Crack DAT PAT scores vs. Real DAT scores

[Dental407]

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I was just wondering how people felt their scores with Crack DAT PAT compared with their real DAT scores? From what I have gathered, the real DAT cube counting sections does not have tricky figures like Crack and the hole punching is easier on the real thing. Any help or opinions you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I have been practicing and taking many tests, and I would like to estimate what my score will be... should I expect the same or to go higher or lower?

Also, if you used Achiever and Topscore, how did your scores compare to the real DAT?

Thanks for your help in advance! By the way, I searched past posts but I did not find too much advice except that the program is useful. Please help!

 

[RoseDoctor]

real DAT PAT is not competitive with CRACK DAT PAT. the real one is a lot harder! I always score 21-22 in crack even though the hole punch part is very different. I took my DAT yesterday and I score 17 in PAT which I can not believe it. Trust me I look at my score so many times to make sure this is really my PAT score. PAT was not my worry part, but it came to be my least score.
Don't get me wrong, the CRACK one is very good to make you ready to think in 3 dimension and practice your brain, but you should change your expectations from the real DAT PAT( which I didn't)
I wish you the best!

 

[fldnstrm]

I felt CDP was pretty spot on. It was more difficult than Kaplan and Topscore and compared pretty well to the actual DAT. The only thing different on the DAT was the hole punching. I felt the frawing were a little off, but they were still relatively easy.

 

[whawha]

I felt CDP was pretty spot on. It was more difficult than Kaplan and Topscore and compared pretty well to the actual DAT. The only thing different on the DAT was the hole punching. I felt the frawing were a little off, but they were still relatively easy.

What about angles and TFE compared to Crack DAT? Especially TFE, does the line-counting method work for most problems as it does in Crack DAT?

 

[fldnstrm]

I felt like the angles were the toughtest section on both the DAT and CDP. The angles on the DAT were very tough. As far as strategy for TFE I never used the counting method unless I got stuck on a problem. For me TFE wasn't any more difficult on the DAT than CDP.

 

[BTtheman777]

I just took a practice CDP exam and I felt that the hole punching was ridiculous. Is this how hard it is on the actual exam? Half Holes and weird folds?

 

[kitejunky27]

I agree with the first reply

I was getting 23s on CDP even got a 26

on the real DAT PAT i got a 19, pretty upset about that.

CDP focuses far too much on shapes and not sizes. Tee real PAT has alot more questions were there are multiple correct shapes but the sizing is off. Makes more of the test feel like sketchy judgement calls like angle ranking. I would love to be able to go over my test and see what happened.

Also the way hole punches are drawn is very different and AlLOT of the sections have ABCDE as choices instead of just ABCD which I feel like is a blaring mistake on the half of CDP

 

[fldnstrm]

I just took a practice CDP exam and I felt that the hole punching was ridiculous. Is this how hard it is on the actual exam? Half Holes and weird folds?

Try laying out a 4x4 grid and lay out your holes as you unfold the paper in your mind. For me this helped a ton.

 

[sfrice80]

I just took a practice CDP exam and I felt that the hole punching was ridiculous. Is this how hard it is on the actual exam? Half Holes and weird folds?

They arent that ridiculous at all with practice. You would be surprised how good you can get at them with more practice, I used to think the same thing and by the time I took my actual DAT, I would fly through that section. Yes, the actual DAT has crazy fold angles and half punches but like I said, with practice they become easy.

 

[sfrice80]

Yes the actual exam is very comparable to CDP and my score was slightly lower on the real DAT, when compared to my CDP practice scores but I think nerves played a role too. Most CDP practice tests I was ranging from 21-25 and I got a 21 on the real thing.

 

[dentist95757]

For keyholes, i thought the real dat was harder than cdp

for TFE, i thought they were about the same ( i always did well on this section tho)

for angles, they were about comparable (this is my worst section)

hole punching - cdp was much harder, so this was a piece of cake on the real dat

cube counting - real dat much much easier, no tricks and smaller blocks than cdp

pattern folding - cdp was slightly harder

I was getting around 18-21 on cdp and got a 21 on the real dat

achiever pat was much harder than anything i have ever encountered, especially the keyholes, tfe and pattern folding, but is good practice, albeit confidence shaking