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Hello Everyone,
I have been reading a lot of threads on people having trouble with hole punching and recieving a lot of emails on how to make hole punching easy on the Crack DAT PAT and real DAT, where one can get a 100% on this section all the time. On the real DAT i got a 20 on PAT (was a little disappointed because I was scoring 21 and above on most of my PAT test: topscore, kaplan, crack pat). Today I even decided to take test 10 of my crack pat test because I promised myself I would and got a 22 (97.1%). I am not saying this to brag, but I am saying this to reassure you that I can help you all with sections on the PAT and help raise your scores. Today this thread is about hole punching because of the many emails that I had recieved asking for help so here:
For hole punching what I do is draw a tic tac toe grid on a sheet of paper ( 3 three lines parrallel horizonatally and 3 lines parrellel vertically but perpendicular to the horizontal lines). After drawing these I look at the problem and plug in X's in the tic tac toe grid where the wholes are to be. After this I go to the box before it and understand how the folding occurs and plug in more X's where the holes appear to be and erase some where holes do not occur and then go to the box before this and do the same thing. After I am done I compare my tic tac toe grid with X's representing where holes occur to the answer choices and see which one matches exactly. Look for the link I have attached to this, it explains it further. Now for questions one might ask:
Q)It seems like it takes a lot more time for one to do it this way, is it true?
A- No it does not, every crack pat test I have taking using this method I have completed this section in 5- 9 mins and got all of them right. Yes at first it will take time because one is just learning how to use the trick but with time and practice this section will become as easy as it has for me for you.
Q)I want to know if this method is better/worse than just looking and memorizing where the holes are?
A- I honestly believe that looking at it and trying to memorize where all the holes is actually more time consuming and stressful for one. Using this trick allows you to remember where all the holes appear without having to memorize.
Q) Is this the best method?
A- Honestly I do not know, all I know that it worked for me and helped me get the score I wanted in this section. There could be better methods which is less time consuming then this, but all I know is that this method helped gaurantee me a 100% in this section within a time limit that I was happy with.
Overall I wish you all the best of luck with your dat test, and I hope this thread was some help to those who have been struggling with the hole punching.
P.S. -- Please feel free to ask questions for more understanding
I have been reading a lot of threads on people having trouble with hole punching and recieving a lot of emails on how to make hole punching easy on the Crack DAT PAT and real DAT, where one can get a 100% on this section all the time. On the real DAT i got a 20 on PAT (was a little disappointed because I was scoring 21 and above on most of my PAT test: topscore, kaplan, crack pat). Today I even decided to take test 10 of my crack pat test because I promised myself I would and got a 22 (97.1%). I am not saying this to brag, but I am saying this to reassure you that I can help you all with sections on the PAT and help raise your scores. Today this thread is about hole punching because of the many emails that I had recieved asking for help so here:
For hole punching what I do is draw a tic tac toe grid on a sheet of paper ( 3 three lines parrallel horizonatally and 3 lines parrellel vertically but perpendicular to the horizontal lines). After drawing these I look at the problem and plug in X's in the tic tac toe grid where the wholes are to be. After this I go to the box before it and understand how the folding occurs and plug in more X's where the holes appear to be and erase some where holes do not occur and then go to the box before this and do the same thing. After I am done I compare my tic tac toe grid with X's representing where holes occur to the answer choices and see which one matches exactly. Look for the link I have attached to this, it explains it further. Now for questions one might ask:
Q)It seems like it takes a lot more time for one to do it this way, is it true?
A- No it does not, every crack pat test I have taking using this method I have completed this section in 5- 9 mins and got all of them right. Yes at first it will take time because one is just learning how to use the trick but with time and practice this section will become as easy as it has for me for you.
Q)I want to know if this method is better/worse than just looking and memorizing where the holes are?
A- I honestly believe that looking at it and trying to memorize where all the holes is actually more time consuming and stressful for one. Using this trick allows you to remember where all the holes appear without having to memorize.
Q) Is this the best method?
A- Honestly I do not know, all I know that it worked for me and helped me get the score I wanted in this section. There could be better methods which is less time consuming then this, but all I know is that this method helped gaurantee me a 100% in this section within a time limit that I was happy with.
Overall I wish you all the best of luck with your dat test, and I hope this thread was some help to those who have been struggling with the hole punching.
P.S. -- Please feel free to ask questions for more understanding