PAT angle problems

[ttran]

At first I thought these types of problems are piece of cake but they actually are not. I did several practice problems on Barron's book and some of them are kinda tricky in the sense that angles are look so much the same which you can't tell by your bare eyes which is smaller and which is bigger. What I did was to use the process of elimination and gave my best shot for the answer. There are particularly two or three problems which after I got my answers I asked for the second and third opinion and they both agreed with me on the arrangement. It turned out to be wrong. I was mad because it is stupid to lose point for such problems on the real test. What I did was to measure the angles to prove whether I am right or the answer in the book is right? It turned out that my answer was right. So my question is is there any similar problem like that on the test? and I am not there to prove yourself so I just lose the point for being right. I hope there won't be similar problem on the test. If there is, I guess I just try to make a luckly guess. This really worry me. Please advise

 

[HBomb]

Angle ranking give everyone trouble. From most practice material I've seen (Kaplan and Top Score), the actual DAT is harder than the practice stuff, and the practice stuff, some of it has typos. On the actual DAT, you'll just have to assume that there is exactly one right answer choice. You don't have time to go try proving anything wrong...that is, you don't want to try to prove the testmakers wrong on the actual DAT because you don't have time to. So let me make this point: on the actual DAT, you can't afford to get bogged down by any one question, especially not angle ranking. So if you're not sure, make your best guess, mark the question, and move on.

 

[BigRed12]

My suggestion for the angles portion of the test is do not be fooled by thinking an angle is larger just because it has longer arms, make sure to focus where the angle starts.