Hole Punching and Cube Counting on PAT Section

[DMD_DREAMING]

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On the actual DAT, are these sections significantly harder than Barron's and Kaplan's practice tests? I know everyone says the angle discrimination is harder. I was curious to see if these particular two sections are hard to get 15 out of 15 on, which I have been getting on practice tests pretty regularly. Those are the my best two sections along with angle discrmination. Just trying to gauge myself.

 

[angeeeeee]

The angle ranking was a lot harder, but the other sections were all comparable (that is in comparison to the Kaplan practice tests)

 

[QuietGuy]

I found the angle ranking and pole punching sections to be much harder than on the practice tests.

 

[DMD_DREAMING]

The angle ranking was a lot harder, but the other sections were all comparable (that is in comparison to the Kaplan practice tests)

What exactly constitutes alot harder? I usually get around 12 or 13 right of out 15. Do you feel that scored dropped as much as down to 6 or 7 or only a couple of questions?

 

[luder98]

First off, PAT is a different spelling of PrAcTice in my opinion🙂

I find hole punching on the test harder than the practice tests. They have some different ways of folding that I had not seen. It's not very difficult but it does slow you down.

Angle Ranking: Similar to the tsp, except they throw in more close/similar angles. If you are able to do tsp's, you should be able to manage through. Thus, it's harder than the practice tests.

Folding: I find it much harder. Some of them I could not even figure out what it is. One of those looks like a stack of 10 or so eclipses. Yes, a stack of them. How do you fold it? I can't!