Why I Built This

Hey, I'm Nader.

Math was never the problem for me. I always liked math, did fine in it growing up. Standardized tests were a different story. Something about the format would make my brain freeze up. The SAT was rough. I went into the GRE pretty sure it was going to be the same kind of experience.

When I started studying I did what most people do. Bought the prep books. Did the practice questions. Watched the YouTube videos. After a few weeks I noticed something. A lot of the questions weren't actually different from each other. They had different numbers, different wording, but underneath they were asking the same kind of thing in the same kind of way.

So I started keeping notes. Not memorizing questions, more like trying to identify what the test was actually doing under the surface. Two questions about percentages that looked totally different but cracked open the same way. Geometry questions that were one geometry question in five different outfits. The patterns were there once I started looking for them.

By the time I was done I had something like 30 patterns written down. Felt like I'd cheated almost. Walked in for the test recognizing setups instead of solving from scratch.

170 on quant. I'm not saying it's all because of the patterns. But I'm pretty sure I would've scored a lot lower without them.

This site is basically that list, turned into something usable. It's still a work in progress and I'm adding to it as I go. If you're where I was a few months before the test, hopefully it saves you some time.

Thanks for being here.

Nader