PAT Advise

[DGirl]

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Good evening everyone! I've been lurking this board for the last couple of weeks, and it is wonderful. I recently purchased the ACE edition of CDP, and I was wondering how people approached the TFE section? This was section was at first demoralizing, because I could not easily or quickly construct the 3D image in my head. So I changed strategies to one where I just look at the answer choices and try to eliminate the ones I can. This helps a lot when there is a unique landmark to focus on, such as a protrusion that 2 of the four answers don't have. Then of the remaining answers, I look to see where they are different, such as one answer choice may have a solid line where a dotted line should be, or perhaps no lines at all when there should be. But I keep hearing that a so called "line counting" strategy no longer works for the DAT. Is my strategy line counting? Or do I really have to try to imagine the figure in 3D to do well?

Thank you everyone!

 

[LetsGo2DSchool]

Welcome, you broke your cherry with your first posting!

Your approach to TFE is fine. That's pretty much what I do. I first try to visualize it and then look at answer choices to eliminate the impossible ones and then dig deeper on the details with the remaining feasible ones.

 

[DGirl]

Welcome, you broke your cherry with your first posting!

Your approach to TFE is fine. That's pretty much what I do. I first try to visualize it and then look at answer choices to eliminate the impossible ones and then dig deeper on the details with the remaining feasible ones.

Thank you for your reply! Some of the figures on CDP are easy to visualize, but others are more difficult. At least this is the way it is for me.

I do have another question on angle ranking. On CDP, the answer choices are usually grouped so that two of the angles always appear as the largest, and the other two as the smallest. For example:

1,2,3,4
1,2,4,3
2,1,3,4
1,2,4,3

As you can see, they group 3 and 4 as the largest and 1 and 2 as the smallest. This makes it a little easier to do. Does the real DAT tend to group them like this?

 

[LetsGo2DSchool]

Yes, the actual is grouped similar which would make sense since there usually will be at least two angles that are close to each other.

 

[Polk]

DGirl,
Thank you for posting your strategy.

LetsGo2DSchool,
You are rude and immature. It is wholly inappropriate for you to say such a thing to, presumably, a woman.

Welcome, you broke your cherry with your first posting!

 

[LetsGo2DSchool]

DGirl,
LetsGo2DSchool,
You are rude and immature. It is wholly inappropriate for you to say such a thing to, presumably, a woman.

Oh c'mon, I don't think DGirl minded. She probably thought it was funny as it was originally intended.

You need to lighten up bro. I would hate to be the patient of a stiff dentist.

 

[tmirchel]

LetsGo2DSchool,
You are rude and immature. It is wholly inappropriate for you to say such a thing to, presumably, a woman.[/QUOTE]

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