gagaloox Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 I found out that the MCAT has a no calculator portion.... how the hell am I supposed to succeed in the complex calculations the MCAT will throw at my face?? I'm really nervous about this people... How did you all combat this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatonekid Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 The MCAT doesn't have complex calculations. And for the numbers I did have to calculate, I just rounded to the nearest 10 to make it easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatonekid Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Oh, and this belongs in the MCAT forum. *moved* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larrivee Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Haha, don't worry bud, it's not that bad. Might help to memorize a couple things though. I memorized square root of 2 and 3 and a couple sin and cos values for 30/60/90 triangles... but that was basically it. Most of the questions give answer options different enough that you can do some rounding and approximation. ps. My friend didn't know you weren't allowed a calculator and he brought one and used it the entire time and never got caught. He asked me why I was bother to memorize square roots and stuff and I told him we aren't allowed calculators and he almost crapped his pants ....he didn't do very well anyways though, rewrote it without the calculator and did better (not that that means calculators make you do worse ooobviously :s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumanmacbook Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Haha, don't worry bud, it's not that bad. Might help to memorize a couple things though. I memorized square root of 2 and 3 and a couple sin and cos values for 30/60/90 triangles... but that was basically it. Most of the questions give answer options different enough that you can do some rounding and approximation. ps. My friend didn't know you weren't allowed a calculator and he brought one and used it the entire time and never got caught. He asked me why I was bother to memorize square roots and stuff and I told him we aren't allowed calculators and he almost crapped his pants ....he didn't do very well anyways though, rewrote it without the calculator and did better (not that that means calculators make you do worse ooobviously :s) If you get the Examkrackers book on verbal and math, they have a bunch of rules to make the calculations much easier. And Jake is right, you really need to rely on rounding figures and memorizing certain values, the MCAT does not test you on complex calculations....if you are finding complex calculations, you are probably doing something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylamonkey Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 +1 on the EK method for math. It's not that bad, and you will learn how to do quick, in-the-head calculations SO much better than before, it's actually a great skill to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slashsev01 Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 ahahhahahah funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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