What's your best techniques for angle ranking?

[gooperwooper]

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I'm doing okay in this section, about 11-12/15 in practice tests. It's my worst section though so I would love to see some improvement.

I currently try two main ways for discerning the angle (besides just plain looking). #1 is the laptop technique and #2 I try to imagine angles as a gun. The techniques work great when the angles are roughly oriented the same way, but otherwise they're not great.

My two main problems are:
1. discerning angles with a large difference in orientation.
2. discerning angles with a large difference in angle length (both within the angles themselves and between the angles).

Anyone got some tips they'd like to share? 🙂

 

[Denevistas]

where you doing these tests from?

 

[gooperwooper]

bootcamp and kaplan, though I find bootcamp has a bigger variety in terms of difficulty (the first few bootcamp tests had easy angles the last few were killer).

 

[embrojam]

I like to try to picture which angle will eat the other angle up. I think you really just need to practice though, use the generators and get your eye in. Also try the woodgears game woodgears.ca/eyeball for more practice with these things

 

[Graffix]

On the real test i found that they lined up one of the sides on all of answer choices on majority of the questions (if not, very close). My best technique was the laptop one.
But I tried some other ones:
-imagining each as a pie slice and picking the biggest piece (got from another breakdown here)
-if theyre upside down imagining them as stalagmites and stalactites
-imagining them as mountain peaks and valleys.

If it helps on the test, I was allowed to hold my thumbs up to my eyes to make all the angles the same length. Also on the test you can flip between a question and the previous one pretty quickly if you want to flash the angles.

Ultimately though, I found that when I got worked up on problems and over thought the question I would get them wrong. So doing a glancing kind of strategy with the laptop method worked best for me.

 

[rbg2015]

I can't seem to find any previous threads that mention what exactly the "laptop" technique is. Can anyone explain that to me? Thanks!

 

[gooperwooper]

On the real test i found that they lined up one of the sides on all of answer choices on majority of the questions (if not, very close). My best technique was the laptop one.
But I tried some other ones:
-imagining each as a pie slice and picking the biggest piece (got from another breakdown here)
-if theyre upside down imagining them as stalagmites and stalactites
-imagining them as mountain peaks and valleys.

If it helps on the test, I was allowed to hold my thumbs up to my eyes to make all the angles the same length. Also on the test you can flip between a question and the previous one pretty quickly if you want to flash the angles.

Ultimately though, I found that when I got worked up on problems and over thought the question I would get them wrong. So doing a glancing kind of strategy with the laptop method worked best for me.

the pie one is working nicely 🙂 thanks!

 

[electrax]

I can't seem to find any previous threads that mention what exactly the "laptop" technique is. Can anyone explain that to me? Thanks!

Agreed - any pro tips about this?

 

[Graffix]

There are a couple variations of the laptop method. I like to think about the angle as a laptop on a table and the one with the "screen" farthest back will snag on me and will fall to the ground. Another way to think about it is to imagine each angle as a laptop with a really bright backlight. The angles further back with show more light into the air than smaller ones. There is also a simple way to think of each angle as just a laptop

 

[tyunup]

Thanks, that's helpful Graffix! I like the glare method

 

[Cranstons_mandible]

the pie one is working nicely 🙂 thanks!

Yay! The pie method is working for me too... I can't tell you how many hours I've devoted to angle ranking.