The PAT really comes down to practice problems and approach. I believe anyone can do well on it.
- This post at the Student Doctor Network is a top-quality primer for studying for the PAT. I consider it essential and found it useful as a launching pad into practicing and getting a ‘feel’ for the section.
- The AceDAT blog has a great cube-counting method and some other cool tips for the DAT.
- Crack DAT PAT is a solid source of PAT problems. When studying I utilized little and often and studied them in 10 minute sprints broken up into sections. Some days one section, some days two. Whatever I felt like. I bought the five-test version and only used three of them and got a 22 on the PAT. Little and often.
Really that’s all. Try to imagine the objects in three dimensions and practice everyday in the 10 minute sprints. Eventually it will come together. It all ‘clicked’ for me after a few weeks and my score jumped significantly almost overnight.
It is normal, almost expected, that the time spent reviewing problems is more than the time spent taking them. After doing the problems in the 10 minute sprint I would take a few minute break, then go back and review and find exactly why I got an answer correct or incorrect, and why all the incorrect options were that way. Love the failures, they are necessary for success!
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