Cube Counting and Paper Folding

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acne75iojno

He recommends drawing tic tac toe grids for paper folding and tables for cube counting during the instruction reading section

how much of each should you draw and how do you organize them? (know which question, find which question refers to each table/grid)?

For cube counting, you can draw 3 or 4 tables, depending on how many different cube-counting figures you get. Or, what I did, I drew 1 table then labeled it with the number of faces painted (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I left it blank until I got to the PAT section. I put tally marks in, and then when I got to a new figure, I would erase my previous tally marks (spit works well since you have a dry erase board with no actual eraser). This can speed up the process without having to draw a bunch of charts.

For the tic-tac-toe method, you can use the side of your erase board that has one pre-drawn grid on it. I think you can fit 2 or 3 tic-tac-toe diagrams onto it without having to erase. You should section it off according to the number of dots there are on the vertical and horizontal axis (4x4 or something). Then, much as in cube counting, you can erase it and use it again.

Don't get too hung up on pre-drawing everything during the introduction section. You may come to realize that you can start doing these diagrams and charts on-the-spot. Perhaps for the hole punching section, you may not need clear grids but rather know where to place dots as you are working the problem out. Everything becomes second nature with practice! 👍 Good luck!
 
Is it true that markers given now are not dry erase? So we wouldn't be able to erase our answers?
 
Is it true that markers given now are not dry erase? So we wouldn't be able to erase our answers?

I haven't heard of them giving permanent markers now. I still think they're dry erase. I think the original intention was to not have anyone erase the boards and instead get replacement boards during the exam, but a lot of SDNers last year reported that they had the ability to erase the boards by using their saliva. This helped them save time by not having to wait for test proctors to give them new boards.
 
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