MY DAT STORY ...a good one.

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kkumalap

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First off before I tell my story, praise the Lord, He was the one who strengthen me and gave me all the abilities to prepare for the DAT.
For all you Believers, pray and have faith in Him.

So here it goes....
I have been studying to defeat the monster for about 2 months (6-7 hours a day). I went over Kaplan 90% of the time and refered to Campbell, zumdahl, and solomon's for the sciences for the other 10%. My best advice is to focus your studies on kaplan, and when you encounter problems that you are not familiar with on achiever, topscore, or etc then you can refer to these textbooks. Also....DO NOT WORRY ABOUT SPECIFIC DETAILS! I was so worried about tiny details on g chem about raoult's law, disobeying rules of pv=nrt equations, etc etc.

So here are my scores:
AA: 24
TS: 26
Bio :23
Gchem: 28
Ochem: 28
PAT: 21
RC: 21
QR: 20

Toughest of them all I'd say Reading Comp. The answers are not verbatim (unlike topscore, kaplan, etc). I dunno how I got a 21 . The topics were finance, nervous system, ....and dunt remember haha.
Quantitative reasoning was not bad...dunno how I got a 20. I thought I did way better than that. Best way to prepare for this is kaplan I guess...AND KNOW UNIT CIRCLE!
Bio - It was not bad at all...a lot of genetics. No sea urchin or any of those weird ones. Only bone of the arm. DAT DESTROYER was really good for Bio and achiever was also on the money.
Chem - childsplay I say...way easier than topscore...kaplan's all you need.
Ochem - same as G chem. DAT DESTROYER made me DESTROY this section lol
PAT - bleh dunno wut to say...I'd say it is a lil harder than topscore. But easier than achiever. I was scoring 22-23 on topscore and 19-20 on achiever.

As for my practice scores....I was getting 21's on kaplan tests. And actually got a 14 on the first diagnostic haha ....so don't give up if youre doing bad on that.

Thanks for reading im super stoked right now and if you're in the L.A area...I am celebrating big time tomorrow so PM me if u wanna swing by! 😍
 
Bio - It was not bad at all...a lot of genetics. No sea urchin or any of those weird ones. Only bone of the arm. DAT DESTROYER was really good for Bio and achiever was also on the money.

do we need to know what are the bones of the arm?

and is Kaplan good enough for both Gchem and organic chem?
I think DAT destroyer is too hard for me and wondering if i really need to understand DAT destroyer. Maybe it teaches more than enough?
 
do we need to know what are the bones of the arm?

and is Kaplan good enough for both Gchem and organic chem?
I think DAT destroyer is too hard for me and wondering if i really need to understand DAT destroyer. Maybe it teaches more than enough?


Joon, you have two years to understand the destroyer. just do it. if you don't get 30's across the board (except maybe for RC), i will be shocked.

And way to go kumalap. those are some really SICK scores! Congrats!
 
kumalap,
thanks for the breakdown. You sound like a solid person, congratulations with those amazing scores!!! I hope you get in where ever you please.
 
Did you memorize Destroyer's bio, or did you just review it? I think I'm getting obsessed and trying to memorize EVERY single thing....🙁
 
Did you memorize Destroyer's bio, or did you just review it? I think I'm getting obsessed and trying to memorize EVERY single thing....🙁

Same thing here.. Im trying to remember everything... my brain is so overfull, Im starting to forget my childhood and replace it with facts i'll never need to know again....
 
what is bones in the arm question, I read about that question in several posts can someone please tell me what the question is all about?
 
bone of the arm question was ....
which one of these is not part of the forearm or sumtin like that.

Gluck to everyone, i hope yall destroy it.
 
19-21 on o chem, gchem, QR, and reading comp.
19 on PAT.
18 on Bio.

On kaplan I was getting 21-22 on natural sciences, 22 on PAT, 19 on RC, and 20-22 on QR.

As long as you're hitting 19-20 on kaplan, youll be fine. A buddy of mine was averaging just that and got a 24 on the actual thing.
 
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