Reply To: Section D?

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

Zach,

A lot of people struggle because of the left brain-right brain thing, but a lot that don’t sometimes get a bit lax on the graphic part by making liitle drafting errors. Make sure to stay very precise and don’t get cute trying to tie your contours back artfully (we can’t help it, we are designers). They don’t give you a lot of room to accomplish the solution, so if you add any flare it will probably leave you not enough room somewhere else and you might not notice that your slope is too steep or otherwise goes against the criteria. … when that happens late on a timed test you don’t have time to start over re-drafting it correctly.

There are no points added or subtracted when you make it pretty, so avoid the temptation because it can displace area that you may wind up having to use.The tests that I took were generally crammed into the space so there was very little room on the page for graphic flexibility.

Also, relax when you read the directions so you don’t misunderstand. Go back and read them again after you start just to make the connection between what you are doing and where you are going with it. Sometimes the directions are much clearer once you are emersed in the problem than beforehand.