cube counting

[ivyred12]

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Hi everyone- I'm wondering how people typically set up their white boards for the DAT. I like to have all the letters written out, especially for PAT sections, as well as the squares for the line of symmetry hole punching technique and the tally charts for cube counting. Did you set these up during the tutorial?

 

[virtualmaster999]

From what I'm hearing lately (and what I experienced on my DAT), you will NOT be able to write during the tutorial. Don't fret though. You will finish the science with AT LEAST 10 minutes left...I think I had 15 minutes left. During this time, you can make your cube tally charts, and grids for hole punching.

Good luck!

 

[BYU4you]

I took the DAT two months ago and wrote during my tutorial no problem.

Cube counting I didn't make a chart I thought it wasted time I just counted as they came and did one section at a time.

Hole punching, well you can't do without a grid,

 

[gooperwooper]

for hole punching do you guys make a lot of grids??

 

[virtualmaster999]

for hole punching do you guys make a lot of grids??

just make 15..to be honest, some of the questions will most likely be very simplistic, and you might not even need to make a grid for those questions.

I guess it depends on the testing center you go to, but the best advice is to call you testing center to see what they say about writing during the tutorial. You might get lucky like @BYU4you , you may not! Regardless, you can still prepare. I even did the test drive two days before, and I got to make my practice grids and charts there so I knew exactly what to do during the exam.

 

[BYU4you]

Honestly you don't even need to ask.

For me once I sent in the testing room, they just assumed I was doing my test, it's not like they were standing over my shoulder watching me take my test.

The tutorial looks like the actual test too, so I just went ahead and made it.

They gave me a list of rules and that wasn't one so I didn't ask. And

 

[willwash]

for hole punching do you guys make a lot of grids??

I may be crazy here, but I always just did the hole punching in my head. The grids work, but they take too much time. Usually got 13-15/15 correct on BC and Crack the DAT generators and fairly certain performed similarly on the real thing.

 

[gooperwooper]

I may be crazy here, but I always just did the hole punching in my head. The grids work, but they take too much time. Usually got 13-15/15 correct on BC and Crack the DAT generators and fairly certain performed similarly on the real thing.

this is EXACTLY like me. I'm trying to "switch" to grids but so far I'm finding that I'm just way faster doign them in my head.

 

[ThunderSplash]

this is EXACTLY like me. I'm trying to "switch" to grids but so far I'm finding that I'm just way faster doign them in my head.

Do what you're faster at! I like counting cubes on my fingers, some people use charts. I personally love grids on hole punch because it eliminates having to back track and in my case, the grids cut my hole punch time in half. Do what you're comfortable with, you'll score highest that way.