Scratch paper and test center monitor...

[Eddie830]

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2 questions here regarding the actual test:

1) are we allowed to rip the scratch paper given to us?

2) are we allowed to touch the monitor?

 

[edkNARF]

You can not touch the monitor or hold up paper to the screen. My proctor was EXPLICITY clear about this.

 

[Eddie830]

🙁

 

[DrTacoElf]

can we rip up scratch paper for a hole punch model? How many pencils do you get and are they the standard yellow number 2?

 

[PERFECT3435]

you get 2 pencils and no i don't think you can rip it off and punch holes in them.

no offense to anyone, but you shouldn't be thinking of those things. besides, hole punching section is one of the easiest part of the whole DAT.

good luck to all taking the DAT soon.

 

[HBomb]

I was not told I could not touch the monitor. (I actually think they may tell you this because they don't want to clean up after us DAT takers)

I asked if I could tear the paper, and my proctor said I could but I would have to return every part of the paper. That was ok by me.

I was given as many pencils as I wanted. I think I took 6, though I knew that was more than enough.

Also, here is the link for the rules based on the ada.org website. And it is the only place so far where I've seen the rules written. Personally, I think that's what you have to go by, unless specifically instructed by your proctor. So my other point is that it may even behoove you to not ask specific questions to the proctor and just go with the rules of ADA. I know that's kind of shady, but if proctors are specifically telling you something and it's not consistent across the board among test takers, then why should any one of us ask for any additional rules they may impose on us? IMO, the only rules are the ones here on the website. Let me know if you disagree. I'd like to hear all the opinions.

http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/testing/dat/regulations.asp

 

[PERFECT3435]

congrats on getting the DAT behind you Hbomb.

hope it went well for ya.

 

[edkNARF]

I didn't do use paper up against the screen because my proctor told me not to, but I don't think it would not have made a difference on the PAT. The time goes by VERY quickly, and you will need to get through the angles very quickly. You will waste your time comparing angles with paper. I found pattern folding and apetures to be the hardest and most time consuming and I barely finished in time. I don't think I would have finished in time I would have tried to use a piece of paper on the angles.

 

[The Musketeer]

You can not touch the monitor or hold up paper to the screen. My proctor was EXPLICITY clear about this.

Ooopps! I guess I have violated this rule (or that I didn't hear the Proctor mention it), but I put my hands, expecially fingerprints, on the monitor so many times during the PAT section that the fingerprints actually obscured the latter questions! 😛

 

[edkNARF]

Ooopps! I guess I have violated this rule (or that I didn't hear the Proctor mention it), but I put my hands, expecially fingerprints, on the monitor so many times during the PAT section that the fingerprints actually obscured the latter questions! 😛

Our proctors were very different. I had to go clean my fingers off after fingerprinting then have them inspected before I entered the testing center. She didn't want me to smudge anything.

 

[trypmo]

You were fingerprinted? Yikes; I was only photographed.

I took mine at a Prometric testing center (formerly Sylvan; Prometric bought out their testing division). What about y'all?

 

[drat]

Yup, ditto...Only photographed. Didn't look so cute that day.

 

[edkNARF]

They just took a right thumbprint. I didn't get my picture taken though.

 

[onetoothleft]

I had both fingerprint and picture.

I had like 4 minutes left over in the PAT and I took the time to fold paper and check my angle answers, which by the way takes a LOT of time to do . . . not sure if it is worth doing unless you have excess time. They let me fold the paper all i wanted and touch the screen though. I think my proctor was pretty easy going. Although I was only allowed one 11x17 inch piece of yellow paper folded down the middle at a time. I had to hold the paper in the air and the proctor would come and exchange it for another.

Did anyone else have headphones at their cubicle. . . I wonder what they were for, I didn't use them.

be careful after the PAT section, I clicked the box and accidentally forfeited by 15 minute break 😡

 

[edkNARF]

The headphones were for the computerized TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). It is also administered by ProMetric.