PAT 2023 / for 2024 entry forum

I found it sooo bad, how did you find it?

this was my 2nd time taking the pat. i applied last year and got rejected after the exam - i can tell you that the wait for the email is excruciating...
i need to get off the student room. it doesn't help at all and i just need to get on with my life now ahah

Were the physics written questions really hard to solve for any of us? I felt like I was way too short for time to even think of them

I’d be careful all of you as you might get reported. These are the rules:

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Guys, did you guys get a question booklet and an answer booklet? Who else wrote only in the answer booklet? Some people wrote their answers on the question booklet. I'm very confused now and slightly worried. Can someone please confirm?

At my test centre we got both a question and an answer booklet - I wrote all my answers in the latter. Think I remember reading on the front page that we should put all our working in the answer booklet, but I could be misremembering, and I also think things will be weird now that the test went fully analogue. I'd hope that markers would give credit for anything that's been scanned in - whatever sheet it was on.

Okay, this makes me feel a lot better. I was very worried before and literally forgot any instructions that was mentioned. Such a bizarre format for the test. Such an awful experience. Hopefully we all do well enough to bag an interview.