You can find these online or in test prep books. Take a few different practice tests from a few different sources to get a broad variety of questions. The more you practice taking the test, the more comfortable you will be with the format. Start by taking a practice test before you start any other test prep. This will give you a baseline you can use to measure improvement. Then, use a different practice test every few days to check your progress. The number of practice tests you should take will ultimately depend on how long you have to prepare for your exam. Since many test takers only have a few days to prepare, they may only have time for a few practice tests. Most practices tests will help prepare you for a range of test levels from basic to advanced. Abstract reasoning tests often use predictable exercises and transformations to determine the test patterns. Sometimes, a test will use just one exercise per pattern, while other times, it may use many exercises with a pattern. Take a look at examples of the different types of patterns to better understand what kind of changes they dictate. Common exercises and transformations include: Clockwise and counterclockwise rotations Mirroring Movement along vertical, horizontal, or diagonal axes Movement by degree intervals, such as 45, 90, 180, etc. Color alternation, generally between black and white Unlike the SATs or ACTs, there aren't a lot of books to help you study for an abstract reasoning test. Many test makers and test centers, though, offer online study guides. These guides can help you determine what you should be focusing on as you go through your test prep. If you can, look for a guide put out by the maker of your test or your testing center. These will likely most closely mirror the test you will take. There are some books about passing diagrammatic reasoning tests, but these are generally authored by third parties and aren't put out by major publishers. If you have at least a few days to prepare, spend a little time each day doing puzzles. These could be traditional jigsaw puzzles or puzzle games like sudoku. Puzzles help engage the same types of thinking that you will need for your abstract reasoning test. Jigsaw puzzles, for example, help you visualize geometric transformations by requiring you to fit puzzle pieces together. Puzzle games likewise call on you to use critical reasoning to find relationships and patterns.
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One-sentence summary -- Take an abstract reasoning practice test. Learn the common types of abstract reasoning exercises. Check website study guides. Use puzzles to help you practice.

Place your dutch oven on the stovetop with the bread pan in place on your thermal ballast. Cover and heat on high for 15 minutes. Expect to have a few failed loaves which are under-cooked in the middle or over-cooked. If your equipment is different from that shown, your stove may provide more or less heat. Cooking time may need to be varied accordingly. The idea of baking in a haybox is that enough heat has built up in the dutch oven. Completely surrounding the dutch oven with insulation will keep the heat from escaping and allow the bread to continue to bake. Remove the dutch oven from the stove using oven mitts. Instead of finishing the bread on the stove top, carefully cover the pot with insulating materials such as blankets or sweatshirts to create a haybox. Make sure to use a durable natural fabric like cotton. Synthetic material could melt from the heat of the pot. If it is a sunny day, place the haybox in the sun for a little added warmth. Three hours gives a better chance of success and cannot hurt the bread. When the time is up, or you just get too hungry to wait, uncover the pot carefully. If it's overdone and dry or burnt, or underdone and doughy in the middle, make a note of it and adjust the stove top time accordingly the next time you try baking another loaf. If it's perfect, as shown here, enjoy the rewards. You have saved up to 80% of the fuel necessary to bake the same loaf in the oven.
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One-sentence summary -- Start the baking process on the stove top. Finish baking in your own version of a haybox. Leave the pot in the haybox for at least an hour. Cut open a loaf and check to see if it is done baking all the way through the center.

Fanfiction has an extensive and devoted fanbase. There are a range of communities you can post your material on. Arguably the best-known and recommended of these is FanFiction.net. The website has an exhaustive list of different categories, genres and crossovers your work may fit into. Make an account and find the matching category for your work's source material. Quotev, Archive of Our Own, and Wattpad are alternatives if you're looking to publish your story in additional places. It is recommended to publish your story on multiple sites if you can, as this will maximize your story's exposure. There are certain websites that specialize in fanfiction from a particular source. If you're looking to read or write fanfic from the Harry Potter universe for example, there is at least one website specifically dedicated to it. As a general rule, fanfiction should not be written with the intent of having it published commercially. Copyright protects unlicensed individuals from taking advantage of a creative property. However, publishers are beginning to warm up to the idea of publishing works of fanfiction. Although your choice of publisher will be limited to the one with the appropriate creative license, getting it accepted by them may actually stand the chance of turning your work into series canon, provided it doesn't conflict with established canon. For fanfiction writers with commercial aspirations, you can remove any trademarked names and ideas in your story and replace them with original content. Some bestselling 'original' fiction, like E.L James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, began as works of fanfiction. If the book you're writing fanfiction for is common domain, it may be published without any name changes as long as your work is only based on the original works that are common domain. If you're starting to get serious about your creation you can do no better than to talk to other fanfiction aficionados. Sites like FanFiction are perfect for it. Not only will they be able to give you helpful tips and advice on how to improve your craft, they'll also probably help promote your work if they like it enough. As a general rule, if you offer feedback to someone's work, the chances are high you will receive feedback in return. It should go without saying that you'll receive the most helpful feedback from writers that are fans of the same source material you are using.
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Post your story on a Fanfiction outlet. Send your work to publishers. Link up with other fanfic writers.