While WorldQuant University provides a list of the topics you need to know, they don’t provide you with any sample questions. This means you don’t know how hard to exam will be and what specific aspects of the math topics you need to know.
Don’t worry I’ve got you!
After writing and passing the exam, I hired 3 mathematicians to work with me on creating a range of questions on the topics you need to know. We created questions that were of similar difficulty.
If you are wondering how to study check out my post here :
What do I have for you? A sample of new questions (not in the sale packs below) look like this:
Then on a separate page the solution, so you can try them out yourself.
To help you pass the test I have a few options for you.
60 Questions and Solutions
I worked with three mathematicians to expand upon the types of questions from the exam to give you a wide set of questions to practice with. This 60 question and solution set contains 30 challenging core mathematics and 30 statistics questions.
These aren’t just the single-line answers either! Thorough step-by-step solutions are provided, sometimes even more than one methods is demonstrated. It took a couple weeks of work, but I finally got this package together for you.
For just $1 / per question and solution, this download will show you what you will face on the exam. Just $60 to be prepared. Don’t waste your time studying what you don’t need.
10 Sample Questions and Solutions
If you just want a quick sample of what the test questions will be like this package will let you get that preview. These are 5 questions from the 60-pack’s core math and 5 from the statistics.
Click here to download 10 questions and the solutions for $15.
10 Sample Questions
You’re a math genius! You don’t need someone else’s solutions!
You just want a quick peek at what you’re up against. $10 to take a look.
I recently applied for and was accepted to WorldQuant University’s Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MScFE) program! So far I’m enjoying the experience and the online courses fit my lifestyle perfectly.
Just looking for sample exam questions? Check out my post here!
With some of the math heavy courses coming up I have been reflecting on the entrance exam, their Quantitative Proficiency Test. I found this test extremely hard to study for. First, I graduate almost 6 years ago, and this sort of math is not a part of my everyday work. Second, the topic list is extensive and fails to provide any details on how deep into each subject one should go. The Official Guidance:
“The Mathematics section comprises 20 questions, covering differential calculus, integral calculus, matrices and linear algebra, set theory, differential equations, complex numbers, sequences and series, logic and proofs, multivariate calculus, convergence of sequences and functions, and partial differential equations. The Statistics section comprises 20 questions, covering exploratory data analysis, elementary probability, univariate random variables, bi-variate random variables, generating functions, statistical estimation theory, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, and simple linear regression.”
WQU 2019
I figured I would share how I studied and hopefully this will give you a starting point.
I wanted to get a high-level overview and inspired so I started by watching and taking notes of the “Essence” series on YouTube by 3Blue1Brown. Essence of Calculus Essence of Linear Algebra These two series are incredibly well put together, I found them genuinely entertaining, and a great place to start. NO these will not replace doing actual problems.
My next stop was practice problems and I turned to Khan Academy. Khan Academy seems to offer problems up to a first year of undergraduate university level or so. What I like about Khan Academy is that you can work through problems quickly, if you get stuck they have worked solutions, and they offer quizzes to test where you are. For me this meant that I could quickly hone in on specific areas I was weak on and cover these topics before getting into more difficult problems. For each of the subjects linked here you can do the Course Challenge at the bottom. When you pass it you are ready to move on. Differential Calculus Integral Calculus Multivariate Calculus Linear Algebra Differential Equations Statistics and Probability
At this point I would say you are mostly ready to go. You’ve covered most of the topics and techniques you will need to know to do okay on the test. BUT the test questions are certainly a level-harder than what I was seeing on Khan Academy. So at this point I would recommend heading over to MIT’s OpenCourseWare. Here the topic list pretty much follows the same outline as that for Khan Academy, but the problem sets are much harder. If you have all the basics covered from Khan Academy you can do the mid-terms and exams from MIT right away. Then determine which lectures you need to review to get you through the more difficult problems. Single Variable Calculus Multivariable Calculus Linear Algebra Differential Equations Introduction to Probability and Statistics Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability
Full Disclosure : I gave myself two full weeks to review these topics and that was barely enough time for me. I was truly only able to get through all the Khan Academy material and was in the process of doing mid-terms and going deeper on each of the MIT courses when I wrote the test. The exam I wrote (I assume they draw from a random bank of questions) had one question on differential equations, so the fact that I hadn’t gotten there yet wasn’t too bad. Also, half the test is on statistics and probability, so logically you should spend half your study time on those topics if possible.
Hope this helps you get studying!
Thanks for reading, Thomas
Update : Wow I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on this post. Initially, I planned on blogging a very specific study guide, directing you through external resources. Creating practice quizzes for each section with step-by-step solutions (all from my two weeks of notes and more). BUT ask anyone who has worked with LaTeX (spoiler alert you have to for the 3rd course 620:DTSP) and they will tell you it is incredibly time consuming, so I gave up on this idea.
Further Update : I’ve worked with some mathematicians to create problems and solutions for you to practice with!
60 Questions and Solutions
I worked with three mathematicians to expand upon the types of questions from the exam to give you a wide set of questions to practice with. This 60 question and solution set contains 30 challenging core mathematics and 30 statistics questions.
These aren’t just the single-line answers either! Thorough step-by-step solutions are provided, sometimes even more than one methods is demonstrated. It took a couple weeks of work, but I finally got this package together for you.
For just $1 / per question and solution, this download will show you what you will face on the exam. Just $60 to be prepared. Don’t waste your time studying what you don’t need.
10 Sample Questions and Solutions
If you just want a quick sample of what the test questions will be like this package will let you get that preview. These are 5 questions from the 60-pack’s core math and 5 from the statistics.
Click here to download 10 questions and the solutions for $15.
10 Sample Questions
You’re a math genius! You don’t need someone else’s solutions!
You just want a quick peek at what you’re up against. $10 to take a look.
