Whats the secret to getting a great score on the SAT multiple-choice math questions?
The secret to getting a great score on the multiple-choice math questions it to realize that the SAT math test is really not a math test, it’s a combination of a reasoning test and a thinking test that uses fairly simple, straight-forward math. In other words, the solutions to any question is not going to involve pages of computations or plugging in a lot of numbers into your calculator. What makes questions difficult is figuring out what the question itself is asking, the wording of the question, and then figuring out what your goal is in the question and what two or three steps mathematically do you need to reach your goal. The questions always start easy and then get progressively harder, so what makes the hard questions hard is not the math you’re going to use, it doesn’t test any advanced math concepts, but it’s figuring out what simple math is required to answer the question.
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