Strategy to Problem Solving?

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Strategy to Problem Solving?

by cbenk121 » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:14 am
Hey all,

I wanted to see if anyone had a general approach worked out for PS. This site had an interesting article the other day about two hypothetical high scorers who had a general approach for PS problems.

I have an approach for DS and SC, but not PS. Currently, I read the problem, and an approach will quickly come to mind or it doesn't. When it doesn't, the problem can take more than 2 minutes, forcing me into a guessing scenario. Furthermore, knowing that there's these problems that are difficult, I rush through those problems where the approach comes quickly, making a stupid mistake more likely.

Any ideas? Thank you.
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by DanaJ » Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:16 pm
PS questions cover all sorts of topics, so IMHO you're not doing a terrible thing if you don't have a clear cut strategy. I myself used to just read a question and go from there: after all, you need to solve the given problem, i.e. adapt to context.