Today I finished making the flashcards from the vocab lists in my Cracking the GRE book. I already had 50% of the main lists covered with my cards from the flashcard kit I bought. However, they added some "bonus" lists, and basically threw in words that have more than one meaning. For example, meet means fitting or proper, intimate to imply, suggest or insinuate, and waffle, to equivocate or change one's position. Now I have about 150 more flash cards to work through.
I also started in on the math chapter. My math is a little rusty, but I actually did pretty well. I learned some shortcuts that I have never heard of before, stuff like "an integer is divisible by four if the sum of the last two digits is divisible by four." That will certainly make life easier (you're not allowed to use calculators during the exam). I am a tiny bit ashamed to admit that this problem took me forever:
"At the rate of f/3 feet per m minutes, how many feet can a bicycle travel in s seconds?"
A) fs/60m
B) 60s/fm
C) fms/180
D) fm/180s
E) fs/180m
My problem is, the book tries to teach you the easy way to figure out these problems, but I tend to just skim through the text and jump to the example problems and solve them the hard algebraic way. Finding the answer was easier than I made it.
I know the stuff I am posting is pretty meaningless, but I am writing all this down to give myself a timeline to reflect upon for the future. That way I can look back and see when I did what, and how much time I needed to do something.
I will offer a rice krispie treat to the first person to answer that question correctly. Abby, when are you going to collect on your winnings from the x-ray? ;)
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3 comments:
May 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Oh man. I was just going to go to bed and then I saw you put up a challenge. I've been working on it and have found that I'm totally confused by the wording of the problem. Is that exactly how the problem is worded? I have to admit, I too am trying to do it algebraically, however I just can't even figure out how to set up the first equation because I don't know how many f's and m's there are and where they should go. Perhaps I'm over tired. I'm going to give it a shot in the morning.
adrecou - The sound a brain makes when trying to do word problems after not having done any in 2 years.
May 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM
ps - and is there even an ='s sign at all?
May 6, 2009 at 9:47 AM
So it's the next day and I've tried to make sense of it all and, well, I just can't. So I'm going to take a semi-educated/a tiny big of process of elimination guess and say D)fm/180s. Final answer?
banto - When a person makes a semi-educated/tiny big of a process of elimination guess, that person is considered to be a banto.
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