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I just want to share my DAT experience on this forum. Took mine three days ago on May 8th, 2009...
I remember someone asking about whether scratch papers are given. They gave me two white boards and two dry eraser markers and a eraser that looks EXACTLY like the mouse...
I kept trying to click on the eraser, or erase things with my mouse... so make sure to distinguish between your eraser and your mouse...
For the PAT section...
I went through KAPLAN PAT and did pretty well on it, and expected to see similar looking problems on the real DAT, but it turned out that some sections were a lot harder than the KAPLAN one, specifically the angle discrimination and hole punches...
I've seen problems with punches halfway between two sections where the holes would normally be on the other practice exams... Weird stuff like that... For angle discrimination, literally, you couldn't tell one angle from another, and I remember seeing angles that are obviously different looking in the KAPLAN practice exams...
So I guess my conclusion is that some sections of the PAT will be a lot harder if you're just using KAPLAn as your source... I'm sure a lot of you guys are using Crack DAT PAT, which I've never used... maybe that's why those sections were so hard?
I remember someone asking about whether scratch papers are given. They gave me two white boards and two dry eraser markers and a eraser that looks EXACTLY like the mouse...
I kept trying to click on the eraser, or erase things with my mouse... so make sure to distinguish between your eraser and your mouse...
For the PAT section...
I went through KAPLAN PAT and did pretty well on it, and expected to see similar looking problems on the real DAT, but it turned out that some sections were a lot harder than the KAPLAN one, specifically the angle discrimination and hole punches...
I've seen problems with punches halfway between two sections where the holes would normally be on the other practice exams... Weird stuff like that... For angle discrimination, literally, you couldn't tell one angle from another, and I remember seeing angles that are obviously different looking in the KAPLAN practice exams...
So I guess my conclusion is that some sections of the PAT will be a lot harder if you're just using KAPLAn as your source... I'm sure a lot of you guys are using Crack DAT PAT, which I've never used... maybe that's why those sections were so hard?
