Here's my breakdown... it may not be like the 25's that all the other people on SDN post, but I'm satisfied with my scores.
PAT 21
QR 21
RC 21
BIO 21
GC 21
OC 19
TS 20
AA 21
I want to reiterate something that appears a lot on these posts- CDP, although is a very good preparation tool, is very different from what you will see on the DAT. The aperture on the DAT emphasizes spacing, depth, and scaling, rather than edges, points, and whole shapes.
Angles are slightly easier on the DAT.
Hole punching is slightly tougher on the DAT (still easy though)
Cube counting (always straight forward)
Pattern folding. More difficult on DAT. For this reason: A great deal of the CDP practice problems that do NOT have shading on the unfolded diagram, almost ALWAYS have symmetry. The problems on the DAT with no shading, often do NOT have symmetry. I thought this was a major distinction between CDP and the actual exam. But if you do all of CDP and score well, you should be OK with these problems, as you have trained your mind.
My PAT was the only section I was disappointed with, I was consistently getting 23's on CDP. And though I knew the DAT was slightly more difficult, I was caught off guard with some of the differences I listed above. I have a feeling I messed up an entire cube counting figure and got all of the questions for that figure wrong.
If you're having trouble with TFE, go to your colleges library (or find an architecture or engineering student) and grab a drafting and design textbook. There are methods to devise 3-D figures from 2-D diagrams. My father is an architect and he busted through TFE in a few minutes no problem. After looking at the methods in the books of doing this, I had it down too. Don't do the line sketching techniques shown in these books when you take a test, but do it a few times on paper, then imagine those lines on your head... worked for me. 15/15 on every CDP TFE
Destroyer for OC, GC, QR (of course, Destroyer OC is overkill)
Chad's Videos for OC, GC, QR
Cliffs and Kaplan for BIO
Campbell Biology for BIO (undergrad texts have great figures and illustrations that will stick in your brain if you study them hard enough)
A few schools agreed that I can fax a copy of my unofficial report to the office, to get my app moving a little quicker. So I'm going to do that now.
Peace out, Friends
PAT 21
QR 21
RC 21
BIO 21
GC 21
OC 19
TS 20
AA 21
I want to reiterate something that appears a lot on these posts- CDP, although is a very good preparation tool, is very different from what you will see on the DAT. The aperture on the DAT emphasizes spacing, depth, and scaling, rather than edges, points, and whole shapes.
Angles are slightly easier on the DAT.
Hole punching is slightly tougher on the DAT (still easy though)
Cube counting (always straight forward)
Pattern folding. More difficult on DAT. For this reason: A great deal of the CDP practice problems that do NOT have shading on the unfolded diagram, almost ALWAYS have symmetry. The problems on the DAT with no shading, often do NOT have symmetry. I thought this was a major distinction between CDP and the actual exam. But if you do all of CDP and score well, you should be OK with these problems, as you have trained your mind.
My PAT was the only section I was disappointed with, I was consistently getting 23's on CDP. And though I knew the DAT was slightly more difficult, I was caught off guard with some of the differences I listed above. I have a feeling I messed up an entire cube counting figure and got all of the questions for that figure wrong.
If you're having trouble with TFE, go to your colleges library (or find an architecture or engineering student) and grab a drafting and design textbook. There are methods to devise 3-D figures from 2-D diagrams. My father is an architect and he busted through TFE in a few minutes no problem. After looking at the methods in the books of doing this, I had it down too. Don't do the line sketching techniques shown in these books when you take a test, but do it a few times on paper, then imagine those lines on your head... worked for me. 15/15 on every CDP TFE
Destroyer for OC, GC, QR (of course, Destroyer OC is overkill)
Chad's Videos for OC, GC, QR
Cliffs and Kaplan for BIO
Campbell Biology for BIO (undergrad texts have great figures and illustrations that will stick in your brain if you study them hard enough)
A few schools agreed that I can fax a copy of my unofficial report to the office, to get my app moving a little quicker. So I'm going to do that now.
Peace out, Friends
