Quantitative Practice
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Language Practice
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Reasoning Practice
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PatternsConditionsArgumentsPacing
Quick Facts
- Exam
- Ateneo College Entrance Test
- Owner
- Ateneo de Manila
- Item count
- Not published
- Duration
- Not published
- Passing score
- Not published
- Subject weights
- Not published
- Permit
- Follow current instructions
- Review lanes
- Editorial practice
Operation Order
PEMDAS: group, powers, multiply, divide, add, subtract.
ParenthesesExponentsMultiply divideAdd subtract
Ratio vs Rate
Ratio
- Compares quantities
- Same or different units
Rate
- Quantity per unit
- Often different units
Rate includes a unit basis
Quantitative Practice Picker
- Compare two quantities→Ratio(Part to part)
- Measure per unit→Rate(Distance per time)
- Find relative change→Percent change(Divide by original)
- Find center→Mean or median(Check outliers)
- Need unknown value→Equation(Isolate variable)
- Need shape size→Area formula(Confirm units)
- Choices seem distant→Estimate(Check magnitude)
- Units conflict→Convert first(Then calculate)
Arithmetic
- Percent change
- Change ÷ original
- Ratio
- Part-to-part comparison
- Rate
- Quantity per unit
- Proportion
- Equivalent ratios
- Average
- Total ÷ count
- Weighted average
- Value times weight
- Unit check
- Match required units
Unit Check
Before solving, label every quantity's unit.
Given unitsTarget unitsConversion
Mean vs Median
Mean
- Uses every value
- Sensitive to outliers
Median
- Uses ordered position
- Resists extreme values
Check outliers before choosing
Algebra
- Variable
- Unknown quantity
- Expression
- Numbers and operations
- Equation
- Two equal expressions
- Inequality
- Comparison with range
- Distributive property
- a(b+c) = ab+ac
- Linear slope
- Rise ÷ run
- Substitution
- Replace variable value
Geometry + Data
- Rectangle area
- Length × width
- Triangle area
- Base × height ÷ 2
- Circle area
- πr²
- Pythagorean theorem
- a²+b²=c²
- Mean
- Arithmetic average
- Median
- Middle ordered value
- Outlier
- Extreme data value
Reading Check
Claim, evidence, scope: read all three.
Central claimText evidenceScope limits
Detail vs Main Idea
Detail
- Specific supporting fact
- Local passage evidence
Main idea
- Central passage claim
- Covers whole passage
Broad claim needs broad support
Grammar
- Subject
- Who or what acts
- Verb
- Action or state
- Agreement
- Subject matches verb
- Pronoun antecedent
- Pronoun's clear noun
- Modifier
- Describes nearby target
- Parallelism
- Matched grammatical form
- Comma splice
- Two clauses, wrong comma
Vocabulary
- Denotation
- Dictionary meaning
- Connotation
- Associated feeling
- Context clue
- Nearby meaning evidence
- Synonym
- Similar meaning
- Antonym
- Opposite meaning
- Analogy
- Relationship comparison
- Register
- Audience-appropriate language
Reading Analysis
- Main idea
- Central author claim
- Supporting detail
- Evidence for claim
- Inference
- Supported unstated conclusion
- Tone
- Author's attitude
- Purpose
- Author's intended effect
- Scope
- Claim's actual limit
- Qualifier
- Limits claim strength
Argument Check
Claim needs evidence and a valid link.
ClaimEvidenceReasoning link
Inference vs Assumption
Inference
- Supported by evidence
- Conclusion from text
Assumption
- Needed for argument
- May be unstated
Inference follows; assumption bridges
Language + Logic Picker
- Need central message→Main idea(Whole passage)
- Need stated proof→Supporting detail(Locate evidence)
- Need implied result→Inference(Avoid overreach)
- Need word meaning→Context clue(Use nearby text)
- Need grammar choice→Subject-verb check(Find true subject)
- Need argument gap→Assumption(Required bridge)
- Need disproof→Counterexample(One valid case)
- Need item navigation→Current permit(Follow test rules)
Logic
- Premise
- Given supporting statement
- Conclusion
- Claim being supported
- Assumption
- Unstated required idea
- Necessary condition
- Must be present
- Sufficient condition
- Guarantees result
- Contrapositive
- Reverse and negate
- Counterexample
- One case disproves
Necessary vs Sufficient
Necessary
- Required condition
- Result needs it
Sufficient
- Guaranteeing condition
- It produces result
Sufficient implies; necessary follows
Patterns + Pacing
- Sequence
- Ordered pattern
- Rule
- Pattern transformation
- Elimination
- Remove impossible choices
- Estimate
- Check magnitude quickly
- Mark and return
- Only if allowed
- Time checkpoint
- Pacing review point
- Current permit
- Exam-day source of truth
Common Traps
Rate vs total
Rate is per unit ≠ Total combines units
Mean vs median
Mean shifts with outliers ≠ Median uses position
Evidence vs inference
Evidence is stated ≠ Inference is supported
Correlation vs causation
Correlation moves together ≠ Causation produces change
Necessary vs sufficient
Necessary must occur ≠ Sufficient guarantees result
Subject vs nearby noun
Subject controls verb ≠ Nearby noun distracts
Last Minute
- 1.Official weights: not published
- 2.Official item count: not published
- 3.Official duration: not published
- 4.Official passing score: not published
- 5.Trust current permit, not old posts
- 6.Check target units before calculating
- 7.Find main idea before details
- 8.Use evidence; avoid overreach
- 9.Check subject before verb
- 10.Necessary differs from sufficient
- 11.Estimate before committing
- 12.Follow current test-day instructions
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