Please help with PAT section

[Dental407]

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Hello everyone,
I am enrolled in Kaplan's prep course and I was hoping that I can get some advice for the PAT section. I have read many discussions on this forum that Kaplan does not prepare you enough for the PAT section, so I was wondering if anyone has any advice on what materials to use. I have Topscore, Achiever and Barron's book, but is there anything else that I am missing? I have heard about the CRACK PAT DAT program, has that been helpful for people? I went onto their website today, but I was not sure if I should buy this or would package, anyone have suggestions? Any help especially with the keyholes, TFE and pattern folding would be especially great. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.

 

[Decan]

Hello everyone,
I am enrolled in Kaplan's prep course and I was hoping that I can get some advice for the PAT section. I have read many discussions on this forum that Kaplan does not prepare you enough for the PAT section, so I was wondering if anyone has any advice on what materials to use. I have Topscore, Achiever and Barron's book, but is there anything else that I am missing? I have heard about the CRACK PAT DAT program, has that been helpful for people? I went onto their website today, but I was not sure if I should buy this or would package, anyone have suggestions? Any help especially with the keyholes, TFE and pattern folding would be especially great. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.

If you have the money, buy Crack the PAT DAT. I have seen improvements in my scores over their practice tests (I went from getting no keyhole questions right to getting all 15 right). A word of caution though, it is more difficult than the actual DAT but the way I see it, PAT is all about practice and the more exposure you have to these problems, the faster you will be able to solve them. I've taken one achiever test and its PAT kicked my *** (I got a 16) and from what I hear around here, it is significantly harder than the real thing. Achiever does offers good solutions to their problems though.

Hope that helps....good luck!