I know I made a mistake, but I have to take the DAT before july next year (because I registered for the DAT in august 2004) . I cannot start taking the prerequisites until summer 2005. Are there any books I could follow that would help me better or is the Kaplan enough? I have the Schaums' for bio that I am studying from and will be buying the Campbell pretty soon . Is there anything I shd buy for the Chemistry part or is the Kaplan enough ?

That's a bit like putting the cart before the horse. Good luck to you. Try Kaplan's Blue Book.

I know I made a mistake, but I have to take the DAT before july next year (because I registered for the DAT in august 2004) . I cannot start taking the prerequisites until summer 2005. Are there any books I could follow that would help me better or is the Kaplan enough? I have the Schaums' for bio that I am studying from and will be buying the Campbell pretty soon . Is there anything I shd buy for the Chemistry part or is the Kaplan enough ?


Unless you are exceptionally intelligent, I would strongly have to recommend to wait until you have at least taken Org Chem I. If you do try this, I would use Kaplan Blue book for General and Organic Chem and find someone that took great notes in Bio 101 and 102 and try to memorize those notes in addition to Kaplan. It is not impossible, but I decided to wait a extra year to have everything set in place. I say wait and just lose the money or try to postpone the DAT. Your scores probably will increase a couple of points if you wait as well. Good luck with your decision!

More than bio I am worried abt chemistry. I am thinking about cancelling and losing the money. But I am not sure. Would the Kaplan online or class course help? Is there any book to help me with Chemistry apart from the Kaplan blue book ( I have been studying from that for two months now and still find chemistry difficult ) ?

The kaplan class with the online resources would be only mildly helpful. The resources are intended to reinforce ideas and concepts already learned. Taking the course without the classes will not teach you enough.

It is well worth it to cancel your DAT. No harm, no foul. Take the pre reqs, study kaplan or princeton review, and do great the first time. Don't take it without the classes and run the risk of a poor preformance, it just adds more pressure to when you take the test your second time. Make it easy on yourself. Applying to dental school is an expensive procedure, canceling the test now and paying again is just a drop in the bucket.
In any case, good luck!!
little d

It is well worth it to cancel your DAT. No harm, no foul. Take the pre reqs, study kaplan or princeton review, and do great the first time. Don't take it without the classes and run the risk of a poor preformance, it just adds more pressure to when you take the test your second time. Make it easy on yourself. Applying to dental school is an expensive procedure, canceling the test now and paying again is just a drop in the bucket.
In any case, good luck!!
little d

Thank you.

Taking the dat before the prereq's is like taking biochem before your general chemistry classes don't do it unless you're a genius.