Hope or Hopeless on my DAT score for dental school

[namvis]

I guys, I have question regarding my DAT score.

PAT; 22
QR:20
RC:14
Bio;22
Gchem; 23
Ochem;22

TS; 22
AA:20

Basically i messed up on Reading comprehension.
i am not sure if i can apply with this score, or should i retake?

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[magicdock]

How did you score that low? Is english not ur first language?

 

[y3nd0]

Let's all be nice here! Mistakes happen!

To OP: as far as I'm concerned, I've heard (and it is fact) that a lot of schools have a cut off for RC. I'm pretty sure that the cutoff is 17. And many schools also have a cutoff at 16. You're going to have to do the research yourself to see which schools these are (or wait for other SDNer's to tell you), but I'm pretty sure that your choices will be very limited.

You'll probably be hearing a lot of people telling you to retake (that is my advice as well).

 

[tjung789]

sorry to hear about RC. You need to retake. Can you do a breakdown on the other parts?

 

[namvis]

Yea;; English is not my first language;;;
Came to U.S at the age of 18.
GPA;3.5
Science GPA:3.4

well... thank you for the advise... but at this point. don't really know how to study Reading Comprehension..
Do you guys have any suggestion on how to study Reading Comprehension???


as far as the breakdown
PAT: i used Crack PAT.
QR: Math Destroyer.
RC: ... Crack DAT reading
Bio: KBB, Cliff's AP bio , DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.
Gchem: KBB, DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.
Ochem: KBB, DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.

 

[yko0584]

Yea;; English is not my first language;;;
Came to U.S at the age of 18.
GPA;3.5
Science GPA:3.4

well... thank you for the advise... but at this point. don't really know how to study Reading Comprehension..
Do you guys have any suggestion on how to study Reading Comprehension???


as far as the breakdown
PAT: i used Crack PAT.
QR: Math Destroyer.
RC: ... Crack DAT reading
Bio: KBB, Cliff's AP bio , DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.
Gchem: KBB, DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.
Ochem: KBB, DAT Destroyer, DAT BOOT CAMP, DAT Qvualt.

Yeah practice makes perfect, just find some practice reading tests and keep going at it and find a way that works for you to score the highest. You can't really study, just practice different ways to do it. But I suck in RC too lol so I don't really know, I hope I do well

 

[biomolecmed]

Don't worry about RC too much. You did well overall. Good job.

 

[hope_to_match]

i do think you will need to retake..

i would get my hands on as many practice RC as possible and would try different strategies then find the one that works and practice that strategy

 

[Combine33]

What I found useful for RC was reading published research articles.