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- Subject-verb agreement: the rules the exam actually tests
The exam does not test agreement you can hear. It tests the four constructions that hide the subject, and each one has a rule you can apply without an ear for it.
- Word analogy: name the relation and the answer follows
An analogy is decided before you look at the options. Say the relation as a sentence, keep its direction, and tighten it until one pair survives.
- Fractions and decimals without a calculator
Converting is the slow way. A dozen equivalences worth knowing by sight, and the two habits that turn a minute of long division into ten seconds.
- Word problems: turning a sentence into an equation
The arithmetic is never the hard part. Naming the unknown is, and there are only about six sentence patterns the exam builds problems from.
- Percentage and ratio problems, worked end to end
Percent of, percent change, discount and commission are one idea in four costumes. Find the whole, find the part, and the arithmetic is the easy half.
- Number series: how to find the rule in under a minute
Four rules cover almost every number series on the exam. Take the differences first, and the rest follows. Worked items from our own bank.
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