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PAT Techniques?
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Use and keep practicing the Kaplan strategies...they are very effective in tackling the PAT.
The more practice you get, the easier it will be come to recognize what to look for in each section.
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I think the Barron's book is good for learning the techniques if you can get your hands on it. But not necessary.
The Kaplan has pretty good strategy except the cube counting - I didn't like the tally way instead I just wrote out the numbers on my page and counted them later. Therefore if you have Kaplan - use the techniques they tell you.
I think it's mainly practice and then going over your mistakes to see what you didn't get. The key is to understand where you went wrong. For example - my first test I realized in the Keyhole section I kept forgetting to check the top down direction so I made sure I did it in the future.
Good luck!
The Kaplan has pretty good strategy except the cube counting - I didn't like the tally way instead I just wrote out the numbers on my page and counted them later. Therefore if you have Kaplan - use the techniques they tell you.
I think it's mainly practice and then going over your mistakes to see what you didn't get. The key is to understand where you went wrong. For example - my first test I realized in the Keyhole section I kept forgetting to check the top down direction so I made sure I did it in the future.
Good luck!
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I agree with the above posters that the Kaplan methods work pretty well for the PAT. What worked especially well for me was imagining the 3 views of TFE as three sides of a cube. It just seemed to work well for me because the lines would come together. <--- that may not make sense until you try it
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Mos people's first instinct is to move right up to the monitor to judge the angles. I found that the further away you are, the easier it is to rank them. Also, make sure to practice on a computer and not just on paper.
I think someone had mention (think it was Jo07) that she flattens the cube answers and superimposes them on each other... or tries to...
any way- when I took the test, it actually kind of worked for me, especially with the squares!
any way- when I took the test, it actually kind of worked for me, especially with the squares!
