If you have taken the DAT (Question about the PAT TFE, Paper Folding & Angles)

[carborn2]

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For the real PAT Top Front End:

For how many questions were you able to use line counting only to arrive at the correct answer.

For how many questions were you able to use line counting to eliminate answer choices.

Should one only visualize parts of the structure in order to eliminate answer choices.

For the real PAT folding paper:

What were the primary shapes that you had to fold as some of Barron's tests have a few peculiar ones.

What is up with the angles?

Why do people seem to have so much difficulty with them. Are they really that difficult if you just look at them quickly and move on.

 

[molar3]

hmm i cant answer your questions really
but what i do remmeber from the PAT is that angles were indeed hard/confusing as hell
cube counting was easier than crack dat pat, and hole punching was ALOT easier than crack dat pat,
pattern folding, tfe and keyholes were uncannily similar to cdp.

 

[amh137]

For angles, I wouldn't spend too much time on them because you won't have enough time for the rest of the sections. Try search the forums and look for angle techniques because I know there have been many posts about ways to look at the angles. You can always come back to them because most likely you will save time during the cube counting and hole punching since they are much easier than CDP like molar3 said. From what I remember for TFE though, line counting usually eliminated 1 or 2 of the possible answers and from there you just need try your best to visualize the object to get the right answer.

 

[jonishere5]

For the real PAT Top Front End:

For how many questions were you able to use line counting only to arrive at the correct answer.

For how many questions were you able to use line counting to eliminate answer choices.

Should one only visualize parts of the structure in order to eliminate answer choices.

For the real PAT folding paper:

What were the primary shapes that you had to fold as some of Barron's tests have a few peculiar ones.

What is up with the angles?

Why do people seem to have so much difficulty with them. Are they really that difficult if you just look at them quickly and move on.

For the angles section, angles on a computer screen are much harder than in a book, make sure you practice on a computer screen!

 

[Alanine]

I thought that the pattern folding on the actual DAT was a little bit easier than CDP. I remember on CDP there would always be like around 3-5 questions where I'd have noo idea how that folding happened, while on the actual DAT I think there were only 1 or 2 of that type.