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[fenderlove]

I've been taking GRE practice tests all day using the free study prep software from the official ETS site... It has not been reassuring. I don't know how they expect people to do some of the math portions without a calculator. I mean, a lot of it is common knowledge stuff, but the graphing gets me every time especially when the drawings aren't to scale to begin with. If you don't have a scale on a graph how is one to tell if one line is meant to represent 233,000 when it looks like it could represent anywhere from 200,001 to 250,000? They better give me a lot of scratch paper. Sigh, I just want to get it over with.

Comments

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Huh? But what can they ask about a graph if they don't give a scale? What kind of polynom it is for?

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

It's got questions like "Where would this line intersect the graph relative to these other point points" but none of the points have listed values, there's no scale on the graph, and nothing even intersects (0,0). I had to ask the help function to explain how they got their answer, and it was the most complicated thing I've ever seen- drawing out a parabola with little triangles in it connecting it to the graph but there were still no numbers or anything with the plot points so I can't understand how they can say "Your line is exactly four points away from Point X" if you can't really do anything but guess at what Point X is! It's greater than zero but less than your line's points, which could be any of the four bleedin' answer choices! ARGH! *crawls into a hole*

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

If you want to you can send the problem to me, I love sussing out stuff like that.

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