It's good that you don't give up--you are a proactive in your own recovery. Eventually, that's going to pay off.

So for the test, you probably have to establish the price of things based on a math formula such as the average price of similar similar commodities and the average amount of income the commodity brings in (it is good to compare). So much of value is not a math formula, it is what is fashionable, potential, etc.--I bet you see where it is SO not a math formula in many ways!

When I was a kid, I always thought of percentages like this: 5/100 (5%) of 250 is like the problem 5/100=X/$250 -- solve for X by multiplying 5*250 and dividing by 100 = $12.50 Using just this logic and not traditional formulas, you can solve a lot of things. Like the 5% compound interest for 2 years on $250 is 12.50 + 13.13 (2nd year 5% of 262.5) = $25.63 interest. You can take a bunch of ratios and reduce them to percentages by dividing the numerator by the denominator then adding them all up and dividing by the number of percentages you are adding together. I know it is more complicated than that, or you would not be struggling. It can be confusing when they want you to use formulas you don't understand. For my insurance test, I sometimes used the math steps from my youth--not the formula the book taught--I don't recommend that--just saying that sometimes that is what worked for me.

Your IQ is high when it comes to "verbal" things not numbers. Or maybe you just didn't get a good math foundation in elementary/middle school. Whatever the cause, you just like writing and talking better than solving math problems and that is what makes you rusty. We are good at what we like doing/spend time doing.