College Reviews

General Tips:

1. Carefully read all the directions and questions. If you do not read the questions and directions carefully you will end up rereading and wasting the time.

2. Answer each question carefully. First use the scracth paper to answer the questions before committing to the final answer unless you are absolutely sure about it. If you correctly answer the initial questions you may get higher scores. Do not skip any questions and make a quality guess by eliminating some of the choices. Do not spend too much time on a single question.

3. Practice Practice Practice. This is the key to taking any test successfully. You should take several mock up tests at home before attempting it a real test. Test taking is an art and more you practice better you will master it.


Verbal Section:

1. For the sentence completion part, try to complete the sentence with words that make sense to you and then view the possible answers. The evaluate each and every answer and see if you sentence makes sense and select one of the answers accordingly. Remember, haste is waste. Take you time.

2. For analogies, eleminate all answer pairs that are clearly wrong. Then create a sentence in your mind that uses the two capitalized words. Watch for the possibly correct answers that appear in the reverse order. Do not jump at the obvious answer as it can mislead you.

3. For antonyms, use word parts to figure out the meaning of unknown words. Look for the clues by thinking of similarly constructed words. Evaluate all options before answering the question.

4. For the reading comprehension, you should select your answers to the questions solely on what is stated or implied in the passages. Starting and ending sentences of the paragraph can be critical to the entire question. Read the entire passage carefully but do not waste time on memorizing details. Search for the answers in the paragraph as you go through the questions.


Math Section:

1. For the multiple chocie section, carefully read the question and then select the answer. You should have a good understanding of the critical definitions, formulas, and concepts that appear in common questions. Do not spend too much time one detailed cacluations. Look for a shortcut if the question seems to be time consuming.

2. For the quantitative comparisons, questions are usually simpler and should take less time than the standard multiple choice. Always take into the account the factions, zeroes, negitave and non-integer numbers. Don't get carreid away because you are simply trying to make the relative comparisons.

Analytic Section:

1. Read the entire question first and then read the entire arguement. You should pay attention to crtical keywords For example, always, never, almost etc. Consider eliminating the answers which go beyond the scope of the question itself.