Math Tests

I thought this was highly relevant ... not only is it good advice for, *ahem*, certain physics tests, it is also applicable to the GREs at least (and probably the MCAT, though I never took one myself).

The part about story problems is spot on. Read them like this at first: "Blah blah blah FIVE VOLTS blah blah TEN OHMS blah blah blah WHAT blah blah CURRENT." The answer is likely to be 0.5, independent of the blahs.

At least back in my day, the GRE math was almost identical to the SAT math. And story problems haven't changed much. "As I was going to St. Ives ..." (yes, that riddle in fact pre-dates Die Hard III)