Hole Punching question..on CDP

[dentaldoc1515]

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Okay so I did my first CDP and got a 17..which is ehh. I ran out of time like usual and had to hurry at the end.
My question is, in the hole punching section they had multiple holes for one question and wacky folding.. I haven't seen to much of that before. Is this similar to the real DAT? Some are just ridiculous!!

Also for those of you who used CDP I noticed on some sections answer choice are only A-D...do you think that made a difference while you were studying compared to the read DAT? Being that the DAT has answer choice A-E...

Thanks for any help 🙂

 

[pbure9]

Okay so I did my first CDP and got a 17..which is ehh. I ran out of time like usual and had to hurry at the end.
My question is, in the hole punching section they had multiple holes for one question and wacky folding.. I haven't seen to much of that before. Is this similar to the real DAT? Some are just ridiculous!!

Also for those of you who used CDP I noticed on some sections answer choice are only A-D...do you think that made a difference while you were studying compared to the read DAT? Being that the DAT has answer choice A-E...

Thanks for any help 🙂

Don't worry about the 17. I got a 18 on my first CDP test. The first one is difficult since the CDP tests are harder than most others.
And yes, I had multiple holes on my hole punching section on the DAT
My advice would be, do all 10 tests, but space it out so that you are in the habit of doing PAT (take test 10, or redo test 1 a day or two before your actual dat)

 

[dmd87]

don't sweat the 17, but do get used to the difficulty, read the wicked sick pat tutorial if anything, that is really good at helping.

 

[FutureDent020]

The hole punching on CDP is a little harder than the real thing. You will get several funky foldings on the actual DAT. I practiced the whole punching the most because it's not hard, but can be time consuming. Like others have said, practice, practice, practice. Then once you get to the real thing, you will knock it out in under 9 minutes.
Cube counting will mess your total score up on CDP too. You will not see the illusions on the actual DAT. I think you will start to see those CDP #3 or #4

 

[dentaldoc1515]

Thanks for the advice!