Question about Angle Rankings!

[Lane138]

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Hey everybody,

It's two weeks before my exam and I'm only scoring 7-9 on angle rankings using Crack PAT. I just simply can't tell apart angles that are less than 6 degrees apart, and this really scares me. 😱 I've browsed through previous discussion threads about this, but since they're all 2 years and older, I thought I'd start one again. thanks for your help!!


1) If you've taken the DAT within past 6 months, are the angles still pixellated, like they've been drawn on Paint, or are they much smoother to see now? How are the screens?

2) Kaplan's advice is to find the biggest and smallest angles, and usually there's only one answer choice that matches that. Did this strategy help at all?

3) On Crack PAT, you can narrow down a choice just by looking at the answer choices. For example, if 4 appears last three out of four times, I would assume (usually correctly) that 4 was the largest angle. Same for the smallest angle. Is that how the answer choices appeared on the real exam?

4) Any tips on handling really small angles, especially ones where the two lines aren't the same length? Those really throw me off.


thanks again!!

 

[mcchuster]

My friend, i can tell you by the time you get to that section on the real test, your brain will be fried. I tried to tell them apart but i couldn't. They trick u. All those tricks like identify the largest and the smallest and find it on answer key on work till that point then you have those two angles that only differ by like 2 degree. God forbid, I could not tell them apart and just ended up picking at random (50%) chance. Good luck. I don't know how people do that section, cause I was about to cry on the real test because i couldn't tell them apart besides by guessing the last 2 angles.

 

[mcchuster]

The exam creator knows that you will know tricks therefore they give you 2 really obvious angles then they give you 2 angles that are not obvious at all and the answers differ only by those two angles.

 

[jonishere5]

I detailed a couple strategies http://predds.net/dat-pat-angle-ranking-technique also some advice I can give is to sit back in your seat, the closer you get to the computer screen the harder it is to distinguish the angles. This game also helps out with distinguishing angles. http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

Good Luck!

 

[UCLAzy]

I detailed a couple strategies http://predds.net/dat-pat-angle-ranking-technique also some advice I can give is to sit back in your seat, the closer you get to the computer screen the harder it is to distinguish the angles. This game also helps out with distinguishing angles. http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

Good Luck!

ha woodgears site is great. i discovered it 4 or 5 years ago and its just fun to try to get a high score =D i'm not sure how much it'll help you on the angle section though! i guess it cant hurt