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Preparing for Physics GRE: Intuition vs Memorization
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[QUOTE="Dishsoap, post: 5442023, member: 500663"] Most people are in the same boat as you - knowing the system is flawed, but still forced to jump through the hoops. Fortunately, intuition can help one rule out some (if not all) of the incorrect answers on most questions - dimensional analysis and limiting cases will carry you further than you think. It's not so important to memorize exact equations as it is to memorize [I]forms[/I] of equations - you might now remember the exact form of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, but you might remember that the former has addition in the denominator and the other has subtraction, and that would help you more than you know. Unfortunately, some of the pGRE is just purely random knowledge that can't be derived in the 3 minutes you have per problem. [/QUOTE]
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