If you feel discouraged, hopeless, and depressed like i was, ii hope what you are about to read helps a little bit. I studied for DAT for two months, working part time for the first month and working full time for the last month. I got on SDN at work getting discouraged and terrified by the scores people got. I was getting lower than 20's in 95% of my practice exams including Achiever, Kaplan, Barron, and Topscore. I was literally getting 14's 15's and 16's on science and RC, 18's and 19's on PAT, and 20's on math. If you don't believe me you can read my old post. I set my goal in the beginning as 23. hahaha. Then after taking those exams I was thinking i'd be happy to get a 19 and if I get 20, i would be celebrating. Then a night before i took the exam, I lost all my confidence. i went back and reviewed my notes but I didn't have enough time to go through them all. Then I started praying that I get 17 so that I can actually apply somewhere. When i left my house on monday morning for the test, I was hoping that something in the testing room goes wrong so that I can push my test without a cost.
And then finally that moment came. I started praying again..God please don't let me suffer too much during the test. i might break down. Please end this quickly with no pain... don't care about the scores anymore. let the four hour pass in the speed of light. ....Then i finished the test... the score pops up on the screen. ............i looked at the scores..again and again.. made sure they were MY scores.....These are the scores i received.
QR 19 (90.8 percentile)
RC 18 (53 percentile)
Bio 24 (I'm at work and Idon't remember..)
GC 25
OC 25
TS 25 (99.9 percentile )
AA 22 (98.9 percentile )
I know there are people who scored waaaayyyy above me but these scores were WAAAYYYYY higher than I had expected for me. Guys, the real DAT isn't as bad as the practice exam. Don't lose your focus. Don't get discouraged by those practice test scores and the scores that other people get. YOU CAN DO WELL on the real thing!!!!!
Comments on science sections: Questions are NOT DEEP. For some of the questions, I was thinking..."are you kidding me??????... Is this all it's asking???" But now that I think about it, we only have 1 hour and 30 mins for the whole thing. Oh btw i finished TS in 60 mins. This has NEVER happened to me during practice exams.. I would always run out of time. The bio felt more like trivia. Some random stuff.. AGAIN the quetions that they ask for are NOT deep. Don't think too much. here are some studying materials i found useful for the test: mcat kaplan books (bio, gc, oc), practice questions and pictures/diagram from bio text book for plant bio (i tried to study as little as poss for this part )
My only hope was QR... but it hurt my score instead. hahaha I bought math destroyer but only got through half. maybe that's why. btw if anyone wants this book, let me know... its new..
RC. I'm super happy with my RC score. YEs. REally. I was hoping 17 at the most.
PAT: i think i got what I deserved. I couldn't spend much time on this and I was getting 18's and 19's during practice with achiever.
Bottom line is... HAVE CONFIDENCE and KEEP FOCUS!
And then finally that moment came. I started praying again..God please don't let me suffer too much during the test. i might break down. Please end this quickly with no pain... don't care about the scores anymore. let the four hour pass in the speed of light. ....Then i finished the test... the score pops up on the screen. ............i looked at the scores..again and again.. made sure they were MY scores.....These are the scores i received.
QR 19 (90.8 percentile)
RC 18 (53 percentile)
Bio 24 (I'm at work and Idon't remember..)
GC 25
OC 25
TS 25 (99.9 percentile )
AA 22 (98.9 percentile )
I know there are people who scored waaaayyyy above me but these scores were WAAAYYYYY higher than I had expected for me. Guys, the real DAT isn't as bad as the practice exam. Don't lose your focus. Don't get discouraged by those practice test scores and the scores that other people get. YOU CAN DO WELL on the real thing!!!!!
Comments on science sections: Questions are NOT DEEP. For some of the questions, I was thinking..."are you kidding me??????... Is this all it's asking???" But now that I think about it, we only have 1 hour and 30 mins for the whole thing. Oh btw i finished TS in 60 mins. This has NEVER happened to me during practice exams.. I would always run out of time. The bio felt more like trivia. Some random stuff.. AGAIN the quetions that they ask for are NOT deep. Don't think too much. here are some studying materials i found useful for the test: mcat kaplan books (bio, gc, oc), practice questions and pictures/diagram from bio text book for plant bio (i tried to study as little as poss for this part )
My only hope was QR... but it hurt my score instead. hahaha I bought math destroyer but only got through half. maybe that's why. btw if anyone wants this book, let me know... its new..
RC. I'm super happy with my RC score. YEs. REally. I was hoping 17 at the most.
PAT: i think i got what I deserved. I couldn't spend much time on this and I was getting 18's and 19's during practice with achiever.
Bottom line is... HAVE CONFIDENCE and KEEP FOCUS!