Guaranteed Admission In Caltech?

mathboy98
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:52:28 +0000

^ You’re right on there. I was actually slightly on that exact inefficiently careful reader side myself, and I did have to practice critical reading, and it paid off. I’m the kind of person who understands the gist of novels quickly, but never had the patience to read long passages for detail – this of course didn’t matter in high school English classes, which were based extensively on writing essays for us.

The reason that I’ve found the slight dreaminess can actually help rather than hurt in some situations - the good test-takers who do NOT enjoy methodically analyzing things may not have the patience to sit down with stuff that is blatantly confusing and figure it out using hours. A combo of brutal willpower to understand things along with interest in a certain subject matter helps there.