Tips on Test Day (especially on how to use the time during break and tutorial)

[hypemachine]

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I was just wondering, for those of you on the other side and onto greener pastures than the rest of us still studying, if you could use this thread to give us your tips for gameday. Especially things you know now that you wish you had known before going into the test.

For instance, does time start counting down during the tutorial? Are we allowed to write notes on whiteboard during the tutorial or during the 15-minute break? Etc.

 

[aznriptide859]

Times start for the next section right after the test before is finished/time's up. There is a 3-5 second "lag" delay between sections though, so it's not immediate.

Don't study your last few hour of the day before or during the day of - cramming facts will do nothing but jumble your memory.

 

[bimmer]

Once you sit down you can write on your white boards, at my center the boards did not erase which was annoying for me for the PAT section cause thats what a practiced with, anyways during the tutorial I set up the boards wrote down some random facts (trig stuff) and went from there. In terms of gameday, I had an afternoon test and I did everything I could to NOT study. I am usually the exact opposite, but I followed the advice from most people and took a walk, did other random things and just relaxed.

 

[hypemachine]

Once you sit down you can write on your white boards, at my center the boards did not erase which was annoying for me for the PAT section cause thats what a practiced with, anyways during the tutorial I set up the boards wrote down some random facts (trig stuff) and went from there. In terms of gameday, I had an afternoon test and I did everything I could to NOT study. I am usually the exact opposite, but I followed the advice from most people and took a walk, did other random things and just relaxed.

Hey do you know if time started counting down when you were on the tutorial? On CDPAT it goes down but for anyone who knows the answer, it would be REALLY valuable information. Especially if I can just stay paused on the tutorial to write down everything I need.

 

[aznriptide859]

Hey do you know if time started counting down when you were on the tutorial? On CDPAT it goes down but for anyone who knows the answer, it would be REALLY valuable information. Especially if I can just stay paused on the tutorial to write down everything I need.

Your 15 minutes counts down the instant you start the tutorial. For me, I finished the tutorial with 9 minutes to spare, and spent 5-6 minutes numbering my sheets for Process of Elimination strategies.