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I'm Done! Not too hungover from yesterday
and I have work in like 45 min's so I'll just post scores.
leave me a hit if you want any additional info!
In respect to my personal goals, I almost shat myself when that screen popped up.
I had no idea it was just gonna suddenly appear after i finished QR.
I didnt even get time to breathe! Whats with that!?
PAT:
QR:
RC:
BIO:
GC:
OC:
TS:
AA:
Maybe I'll do a overview or something if you guys want, just let me know!
peace and love
- building
:::edit::::
Alright back for an update.
I'll do a quick run over of some sections:
BIO: Surprisingly basic with some curveball throw in's. I wasn't too thrown off by some of the questions. And yes! i saw a couple of the famous questions that have been mentioned/debated on in the forum!
Gchem: This was probably my worst section. I had a bitch of a time trying to not get into a bad mindset, because i had some annoying calculations. the majority of the problems were very standard . nothing crazy, just stuff you usually see on topscore etc.
Ochem: I thought it was straightforward, but I must've fallen to some traps cuz I felt solid about basically every question.
PAT: apparently i did well. i'm not gonna say it was easy, because it wasnt. everytime I do a PAT it's a battle and it sounds kinda creepy, but I enjoy the PAT section. It's a huge brain drain and crazy puzzle that i'm getting credit for finishing! and like bruinpredent thought, i did grow up playing alot of video games. Not so much anymore.
breakdown of the PAT:
Apeture- pretty easy ~ topscore. eff achiever on this section
TFE- Same as above
Angle - I usually do decent on this section, I just go with my gut feeling. on average i miss like 2-4 in the angle section, but it was pretty smooth sailing today. I don't do anything too special. I use 3 main techinques:
1. I use the side of my pencil to isolate the legs of the angle into an isosceles triangle and make a call.
2. sometimes use the corner of a paper to measure angles around 90 degrees
3. I POE like my life depends on it.
Hole Punch: Generally good, I had a couple crazy ones. slowed down and took the time to draw them out on paper. I usually watch for tricks or unnecessary folding. and when i'm really desperate to get them right, i make a square paper template. it works well for the hardones, but becomes useless after like 2-3 because you're drawing on it and poking holes or whatnot. it's effective tho!
Cubes: are cubes... count them fast and danger. dont make mistakes, check them again if you have time! I can usually cruise through this section in about 3-4 mins. I use it to give me more time in angles and it usually catches me up for the last section
Folding: I feel i had a fair one. Not as easy as i'd like it, but not too many of this shaded this side and this side - turn and fold crap. I hate those. probably had 3-4 of those, but they werent killer like on achiever. Most of them were what shapes do they make and what not, and i saw a couple big tricks that were gunnin for people in a hurry.
All and all this section felt like a normal section of PAT on a practice test. When it comes down to it: I did well because i had a good day on the angles. Everything else you can reason through pretty well if you're focused and calm. I would say PAT ~ Topscore, but I only took one of their PAT's
I hate on the level of achiever's PAT, but my god it made me anal when it came to picking out detail.
Achiever PAT is probably 30-40% harder than what I had, but it sure made me very quick at keying in on tricks and complex shapes.
RC: Alright I thought I did wayy better on this section than I did. Though I'll admit, I was really excited that the test was over halfway done and I was kind of freakin out about the QR, so I can see why my performance kinda slacked on this section. I remember thinking alot of side thoughts like.. hmm I wonder what kind of beer I'm drinkin tonight... That was definitely bad.. But I was very focused for the most part and it worked out alright.
Advice: Like someone said before, FOCUS. I did a lil breathing exercise and even closed my eyes for a bit before i started this section.
Topics: Comets and Asteroids, Brain Imaging Tech, Neuroreceptors(NMDA AMDA?) stuff like that. It wasn't as bad as i thought, because I had take a couple tests that only gave you 50 mins. like the old non-CBT style.. so i knew my slow places and paced myself at about 1 min a question. finished with about 8 mins to spare and rested up for QR
QR: I had a solid QR, pretty diverse on topics. No crazy trig, so that was nice. I crammed a couple trig identities, but didn't end up using them. I had 3 probability q's, one was tough, I had to just go with my head on it. simple geometry. some smart cancelling and rounding questions. all and all easier i think than TOPscore.. even tho i didn't take any of their QR's i'll looked through topics.
A lil bit harder than Achiever, but obviously, some people get horrible QR sections.
