Hi all,
Some of you may know from previous posts that I am applying to Cambridge University to study Natural Sciences. As part of the application process for this course you need to do the NSAA (presumably Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment.) The test I think is on October 19th so I basically have a month to prepare for it.
The problem is that while I enjoy the content on the exams, the style of questions are boring and repetitive. It doesn't seem to actually test much in the way of analytical approach to questions but instead on speed / accuracy in multiple choice questions. If you read through a couple of papers you basically get variants of the same question each year.
I know I can knuckle down and get a lot of practice in on the questions but I'm finding it really hard to motivate myself. Just repeatedly doing the same question with different numbers and a slightly different approach isn't much fun, when you find it more interesting to think about the approach and *why* it works. It's probably less of a problem for the physics Q's as I find them easy but it's worse for maths because there is content from GCSE that I haven't covered in forever too. Any suggestions on ways to make practicing the questions more enjoyable so I can be more productive? Any ideas to make this less boring would be appreciated! I am at least looking forward (hopefully) to the interview as I think that's much more important than the test score, and the admissions staff will actually get to see my analytical thinking their rather than my capacity to memorize how to do a certain type of question over and over again.