CDP and real PAT. Also, Thinkwell Bio?

[oceanangel4]

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Hi everyone!

I had 2 questions. Firstly, I'm using the CDP to prepare for PAT, but I noticed that for the angle ranking questions in CDP, the answer choices they give us seems too "easy." What I mean by that is that it is really easy to eliminate answers based on the choices they give us. For example, an answer choice may look like this:

A) 1-3-4-2
B) 4-2-1-3
C) 1-4-3-2
D) 4-3-1-2

Immediately, I would eliminate B since it is the only answer where 3 is the largest. Then from there, I would eliminate D since it is the only answer where 4 is the smallest angle out of all the remaining answer choices. Then I just compare the middle angles (3 and 4). This seems to work 100% in CDP, which makes it really easy. HOWEVER, is the real DAT test like this?? I think this is almost too good to be true! There were a few times when I was doing CDP angle ranking questions where I would get answer choices like the one above, and I would choose choice B just to see if they try to trick us and that is actually the right choice, but it has always been wrong. How close is CDP to the real PAT section in that regard?

Also, I just recently stumbled upon some bio videos from Thinkwell. The professor teaching is George Wolfe and he is AMAZING!! I am considering buying his videos since it gives an overview of introductory biology and I have not taken any biology courses since sophomore year of high school (going to take bio next summer and I am a rising junior). I was wondering, has anyone else used these videos? How good are they for prep for DAT?

I would appreciate any help or comments! Thank you all so much in advance!

 

[aznnytezx]

Do you wanna buy it? My subscription is until June 2013.

 

[oceanangel4]

Bump! Any thoughts on the angle ranking part?

 

[hahahigh]

Thinkwells' videos are long and overly specific - they're a good supplement for concepts or areas you don't understand, but I would not waste my time using them specifically as a study tool. IMO, it's more efficient to use Cliffs.

 

[fmlcat]

I know what you mean about CDP setting the answer choices up so that it is easy to eliminate. I thought the same thing when I was studying. But I wouldn't go off of that alone, because I found that sometimes, the outlier was the correct answer choice.

I honestly don't remember what the answer choices were like on my real DAT, but I probably wouldn't go off of eliminating unless you definitely can't distinguish between the angle sizes. The angle ranking section on the real DAT was also easier than on CDP.

 

[aqz]

Regardless of how it is on the real DAT, I'm sure you're going to have at the very least some problems with

A) 1-3-4-2
B) 4-2-1-3
C) 1-4-3-2
D) 4-3-1-2

Where you have either 4 or 1 as the first angle.

Those are safe and good for process of elimination, so why not? But don't use those other process of elimination things. The most I'd go for is where if you've noticed, angles that are about the same in degrees but differ in lengths (like one angle has two sides that are identical in length and the other has one longer side/one shorter side) often end up having the longer angles being the smaller ones. But still, just be cautious and go with your gut.

 

[IsaacYankem]

What 10-test edition of Crack is SdN recommended: Ace or Royal Flush?

 

[The Prologue]

All of thinkwell bio videos can be bought for like $3 on the iphone/ipad app.

 

[oceanangel4]

Regardless of how it is on the real DAT, I'm sure you're going to have at the very least some problems with

A) 1-3-4-2
B) 4-2-1-3
C) 1-4-3-2
D) 4-3-1-2

Where you have either 4 or 1 as the first angle.

Those are safe and good for process of elimination, so why not? But don't use those other process of elimination things. The most I'd go for is where if you've noticed, angles that are about the same in degrees but differ in lengths (like one angle has two sides that are identical in length and the other has one longer side/one shorter side) often end up having the longer angles being the smaller ones. But still, just be cautious and go with your gut.

What do you mean by "longer angle"? Do you mean the angle with the different leg lengths? Did you find this to be a pattern on the real DAT?

I'm having a lot of trouble judging angles that are oriented differently, especially angles that open towards the bottom (like an inverted 'V' shape) since I can't tilt my head enough to use the laptop/hill/chair method. Does anyone have any advice/strategies for those kinds of angles? Thanks!

 

[aqz]

What I mean is, when you see angles that extend their legs longer, sometimes you might be inclined to think that they're bigger than angles that have short legs. However, I frequently found the "longer angles" to be smaller than the "shorter angles". This wasn't always the case on the real DAT, but the point is to watch out for this trap. The only real comparison you can make between short and long angles is to gauge how far the angles each open at a certain point....meaning like for example....at 1 cm away from the center point of both of the angles, which angle is wider?