{"id":11770,"date":"2016-09-18T23:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grockit.com\/blog\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2020-09-11T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:42:47","slug":"dat-pat-cube-counting-strategy-tallying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/dat\/dat-pat-cube-counting-strategy-tallying\/","title":{"rendered":"DAT PAT Cube Counting Strategy: Tallying"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Cube Counting section of the PAT on the DAT, you will be presented with several stacks of cubes. Each stack is constructed by\u00a0cementing together identical cubes. You are asked to imagine that the stack as a whole is painted on\u00a0all sides except for the bottom (on which the stack rests). You are then asked to determine how many\u00a0individual cubes have a particular number of sides painted with each figure accompanied by several\u00a0questions. Figures in the Cube Counting section often look like this example:
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\nFor this figure, the total number of sides painted for each cube in this stack is as follows:
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\nAs the diagram illustrates, you cannot neglect cubes that are not clearly visible, but you also can\u2019t\u00a0imagine cubes are present when they are not; requiring you to do so would make the questions unfair.\u00a0The general rule devised by the test makers is that the only hidden cubes are the ones necessary to\u00a0support other cubes. In this diagram, you should infer the presence of a hidden cube with one side\u00a0painted on the left because without such a cube the four-sided and two-sided cubes on top of it would\u00a0not be supported.
\nThe most useful strategy for this section is to make a tally of all the cubes that make up the figure\u00a0before even starting the corresponding questions. To do so, make a table on your note board with a\u00a0left column of 0\u20135. Then, methodically go over the stack and make a tally mark next to the correct\u00a0number of sides painted for each cube in the figure. After you have constructed the table, count the\u00a0total number of cubes in the figure and compare it to your total number of tally marks to ensure you\u00a0did not omit any cubes when tallying.
\nBesides allowing you to verify that you did not miss any cubes when counting, this strategy also saves\u00a0you a significant amount of time per figure. Rather than approaching each question separately by\u00a0repeatedly searching the figure for each type of cube being asked about, you instead are able to obtain\u00a0all the answers right away and use those to very quickly select the correct choice for each question\u00a0based on your tally and move right on to the next figure.
\nThe tally table for the example shown above would look something like this:
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\nThe entire figure has 22 cubes, and this does in fact correspond with the 22 tallies in the table.
\nOn Test Day, the Cube Counting section of the PAT will have 15 questions corresponding to five different figures\u00a0with 2\u20134 questions each. A good goal is to spend two minutes on each figure (including time spent\u00a0answering its approximately three questions) for a total of ten minutes for the entire subsection.
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In this Cube Counting section of the PAT on the DAT, you will be presented with several stacks of cubes. Each stack is constructed by\u00a0cementing together identical cubes. You are asked to imagine that the stack as a whole is painted on\u00a0all sides except for the bottom (on which the stack rests). You are then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36316,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions\/36316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}