PAT Becoming more different on recent exams?

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So lately, I have been reading on people's breakdown that the PAT is a lot harder than Crack Dat Pat now. Which kinda scares me because I think I am terrible at PAT.

Which sections seems harder to the recent test takers? (Beginning of June)
 
So lately, I have been reading on people's breakdown that the PAT is a lot harder than Crack Dat Pat now. Which kinda scares me because I think I am terrible at PAT.

Which sections seems harder to the recent test takers? (Beginning of June)

TFE is supposedly really hard. Get achiever. Supposedly though CDP is good for angles
 
I know I don't fall into your "recent taker" category, but my PAT section was out-of-this-world difficult when I took my exam last August. No lie, I was shaking and holding back tears. It was that bad. But hey, I guess everyone else did terribly on it, too, because my score was a 23.

I usually scored 23-24 on Crack PAT, so my score stayed the same, but I literally thought I had bombed this section. I was worried I'd have to retake the whole test because of it.

Keyholes, TFE, and hole punching were all much harder.
 
From my breakdown:

Again, questions were not difficult but I ran out of time. 90 q's in only 60 minutes is pretty grueling and leaves no time to double check answers. I have a habit of making random dumb errors so not having review time at the end really sucked. To prepare, I used Crack PAT. I did the first 5 tests untimed, getting a 21 on the very first one but used up 64 seconds per question. On the second I had the same score but was down to 45 seconds. I went below 40 seconds for the remaining tests and my score generally increased every time, and by test 5 the only questions I was missing were angle ranking. I also had a copy of Barron's DAT that contained 2 practice tests. While most of the book was riddled with errors, the PAT section was pretty useful and alone justified the purchase.

Be aware that the real deal is somewhat more difficult than Crack on most sections. Keyholes were subtle, and many looked like more than one answer would be correct. In TFE, I often had to visualize objects in 3D on the real thing instead of relying on line counting, which worked almost every time in Crack. Paper folding was comparable, except that I got this weird 1/3 fold on a question. Angles were maybe somewhat easier on the real thing, and cube counting was comparable. Pattern folding was more difficult, and several figures were very small and I had to glue my eyes to the screen to see certain subtleties. There were several obvious "experimental" questions that had faulty answer choices.

I was scoring 26-28 on tests 4-10 and generally had 5-10 min left to check my answers but on the real thing I ran out of time and got a 24. Not complaining though!
 
i scored a 20 pretty much on every CDP test and got a 21 on the real thing. I honestly thought it was a little easier than CDP. Especially cubes and angles.
 
I was in the same boat as glimmer. I felt like it was much harder than CDP and more like the difficult of Achiever (and even the hole punches were harder than both even though that was my best section coming into it). When I was halfway through the test, I had about 18 minutes left and was freaking out (like Glimmer)--crying, etc. During the break, I texted my husband to tell him that I was probably not going to dental school after the PAT. Luckily I got a 20 on it (and was relieved given what I thought I got when I took it), but my CDP tests were all between 20-25 so I could have done better.
 
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