Day 4 - Geometry & Data Sufficiency

Okay, so I finally finished the Kaplan Math workbook. I'm happy it's over. I'm not happy it's not really over.

Yeah, I did finish the book, but only 'technically'. I covered the remaining Geometry and Data Sufficiency sections. Geometry was alright. I figured this is one section, even though easy, most likely to make mistakes in. The problems (at least the ones in the practice tests of the book) weren't too difficult at all, but initial concentration lapses showed in my answers. The mistakes I was making were mostly in questions involving figures; primarily on (180-x) subtractions, etc. A shake of the head and a spurt of concentration later, these issues were sorted out.

Data Sufficiency was always intimidating for me. It's the question format I knew I had to work on most. That's why I guess it was a bad choice starting it late at night, after a tiring day. I lost so much concentration that I actually marked almost all answers wrong on the first of 2 practice tests on the section; not really solved them wrong, but marked the wrong option. I figured I'd have to take the test again some other time so I didn't check the solutions. Anyway, test 2 exposed my apprehensions about DS, and I scored only 19/25. Clearly, I need to work a lot more on this section in the coming weeks.

For the moment, I'm going to start with Verbal, and review it once, before I get back to attacking my math.

Over 'n out!

SUMMARY OF WORK
Kaplan Math - Geometry and Data Sufficiency, page 206 - 340 (excluding the GRE part)

LESSONS LEARNT
1. Geometry requires extra concentration - well for me atleast.
2. Data sufficiency is scary but doable, I'm sure - ditto