Hole Punching: Half-Cell Folds

[flying nimbus855]

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Originally posted in the wrong section:

What sup guys. A friend of mine is preparing for the DAT and he is using an online generator and came across half-cell folds. I've attached a picture to illustrate what i mean. These are folds that either crease at a half cell vertical/horizontal line or the edge of the fold falls on a half cell line. The red arrows are supposed to show what I'm talking about. Anyway, friend asked me if these will ever be encountered on the real DAT and i initially said no, as i never saw these types of folds but i figured i post on here to get more opinions before he writes and realizes i lied haha. thanks guys.

 

[I-hate-alginate]

I didn't encounter anything like that on my exam. The toughest they went was changing the size of the holes they punched.

 

[Ari Rezaei]

These totally can show up and are the harder hole punching problems students sometimes come across. It's important to note there are a lot of different versions of the DAT and your version may or may not have them. If you remember that all the holes have to be within the grid you draw, it gets a lot easier to figure out where things go. In this case, when you unfold from Fold 3 to Fold 2, you'll end up with a full hole on the right and a half hole on the left edge. It's a lot easier to see a picture in PAT, check out the attached image 😛

 

[DAT Destroyer]

Originally posted in the wrong section:

What sup guys. A friend of mine is preparing for the DAT and he is using an online generator and came across half-cell folds. I've attached a picture to illustrate what i mean. These are folds that either crease at a half cell vertical/horizontal line or the edge of the fold falls on a half cell line. The red arrows are supposed to show what I'm talking about. Anyway, friend asked me if these will ever be encountered on the real DAT and i initially said no, as i never saw these types of folds but i figured i post on here to get more opinions before he writes and realizes i lied haha. thanks guys.

Is he taking the Canadian or American DAT?

 

[FeralisExtremum]

I definitely encountered these on my DAT - be prepared for them! They can still be worked through using the line of symmetry method.