Floating Cubes

[jingle bell]

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Hey guys! Sorry I couldn't find this thread to post back...however, there were in fact floating cubes on my test!!! It was very frustrating because I had never seen anything like that before...and of course since there are 3 questions per stack of cubes I had a difficult time with those questions! Hope this helps! Good luck!🙂

 

[Dentalicous1234]

Hey guys! Sorry I couldn't find this thread to post back...however, there were in fact floating cubes on my test!!! It was very frustrating because I had never seen anything like that before...and of course since there are 3 questions per stack of cubes I had a difficult time with those questions! Hope this helps! Good luck!🙂

so there's just a cube hanging out above the connected cube figure? I've never seen that either. Wouldn't you just figure out what the figure would be like w/o it and then the floater is probably like a 6 sided cube cuz if it's floating i woudl think it's not connected to anything else right? or was it connected on some sides?

 

[tinman831]

There's no such thing as a floating cube. There have been questions posted here in the past that were VERY tricky. Sort of like an optical illusion. Depending on which way you look at it, it could be floating, or it could just be the sides of other cubes.

 

[z3u2]

There's no such thing as a floating cube. There have been questions posted here in the past that were VERY tricky. Sort of like an optical illusion. Depending on which way you look at it, it could be floating, or it could just be the sides of other cubes.

yes

and if you read the instructions for each dAT sections (funny how many people don't)
there CANNOT be any floating cubes
every cube, if not at the ground floor, is assumed to be on top of another cube

 

[Baylor83]

There's no such thing as a floating cube. There have been questions posted here in the past that were VERY tricky. Sort of like an optical illusion. Depending on which way you look at it, it could be floating, or it could just be the sides of other cubes.

Definitely a result of optical illusion in my opinion.

 

[jingle bell]

I know it sounds strange...and I know what the directions say.
However, there was in fact a floating cube...not a result of an optical illusion. It was on the front of the stack....there was no cube underneath it....and it was on the 2nd cube up....there was a cube in front of it but that specific cube was one below the one i am talking about. Ok that made no sense...but it makes sense to me! I had seen "floating" cubes before while practicing but thought they were mistakes in the program. Maybe in the directions (and i don't have any right in front of me) they're just referring to in the back....there has to be a supporting cube even if you can't see it.

 

[phraud]

I know it sounds strange...and I know what the directions say.
However, there was in fact a floating cube...not a result of an optical illusion. It was on the front of the stack....there was no cube underneath it....and it was on the 2nd cube up....there was a cube in front of it but that specific cube was one below the one i am talking about. Ok that made no sense...but it makes sense to me! I had seen "floating" cubes before while practicing but thought they were mistakes in the program. Maybe in the directions (and i don't have any right in front of me) they're just referring to in the back....there has to be a supporting cube even if you can't see it.

I took my DAT today. I know what you are talking about. My first cube counting question totally caught me by surprise. It looked like a floating cube at first, but after a minute of staring at it, it just ended up being my eyes. I'm use to doing cube counting problems with the cubes facing slightly to the left. But on the actual DAT, they were facing the right. Since I was so use to having them face left, I think my eyes were inverting empty spaces, making them seem like a floating cube.

 

[denticus]

I took my DAT today. I know what you are talking about. My first cube counting question totally caught me by surprise. It looked like a floating cube at first, but after a minute of staring at it, it just ended up being my eyes. I'm use to doing cube counting problems with the cubes facing slightly to the left. But on the actual DAT, they were facing the right. Since I was so use to having them face left, I think my eyes were inverting empty spaces, making them seem like a floating cube.

How did you do on your exam?!! I hope it went well.🙂

 

[Saber tooth]

There's no such thing as a floating cube. There have been questions posted here in the past that were VERY tricky. Sort of like an optical illusion. Depending on which way you look at it, it could be floating, or it could just be the sides of other cubes.

yes

and if you read the instructions for each dAT sections (funny how many people don't)
there CANNOT be any floating cubes
every cube, if not at the ground floor, is assumed to be on top of another cube

For Quote one:
What examples where shown? Can you get a link to the Thread

For Quote two:
If the instructions are saying that no cube is floating then how to you go about the illusion if you do get a floating cube?

Thanks