<p>The relative depths of the Harvard and MIT math sections left me puzzled. Wouldn’t the geeky vocational guy know the algorithm for doing square roots rather than the preppy Harvard applicant, not because it is complicated, but you’d think that wouldn’t be a priority. The Harvard algebra section looked very similar to the one I took in my college entrance exam, and while we learned things like vulgar fractions in HS, I don’t think arithmetic was big in our college entrance exam. </p>
<p>Interesting that there were so many proofs in geometry versus “find this angle”; I guess it avoids having to draw diagrams on the question paper, but qn 2 left me scratching my head. Loved the terminology in geom 5, “…are drawn from a point without a circle.” The only time I had encountered this usage was in Shakespeare.</p>