Serious help needed on angle ranking

[deleted678432]

Just took a PAT practice test and scored a 20 but I only had a 5/15 on angles.. On the generator I usually am getting ~11-13/15 but this test was much harder than any examples I've seen before. Does anybody have a resource, video, etc. that they'd strongly recommend? If I can get my angle up to a consistent 13 or so then I would score so much higher on these tests.

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[DenTalFluoride]

Some tricks I used:

The common rapid eye where you compare vertices based on "how cramped" it feels. Usually works best for angles less than 90. You'll get better with practice, but not always reliable.

Hill steepness where you pretend one side is a ground and another is a hill. The steepest hill is the largest. Very reliable but really only works best for angles facing the same direction.

If the other two don't really help, looking at the complement (90 degrees) or supplement (180) angles is a good back up. Not very time efficient since you have to mentally see it, or you can use your fingers. PAT Trainer is helpful here in visualizing the right angles.

For resources, keep doing the angle generators with the 30 second timer every night. Also, I would occasionally use the DAT Angle Ranking app by Bao Tran on the iphone. Consistent practice will do wonders for this section.

 

[Faefly]

Ari, has just updated the angle Generator with two modes Beginners mode and dat mode which is harder.

I wish he would update pattern, TFE and add a generator for keyholes.

 

[Hnl7]

You can download an angle ranking app for your iphone to use on the go. I'm not sure if it is available for android.
My strategy was to memorize what a 90 degree angle looked like and then compare everything to that. If pressed for time I would use rapid eye technique and move on quickly.

Sometimes it helps to use contacts if you have really poor vision. My glasses would warp the screen a bit and make it more difficult to tell the angle. Another thing to be aware of is astigmatism correction.

Good Luck!

 

[Faefly]

You can download an angle ranking app for your iphone to use on the go. I'm not sure if it is available for android.
My strategy was to memorize what a 90 degree angle looked like and then compare everything to that. If pressed for time I would use rapid eye technique and move on quickly.

Sometimes it helps to use contacts if you have really poor vision. My glasses would warp the screen a bit and make it more difficult to tell the angle. Another thing to be aware of is astigmatism correction.

Good Luck!

which app you mean?

 

[Hnl7]

which app you mean?

DAT Angle Ranking by Bao Tran/DAT-Angle by the same guy.
One of them was free but I paid for one (.99 I think?) to show appreciation.

I would use it to practice when I was stuck somewhere with nothing else to do. The same guy also has a hole punching app called DAT Hole Punching.

 

[Dentindebt]

I think BC is the best tool for this. Grab all the points from TFE, hole punching, cube counting, and pattern folding. I swear Keyhole and Angle Ranking are my ultimate downfall. I use the slide down the hill method for angle

 

[deleted678432]

Thanks everybody! I'll just put in more time practicing

 

[StudentDentistsRock]

I'm struggling with angles and TFE. I am also answering 5/15 (approximately). For TFE, I did all the quizzes with not much of an issue. However, when I came to the PAT tests, I feel like I am facing TFE problems I have never seen before (3/15 correct).

 

[FeralisExtremum]

I'm struggling with angles and TFE. I am also answering 5/15 (approximately). For TFE, I did all the quizzes with not much of an issue. However, when I came to the PAT tests, I feel like I am facing TFE problems I have never seen before (3/15 correct).

Which quizzes did you do vs which practice tests? TFE becomes a lot easier when you practice enough that it eventually 'clicks'.

 

[deleted678432]

I'm struggling with angles and TFE. I am also answering 5/15 (approximately). For TFE, I did all the quizzes with not much of an issue. However, when I came to the PAT tests, I feel like I am facing TFE problems I have never seen before (3/15 correct).

Make sure you watch the tutorials on BC for TFE. I watched them and after practice and cancelling out obvious wrong options, I get consistent 14-15/15.

 

[StudentDentistsRock]

Which quizzes did you do vs which practice tests? TFE becomes a lot easier when you practice enough that it eventually 'clicks'.

There are five 15 question quizzes in PAT academy for TFE (and keyhole). I did the TFE quizzes scoring an average of 11/15. However, when I moved onto PAT tests 8 and 9, I scored 3/15 and 5/15. I'm not using the line counting method. Also, the solutions for the TFE for these tests are different and less in-depth than those offered by the quiz solutions. So I don't really understand the solutions much either.

Make sure you watch the tutorials on BC for TFE. I watched them and after practice and cancelling out obvious wrong options, I get consistent 14-15/15.

I did watch the videos! They were indeed helpful. Maybe I should go back and watch them again. You make TFE sound so easy. My friend is also studying for the test and is also scoring 14/15. I haven't had my "click" moment yet.

 

[deleted678432]

Just found a new method for Angle ranking...
Probably really isnt "new", but I just got a 28/30 on the generator after a dazzling score of 5/15 just several days ago and a 16/30 yesterday...
It's all about cancelling out answers. Since the new generator is more like the DAT, the answer choices will likely have three options being the smallest, then three for the second smallest, etc. This makes it a lot harder to compare because it is tough to compare three angles at a time. What I've started to do is skim through the angles and find two that are obviously different (usually they tend to be pointing the same direction). Say, for example, angle one is noticeably larger than two. I then look through the answer choices and cancel out any choice that has 2>1. ((NOTE: I look at angles randomly here, I don't really follow the answer choices at this point..)) This usually gets at least one answer choice out of the way. This generally takes it down to the basic generator's format where you're only comparing two angles at a time. You can either go about this by attacking the answer choices and now choosing between (for example) 1 and four for the biggest, then cancelling out the answer choice that has four being bigger (if one was actually the bigger angle) and continuing along that route... OR, you can do the beginning method again, this time looking at, for example, angle two and four (assuming they are noticeably different and easily comparable) If angle two is bigger than four, you can now cancel out any option having 4>2. This usually will either bring you down to one answer choice, or you will now have an easy comparison to finish off the problem.

Overall, the point is to find the angles that are very different from eachother. This makes it so that you arent juggling between three angles, and tends to be easier for people who can't just use the "fast look", or for the options where the angles are pointing in every which way. The method is pretty unimaginative (as compared to the laptop or clock method) and is probably being used by everybody, but feel free to give this a shot and let's see if I can even help one person do better!