QR kicking my butt. Help please

[Toothiemctooth]

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I have DAT Destroyer 2012 with Math Section, Kaplan, and have been using Chad's QR and Khan's Academy site. Also been doing practice NYS regents questions and QR is kicking my butt.

Any help suggestions on this topic?

As a poor student, I'm very limited in funds. I have enough $ to get one of TopScore, Achiever, or Math Destroyer (damn me for finding this forum after dropping a stack on Kaplan)

I'm fairly confident in my sciences, but PAT and QR are presenting difficulties. I can't break above a 19 on CDP (after 4 tests mostly due to running out of time). Please advise in your most honest of opinion for I'm open to all input. Thank you.

 

[DenTony11235]

I'd advise math destroyer. It pretty much gives an example of any kind of question you might get on the DAT. That way you can get a good assessment of what your weaknesses are and attack them using web resources.

See some more input though, that's the best I could come up with for you.

 

[Dent22519]

I second Math Destroyer. It will beat you up, but it gets the job done. At first I was averaging like a 13/14 on the section, but I started to average around 20/21 by the end. I took one Math Destroyer almost every day for like 3 weeks. First, I would go through each test untimed. Then I look at the answers and grade the test, but I save it to go over right and wrong answers the next day. The next day, I go over the previous day's test. After that, I take the next test and so on so forth. This took me about 3 weeks skipping every couple of days. I ended up getting a 20 on QR on the real DAT. And believe me, it was horrible and demoralizing and beat myself up on why I wasn't improving as fast as I wanted to. Then it just started to click and I started to get it and get it faster. Good luck!

 

[MedDevil]

The trick with QR is identifying the type of question you're looking at and then figuring out the answer from there based on similar examples you've worked previously. Destroyer does a good job of giving you a good mix of all the types of questions you'll see on the real thing. If you can get through that and figure out how to solve each category of QR problem, you'll have no trouble on the DAT.

 

[chikadee1129]

I don't have much advice for you on QR, but for PAT what helped me improve was doing one section everyday so I could familiarize myself with the rules. I used CDP so one day I would do Hole Punches #1, then #2 the next day and so on. It felt less overwhelming that way vs. sitting down and tackling a whole PAT test without much practice. Of course this depends on how much time you have. I started doing PAT sections back in November and was able to get through the individual sections I guess in mid December and then I started full tests.

Right now my CDP practice tests are around the 20s so maybe this could help you.

Also, for hole punches, watch the Line of Symmetry video posted on YouTube...it helps you figure out pretty much any hole punch. I don't think I've gotten lower than 13/15 on Hole Punches since.

For pattern folding, keyholes, TFE -- I don't really have methods I just practiced over and over again till it just clicked. I talk to myself as I work through these lol so I look pretty silly but whatever works, right?

Cubes are pretty easy but instead of using the tally method (B/c I would forget which cubes I had counted lol) I visually draw the shape as I count it. It takes me 5-7 minutes to do this section doing it this way and I don't lose track of what I've counted b/c I can compare what I drew to what's on the screen.

 

[biomolecmed]

Try new math Destroyer, then Kaplan and NYS Regents. It will be tough at first. However, problems have answers and if you can master them, you will be prepared for DAT. Good luck.

 

[rebelwithacause]

I think you can buy math destroyer for more math practice. Good luck!