Quants was tougher than Powerprep

**noton** · 07-01-2003, 07:53 AM

I want to share something about the test. Verbal section is very much similar (standard wise) to powerprep materials. Antonym were not straight forward like Kaplan/Princeton/Barrons. Analogies were rather straight forward. RCs were as usual boring.
But math was bit tougher than the powerprep standard.I had 3 question from coordinate geometry which were based on y=mx+c, x/a+y/b=1 and m1m2=1 folmulas.2 questions were from probability & ermutation-combination. Rest are like powerprep materials.

**vadi** · 07-01-2003, 10:58 AM

thanks for sharing your experience...
can you tell us about your AWA experience too..

**neeraj.d** · 07-01-2003, 11:13 AM

Hi Noton,

Thanks for the info. you have mentioned there were tougher q from co-ordinate geo. and permutaion and combination & probabiltiy. can you please tell were they direct q ???
and in verbal what was the level of RC and how long were they ???

thanks

Neeraj

**noton** · 07-02-2003, 06:06 AM

Hi Neeraj,
Questions on Coordinate Geo were not direct one. To solve them you need to simplify the equation in standard format, then only you can identify the right graph or intersection on x/y co-ordinate. One thing was very important that was the concept of positive or negative slope. If you have strong 10+2 Math base then those are also not a very big issue. Just brush up once, that's enough.
Regarding verbal RC was just like Powerprep but I lost concentration in between. Try to practice full length test (writing+2V+Q) as much as possible at home. Otherwise it would be very much tiresome job. And be sure for sufficient sleep (at least 8 Hrs) before the test.
Regarding AW, topics were from the given(by ETS) list only.

Regards,
-Ask.

**neeraj.d** · 07-02-2003, 08:57 AM

Thanks so much for the info....can you please also throw some light on permutation- combination and probability q' as well.. ??

regds,

Neeraj.

**NickR** · 07-03-2003, 01:43 AM

hey, noton,

I was just wondering...you say antonyms weren't "straightforward" as in the PowerPrep...what do you mean by that? Secondary meanings? Also, how many RC passages did you get and did you have any timing issues?
Thanks and congrats on your score

Nick