Hey Texyrialed!
I used to be
hate worded problems as well, but I've managed to improve at these over the past year. Here are some tips that I think will be useful.
- Immerse yourself in the situation and enjoy it! Especially if the task is creative, you should try to imagine yourself being the architect, epidemiologist, whatever your role is, rather than a mere student. Hopefully this helps you to stay more engaged with the task and be aware of domain (e.g. realise that values for lengths can't be negative, etc)
- If you're likely to miss important information in the question, I suggest you develop a system to answer these questions. For example when reading the questions, I
circle everything the question asks for (mark allocations) and
underline important information you might forget (e.g. k>0, label coordinates, etc). These shouldn't take too long but will be very useful later on when checking
- Practice extended response questions! I'm sure you can find many similar problems in chapter reviews and past exams, and trust me you'll be thanking yourself in the SAC for familiarising with this question style
Hope this helps! If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to reply to the thread.
James