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What are the top 5 tricks done on both verbal and math that ETS does?

By Soulofheaven8 (Soulofheaven8) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:22 pm: Edit

.....some "latent" tricks please. The obvious ones are already well divulged. =)

By Captcalculus (Captcalculus) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:33 pm: Edit

on quantitive comparisons, i've noticed that near the end if it gives two figures where one would assume that figure a is greater, the answer is usually C.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:39 pm: Edit

Tricks as in traps for the unsuspecting?

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:41 pm: Edit

One trick is using the terms of "lesser value" or "what is the least" and then listing all negative numbers.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 03:50 pm: Edit

Drawing TWO identical forms in QC but omitting to provide a scale. This is different from the "NOT to SCALE" drawings.

An example is to provide 2 identical piecharts composed of different percentages. They expect you to answer A or B, however the answer HAS to be D since no scale is given for the piecharts and you do not know the value of 100% of Pie A or Pie B.

It is a very effective trick

By Smiley (Smiley) on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 07:50 pm: Edit

Moving the testing location w/o telling those who have registered