Study Day 2-Princeton Review Arithmetic and Algebra

I finally finished the arithmetic section of the Princeton review. I am now starting to review the algebra portion of the book.The concepts are coming back to me but data sufficiency is still giving me a little bit of a hard time. Still Princeton Review does a good job of breaking them down I think. Their flow chart for tackling data sufficiency was particularly handy, at least for me. As a computer science engineer flowcharts became like a second language to me.

So basically the way to work them is:

I'm a very visual person, so being able to see path to take when facing data sufficiency questions helps. I stop worrying about all the answer choices and focus on the ones that it could be. I still have a long way to go with data sufficiency but I think practice will be the key.

I feel like I am moving at such a slow pace. I love reading, and I can usually read a good book in one sitting, but this book. It is around 300 pages and I just reached the 100s yesterday. In high school and in college I had a completely different mindset when it came to studying. I relied on my natural smarts, what I listened to in class and a cram session. That is all it took and I made really good grades so in studying for this test I have to fight the urge to skim through the chapters and jump to the exercises. I am reading, taking notes, doing the exercises, checking them and if there is a mistake I don't move on until I understand why I made the mistake and how to arrive at the correct answer. I hope to take a practice test by the end of this week to see where I'm at .

Slow and steady wins the race; after all, the tortoise did beat the hare. I just have to remember that. Back to the books.