Offering PAT help

[medicine 17]

Hi all,

I’ve taken the DAT 3 times and scored 95, 99, and 100 percentile on the PAT section. I’d like to help those who might be struggling with this section with tips that have helped me. PM me if you need any help. Thanks :)

[cleanup 433]

Post them here?

[medicine 17]

On 8/16/2019 at 5:39 PM, cleanup said:

Post them here?

Sure!

To clarify, my help is all free. I'm just trying to help those who might need help with this section of the exam.

[Chaxon 17]

Which resources did you use and how much did you study? And are you naturally good at visualizing things in your head?

Its cool you got such high scores congrats.

[medicine 17]

Hey, 

I used DAT Crack the DAT and DAT bootcamp <--from people's recent feedback and myself, this doesn't really compare to the new CAD DAT exams. Keyholes were trickier on the real exam compared to the other sections (I purposely left this section till the end on the exam day so that it doesn't trip me out on the first part and I spend more than 10 minutes on the 15 Qs). My trick that really worked during the exam was to figure out what section of PAT I'm most comfortable with. For me, I was pretty good at hole punching and cube counting, so I started the exam on the hole punching section, did cube counting, pattern folding, angles, TFE and left the keyholes to the end so that if I ran out of time, I'd be guessing on my worst performed section. Just be careful with the question numbers if you start in the middle sections like how I did as it’s easy to bubble in the wrong question. Practice as much as you can and see what section you're good at and see if u can save time. You have to do 15 questions in 10 minutes, and some sections do need more time than this. So, if you can do certain sections under 10 minutes, you can use the spare minutes towards the sections that you struggle with or need more time on. Please let me know if I can help you with anything.