By far this is my weakest area on the PAT and I've searched on SDN for posts on pattern folding but most of them were not helpful to me. May be it's just very difficult to explain this concept. I have a hard time especially with the shaded figures. Any advice? Thanks.
pattern folding anyone?
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this has gone from my most dreaded section to one of my favorite sections! i don't know why though.
some pointers:
whatever's shown - THAT is the outside - don't even think about folding it up towards you, because then the underside would be facing out, and you don't really know what that looks like!
you'll find that with the really crazy looking shapes - at least with CDP - oftentimes all of the choices except for the right one are actually not the main "crazy" piece of the cutout.
err... that might be all i have, you're right, it's hard to explain. i know you said you've looked at other threads, but the "wicked sick pat tutorial" thread was the one that totally transformed my pattern folding abilities. i've been getting 14/15 on the last few CDP tests. look it up!
edit: the pattern folding section in the wicked sick thread is i think somewhere in the middle of those 5 or so pages
some pointers:
whatever's shown - THAT is the outside - don't even think about folding it up towards you, because then the underside would be facing out, and you don't really know what that looks like!
you'll find that with the really crazy looking shapes - at least with CDP - oftentimes all of the choices except for the right one are actually not the main "crazy" piece of the cutout.
err... that might be all i have, you're right, it's hard to explain. i know you said you've looked at other threads, but the "wicked sick pat tutorial" thread was the one that totally transformed my pattern folding abilities. i've been getting 14/15 on the last few CDP tests. look it up!
edit: the pattern folding section in the wicked sick thread is i think somewhere in the middle of those 5 or so pages
I noticed on some of the CDP tests that there are in fact cases where two answers are correct because like the above poster said you can fold in such a way that the patterns you see are on the outside of the folded object or on the inside.
On the real DAT will you be asked questions where the correct answer is folded such that what you see is on the inside? Has anyone ever encountered the 2 possible answer thing I'm talking about (which im pretty sure happens a couple times in cdp) on a real DAT?
Thanks!
On the real DAT will you be asked questions where the correct answer is folded such that what you see is on the inside? Has anyone ever encountered the 2 possible answer thing I'm talking about (which im pretty sure happens a couple times in cdp) on a real DAT?
Thanks!
