PAT ANGLES help please!!

[RR1515]

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Hello everyone!

I'm taking my DAT next Tuesday and am currently taking practice test after practice test and for the PAT section the part I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS struggle with is angles. I do well in every other section but my poor performance in angles brings my score down considerably.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me?
I've tried the hill method, laptop method, slide method (someone told me this.. you pretend a kid is going down the slide/angle), and the method where you look btwn angles very quickly. nothing has worked for me and I'm getting pretty nervous.

I have the DAT bootcamp and CDP software which both have very helpful angle generator programs but I'm not sure if it's helping! If anything I get very discouraged every time I get a wrong angle 🙁

Does anyone have a technique that works for them that I haven't mentioned??

Any help would be appreciated! This site has been a godsend for me whilst studying.

Thanks

 

[matty675]

I recommend daily practice with the rapid glance method. Be consistent and practice often. You will get the hang of it.

 

[discensdentibus]

Honestly I have to give credit to http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/ for helping me get better at eyeballing angles. I am going to go into a bit more detail as to how I think it helps whenever I get done with my DAT, but try to get really good at judging how close something may be relative to a 90 degree angle when trying to get exactly 90 degrees on the game. Also, the angle bisector part of the game gets you accustomed to trying to make two identical angles; this, once again, trains you to look for small discrepancies between two angles.

For angle ranking in particular, I think there is no one way that works best for every kind of problem you encounter. Find maybe 2-3 methods you are comfortable with and cycle between them if one doesn't seem to be fruitful for a particular angle.

Good luck

 

[Jophiel]

Although I never mastered it I used the rapid glance method. Sometimes I couldn't always figure out the difference between two angles but then I'd look at the answer choices and sometimes there would be only one that included the others that I was sure about. It also saves you a lot of time for the other PAT sections.
Keep at it!