm a beginner all over again in qr

Also if you are not good at math, you shouldnt start w/ the destroyer for its too advanced if you have no idea what you`re doing. You should start with something more rudimentary. Also have you tried the "for dummies" series? They helped me alot back in the day when I was taking Trig and Calc.

 

[mjzgrk]

See another I forgot to mention I am a backwards individual. For instance, whatever the normal population thinks is a hard question I find it to be easy and whatever is easy to the rest I find extremely hard. Idk🙁 destroyer seemed like it made sense to me. But like Kaplan and qvault questions not so much 🙁 I will try the for "dummies"

 

[mjzgrk]

Does anyone know if the Kaplan flash cards are any good that came with the course?

 

[sskater]

Does anyone know if the Kaplan flash cards are any good that came with the course?

Don't buy the Kaplan QR flashcards! They are extremely basic except for a few useful ones...
Just make flashcards on your own for Trig, common angles, and simple geometry concepts!

 

[mjzgrk]

Ok thanks... Is DAT boot camp harder than real deal? On that u finally scored 16...better than before but still need work.

 

[sskater]

Ok thanks... Is DAT boot camp harder than real deal? On that u finally scored 16...better than before but still need work.

From what I've read on the forums, the general consensus is that DATBootcamp's QR is more calculation intensive, giving you less time to do the section which is actually a great idea, since on test day you'll be fatigued and other pressure! I would keep doing them for sure.

Like you, I took a practice test on Kaplan and got 16 on QR. Ran out of time, left 8 questions blank :O ~2weeks ago, I started doing the subsubject tests on DATBootcamp QR and will move on to the actual practice tests soon. Test in 2.5weeks!

I have to say though the "wave" strategy is good. First wave do all the questions that jump out at you. 2nd wave review marked questions, if they still don't pop out of you move on. 3rd wave, tackle the remaining questions.