I'm Done! Not too hungover from yesterday
and I have work in like 45 min's so I'll just post scores. leave me a hit if you want any additional info!
In respect to my personal goals, I almost shat myself when that screen popped up.
I had no idea it was just gonna suddenly appear after i finished QR.
I didnt even get time to breathe! Whats with that!?
PAT:
QR:
RC:
BIO:
GC:
OC:
TS:
AA:
Maybe I'll do a overview or something if you guys want, just let me know!
peace and love
- building
:::edit::::
Alright back for an update.
I'll do a quick run over of some sections:
BIO: Surprisingly basic with some curveball throw in's. I wasn't too thrown off by some of the questions. And yes! i saw a couple of the famous questions that have been mentioned/debated on in the forum!
Gchem: This was probably my worst section. I had a bitch of a time trying to not get into a bad mindset, because i had some annoying calculations. the majority of the problems were very standard . nothing crazy, just stuff you usually see on topscore etc.
Ochem: I thought it was straightforward, but I must've fallen to some traps cuz I felt solid about basically every question.
PAT: apparently i did well. i'm not gonna say it was easy, because it wasnt. everytime I do a PAT it's a battle and it sounds kinda creepy, but I enjoy the PAT section. It's a huge brain drain and crazy puzzle that i'm getting credit for finishing! and like bruinpredent thought, i did grow up playing alot of video games. Not so much anymore.
breakdown of the PAT:
Apeture- pretty easy ~ topscore. eff achiever on this section
TFE- Same as above
Angle - I usually do decent on this section, I just go with my gut feeling. on average i miss like 2-4 in the angle section, but it was pretty smooth sailing today. I don't do anything too special. I use 3 main techinques:
1. I use the side of my pencil to isolate the legs of the angle into an isosceles triangle and make a call.
2. sometimes use the corner of a paper to measure angles around 90 degrees
3. I POE like my life depends on it.
Hole Punch: Generally good, I had a couple crazy ones. slowed down and took the time to draw them out on paper. I usually watch for tricks or unnecessary folding. and when i'm really desperate to get them right, i make a square paper template. it works well for the hardones, but becomes useless after like 2-3 because you're drawing on it and poking holes or whatnot. it's effective tho!
Cubes: are cubes... count them fast and danger. dont make mistakes, check them again if you have time! I can usually cruise through this section in about 3-4 mins. I use it to give me more time in angles and it usually catches me up for the last section
Folding: I feel i had a fair one. Not as easy as i'd like it, but not too many of this shaded this side and this side - turn and fold crap. I hate those. probably had 3-4 of those, but they werent killer like on achiever. Most of them were what shapes do they make and what not, and i saw a couple big tricks that were gunnin for people in a hurry.
All and all this section felt like a normal section of PAT on a practice test. When it comes down to it: I did well because i had a good day on the angles. Everything else you can reason through pretty well if you're focused and calm. I would say PAT ~ Topscore, but I only took one of their PAT's
I hate on the level of achiever's PAT, but my god it made me anal when it came to picking out detail.
Achiever PAT is probably 30-40% harder than what I had, but it sure made me very quick at keying in on tricks and complex shapes.
RC: Alright I thought I did wayy better on this section than I did. Though I'll admit, I was really excited that the test was over halfway done and I was kind of freakin out about the QR, so I can see why my performance kinda slacked on this section. I remember thinking alot of side thoughts like.. hmm I wonder what kind of beer I'm drinkin tonight... That was definitely bad.. But I was very focused for the most part and it worked out alright.
Advice: Like someone said before, FOCUS. I did a lil breathing exercise and even closed my eyes for a bit before i started this section.
Topics: Comets and Asteroids, Brain Imaging Tech, Neuroreceptors(NMDA AMDA?) stuff like that. It wasn't as bad as i thought, because I had take a couple tests that only gave you 50 mins. like the old non-CBT style.. so i knew my slow places and paced myself at about 1 min a question. finished with about 8 mins to spare and rested up for QR
QR: I had a solid QR, pretty diverse on topics. No crazy trig, so that was nice. I crammed a couple trig identities, but didn't end up using them. I had 3 probability q's, one was tough, I had to just go with my head on it. simple geometry. some smart cancelling and rounding questions. all and all easier i think than TOPscore.. even tho i didn't take any of their QR's i'll looked through topics.
A lil bit harder than Achiever, but obviously, some people get horrible QR sections.
