pattern folding reccomendation

[coheedutk]

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Pattern folding is kicking my ace for one. I've been searching sdn post for some answers to this, but it seems this topic is not as easy as tic tac toe lol. Can anyone give me some recommendations/advice/hope for this section? thanks and good luck to all!

 

[Impulse155]

Pattern folding is kicking my ace for one. I've been searching sdn post for some answers to this, but it seems this topic is not as easy as tic tac toe lol. Can anyone give me some recommendations/advice/hope for this section? thanks and good luck to all!

Did you try the grids?
I just heard of this last week (havent been ont his forum for a while), and I really liked them.

Basically take your piece of paper and make 15- 4x4 grids.
After that, every fold you do, color in the box that the fold would put the hole in.
Idk if its the same as tic tac toe though.

 

[coheedutk]

i was joking about the tic tac toe method lol, i use the grids and destroy hole punching every time, its pattern folding that I can't get my head around

 

[Wiredtrix]

Pattern folding for me wasn't that hard on the practice tests but was very difficult on my DAT. The easiest ones are where you just have to figure out the correct shape. This usually just involves finding the side that is the weirdest and matching it up with the weirdest side in the answers, until one matches. The difficult ones with all different shaded sides and various folds you just have to pick an answer and then unfold it in your head. If you do this you can just cancel out answers until you are left with the right one. The good thing is usually you can only see 3-5 sides in the answers. So just match those sides up with the diagram/ unfold it in your head, and usually one side will be oriented wrong/backwards except the right answer will hopefully work out right haha.

I hope that makes sense. Crack the PAT is the best practice but like I said my pattern folding was crazy on my DAT, my friend said that his was easy on his DAT. Good luck!

 

[Impulse155]

i was joking about the tic tac toe method lol, i use the grids and destroy hole punching every time, its pattern folding that I can't get my head around

Oh sorry, misread it 🙁
My first strategy is looking at the answers, find ones where the pieces that made it arent even in the pattern your folding.
After that its just visualization imo 🙁

 

[ScarletKnight24]

Pattern folding for me wasn't that hard on the practice tests but was very difficult on my DAT. The easiest ones are where you just have to figure out the correct shape. This usually just involves finding the side that is the weirdest and matching it up with the weirdest side in the answers, until one matches. The difficult ones with all different shaded sides and various folds you just have to pick an answer and then unfold it in your head. If you do this you can just cancel out answers until you are left with the right one. The good thing is usually you can only see 3-5 sides in the answers. So just match those sides up with the diagram/ unfold it in your head, and usually one side will be oriented wrong/backwards except the right answer will hopefully work out right haha.

I hope that makes sense. Crack the PAT is the best practice but like I said my pattern folding was crazy on my DAT, my friend said that his was easy on his DAT. Good luck!

I like when you say pattern folding on your DAT was hard when you got close to a perfect score on the PAT section.