PAT is complete disaster for me

[mardr2b]

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Please recommend how to study for PAT. I feel like I don't get it at all.

 

[Longcatislong]

CDP is excellent software to buy. You get a few instructional videos and up to ten practice tests. The videos are short, but I found them helpful, as I went into PAT studying knowing absolutely nothing about how the PAT worked and how to approach problems.

After each CDP problem set, make sure you go back and analyze each problem you did incorrectly. Watch the solution video, re-do the the problem until you see what you did wrong.

 

[Glimmer1991]

CDP is excellent software to buy. You get a few instructional videos and up to ten practice tests. The videos are short, but I found them helpful, as I went into PAT studying knowing absolutely nothing about how the PAT worked and how to approach problems.

After each CDP problem set, make sure you go back and analyze each problem you did incorrectly. Watch the solution video, re-do the the problem until you see what you did wrong.

I agree with this advice. Also, did you just start studying? I thought the PAT was impossible at first, especially the TFE section. It gets easier!!

 

[mcoope44]

I bought CDP which helped a lot. Just do the tests at first without a timer and go over every question when you're done. Eventually you'll start figuring out patterns and ways to do the problems really quickly. My first 5 tests I had no idea what I was doing and barely improved, but after that something clicked and I started to do well. Just keep practicing until it clicks and then practice some more until you've mastered it.

 

[mardr2b]

Yes I just started studying, but everyone says that CDP is too easy and that the DAT is harder. Should I get the achiever ?

 

[csafizadeh]

CDP did seem easier than the real test especially the holes punches and TFE. However my scores on CDP (20-22) were very similar to my DAT PAT score of a 22. I did use other resources however, including achiever, which I felt most accurately simulated the difficulty of the actual PAT section. The PAT section on the real DAT is hard, for me angle ranking, TFE, and hole punching (so many weird half folds) and I remember being angry with CDP for making the PAT section seem easier than it really was. However aside for achiever its probably the second best tool to study PAT imo

 

[IsaacYankem]

This seems to be a great starting point and guide to help with PAT: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=528643

 

[Paperclipz]

Thank you for posting this thread!

 

[amiresma]

In my experience, CDP was more than enough. You can check my Breakdown for the scores I was getting with that./

My first CDP was an 18. I got really scared, I went online and found some good methods, search youtube, there's some good instructional videos. and just keep practicing, i was doing a PAT test everyday in the last week and a half before my test.

My Final PAT score was a 26

 

[toyotasupra]

I don't think anything will really help you train for the angles, but the key here is to rock both the painted cube counting and front/side view parts. The other sections just take a really good guess and you will probably get a decent PAT score.... just don't waste too much time or you will not have enough time to get through the rest of the PAT.

 

[Shazzam]

I don't think anything will really help you train for the angles, but the key here is to rock both the painted cube counting and front/side view parts. The other sections just take a really good guess and you will probably get a decent PAT score.... just don't waste too much time or you will not have enough time to get through the rest of the PAT.

QFT. Angles are always going to be the biggest bitch ever.

 

[free99]

You're putting yourself at a huge disadvantage if you're not using "line of symmetry" for paper folding. That section should be 15/15, every single time. Check it out below. Practice it and master the method and I promise you'll see a spike in your PAT score from that alone.

As for the other sections, just figure out a method. For cube counting, I have a good memory for strings of numbers, so I move systematically through the object (usually starting in the rear and moving forward) in 5-6 long strings of numbers (ie, 1,2,4,5,2) then tally them on a pre-made grid. Angle ranking is just practice, there's no rock solid method I've found. Go with your gut, make a choice, then don't bother revisiting. TFE, keyhole, and paper folding take more innate skill, in my opinion, but can be learned with time. Practice a ton. CDPAT and qvault have decent PAT sections. Achiever is very solid as well, more difficult than the other two I mentioned, but not impossible by any stretch of the imagination.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ud0ZX0eEFA[/YOUTUBE]

 

[AM4EVA]

So i read that you recommend qvault for pat but isnt it loaded with mistakes?
And i believe its a fairly new.sec for them and i read alot of ppl complain about it

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[free99]

So i read that you recommend qvault for pat but isnt it loaded with mistakes?
And i believe its a fairly new.sec for them and i read alot of ppl complain about it

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I only did 3 tests and didn't bother to review them too heavily because they offer no explanations for incorrect answers. If you're feeling weak in PAT, maybe qvault isn't the best resource, but if you already have a solid foundation I think it's solid extra exposure. If you get something wrong, just take it with "a grain of salt"...