PAT section navigation

[Watergrizzly]

9 days until my personal "D-Day". One quick question regarding the PAT section. I've noticed posts where people skip to certain sections of the PAT and work to their strengths. I am curious if the navigation for the actual is the exact same as the bootcamp tests? Can you review the questions right away and jump around from there or no? Thank you for any input!

 

[gangazi]

no

 

[gangazi]

after you hit next on question 90, yes.

 

[Roy Williams]

9 days until my personal "D-Day". One quick question regarding the PAT section. I've noticed posts where people skip to certain sections of the PAT and work to their strengths. I am curious if the navigation for the actual is the exact same as the bootcamp tests? Can you review the questions right away and jump around from there or no? Thank you for any input!

Be careful if you want to skip around. I was plamining on it but found out the hard way that on the actual DAT, each question takes 1-2 seconds to load (unlike bootcamp where you can click as fast as you can to get somewhere). You could waste a lot of time skipping to a section you'd rather start at.

 

[SDDDAT]

I guess I got lucky with my testing center and the computers they had, the problems pretty much loaded just as fast as the ones on bootcamp. I was able to click the "next" button quickly to skip to the easy sections first (hole punch and cubes) and finish the pattern section so the "review" button would show up.

I'd strongly recommend jumping to the easy sections first. Not only does it save you time but it gets your brain working for the more challenging sections.