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Hey guys can someone break down test day for me? Mine is on Monday :)
What do you guys recommend doing during the break? I heard its after the sciences and PAT?

also during the sciences is it a straight 90 questions? Is there an option to mark questions like in bootcamp to remember to come back to them later?

Also for the PAT are the questions jumbled like 1 angle ranking, then 1 pattern then 1 holepunch, or is it grouped together like all angle ranking at one time, all hole punch at one time etc.

Thanks!

Also do you guys think it would be a bad idea to take a 5 hour energy before the test? what about tea/coffee?

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Pee and eat during your break.

40 bio, 30 gc, 30 OC all back to back. You can mark and come back at the end of test.

PAT are all grouped into their sections. Keyhole, tfe, hole punch, angles, cubes, pattern.
 
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Try not to drink too much before and during your break, you risk the urge of peeing. If you're tired and feel better after drinking 5 hour energy, go ahead. It's all preference.
Eat a granola bar, stretch, walk around, swing your arms, swing your fists... break the screen... whatever floats your boat.
 
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Pee and eat during your break.

40 bio, 30 gc, 30 OC all back to back. You can mark and come back at the end of test.

PAT are all grouped into their sections. Keyhole, tfe, hole punch, angles, cubes, pattern.
So all of bio chem and ochem are taken at once? I thought u got like 40 min for bio then 30 min for the others
 
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Oh wow stressful. Must be difficult to

wow stressful. Must be difficult to go back and check. Is the engine similar to bootcamp or do you have to check one by one ?

You can mark the questions and at the end you can review the marked ones and skip between those. There is no number grid like bootcamp
 
You can mark the questions and at the end you can review the marked ones and skip between those. There is no number grid like bootcamp
By skip between those do you mean like if you mark 1, 10, 20, 30 you can go directly to each of the marked ones automatically, or do you still have to go to the end of the test?
 
By skip between those do you mean like if you mark 1, 10, 20, 30 you can go directly to each of the marked ones automatically, or do you still have to go to the end of the test?

You have to go through all 90 questions before you can go back and check your marked ones.

There is a back key if you want to just jump back a couple though.
 
Try not to drink too much before and during your break, you risk the urge of peeing. If you're tired and feel better after drinking 5 hour energy, go ahead. It's all preference.
Eat a granola bar, stretch, walk around, swing your arms, swing your fists... break the screen... whatever floats your boat.

And there was a simple calculator on the QR like that for Bootcamp? Did Prometric give you computer paper for the note-taking sheet with a marker?
 
And there was a simple calculator on the QR like that for Bootcamp? Did Prometric give you computer paper for the note-taking sheet with a marker?

You get a simple calculator that cannot compute keystrokes but rather only by mouse clicks. Prometric also gives you an expo marker and 2 pieces of white board paper. You can get 2 new sheets during your break but not really recommended during your exam because it takes a really long time...
 
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