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[hmbachman]

I have less than a month left...how do you decipher a diagnostic test to figure out what you should focus on and leave alone till test day?

HP

[tommywallach]

Hey Hmbachman,

The simple truth is that a single test will not give you nearly enough data to make intelligent decisions about where you should focus your time (unless you are abysmally terrifyingly awful at something). Think of it this way:

Imagine that you got a 3D Numbered Ordering game and only got 2 questions right. That might lead you to think that you're terrible at 3D Numbered Ordering. But what if that game was the hardest of your 4 games, and was in fact a REALLY tough one? Now, it's not necessarily a weak point, right? You wouldn't know that unless you had some data on how you did on easier 3D Numbered Ordering games. Make sense?

That being said, you CAN use a single test to work out if you're stronger at games, logical reasoning, or reading comprehension. If there's any significant variance in your percentage correct, obviously focus on whichever one is lowest. However, if you've already been studying for a while, my guess is you aren't seeing any huge variance between the sections.

As long as you've already put a fair amount of time into working on the specific parts of the test (i.e. you can differentiate the different types of games, logical reasoning question types, and reading comp question types, and have a general sense of what technique to apply to each one), you should probably just focus on full-length sections and full-length tests.

Let me know if you have further questions!

-t