PAT angles

[Impulse155]

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Looking through a DAT and I get to the PAT part. How do you guys tell the difference between a 45.2 degree angle and a 45.3 degree angle when its tilted, rotated, flipped, turned inside out, on the other side of the page and whatever else they can manage to do to the angle.
What tricks do you guys use? I have such a trouble with this section and I can almost get a 100% on the rest of the section.
Is it just practice? Are you able to trace the angles onto a seperate piece of paper so they are all next to eachother? Do you ask the teacher/proctor for help?

 

[nitrolegs]

Looking through a DAT and I get to the PAT part. How do you guys tell the difference between a 45.2 degree angle and a 45.3 degree angle when its tilted, rotated, flipped, turned inside out, on the other side of the page and whatever else they can manage to do to the angle.
What tricks do you guys use? I have such a trouble with this section and I can almost get a 100% on the rest of the section.
Is it just practice? Are you able to trace the angles onto a seperate piece of paper so they are all next to eachother? Do you ask the teacher/proctor for help?

this is how i approached angle rankings:
1. glance at the four angles and determine which is the smallest and largest, this will usually eliminate 1 or 2 answers.
2. now look at the remaining two angles and determine which is larger or smaller. again never stare at the angles too long, you lose perspective if you do.
3. after u have done that, you should arrive to your answer fairly quickly. the more you practice, the better and faster you'll get. and umm no, you can't ask the proctor for help lol

hope that helps.

 

[redchesus]

Do you ask the teacher/proctor for help?

lolwut?!

Have you tried the laptop method? Pretend the angles are laptops at profile views... it helps some people.

 

[pbure9]

this is how i approached angle rankings:
1. glance at the four angles and determine which is the smallest and largest, this will usually eliminate 1 or 2 answers.
2. now look at the remaining two angles and determine which is larger or smaller. again never stare at the angles too long, you lose perspective if you do.
3. after u have done that, you should arrive to your answer fairly quickly. the more you practice, the better and faster you'll get. and umm no, you can't ask the proctor for help lol

hope that helps.

this was basically my method as well.
Laptop method is cool. Basically what I used, pretending the angles were slopes on a ski run and the one that would be more dangerous would be the larger angle (larger decline) lol, yep thats how I mastered angles.
Also, go with your gut. Don't sit on it too long. Angles is where you buy time for the rest of the PAT