Using MCAT books to study for DAT??

my friend let me borrow her Exam Krackers MACT Biology book and although the material does overlap quite a bit, there is some material tested on the DAT (i.e. plant bio) not tested on the MCAT, and some material tested on the MCAT (i.e. microbio) not tested on the DAT.

so my advice. go through a DAT book like kaplan, THEN go through exam krackers, your bio text, and anything else. to do well on bio you need to expose yourself to as many questions as possible so you learn your weaknesses. it won't take you very long to identify where you're weak and where you're strong.

i hope this was the advice you were looking for 🙂

idandps said:

Hi, I heard from some people that there are many overlapping materials between MCAT and DAT preparatory books, and that studying for relatively difficult test MCAT helped them excel in DAT. So my questions are

1) Is DAT material a subset of MCAT material? That is is all material covered by DAT also covered by MCAT?

2) Being a newb here, I don't know much about DAT and PAT. Are they both required by all dental schools? and is each subject test of each test out of 20 points?

Thanks in advance. 🙂

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Yo, Im in the same boat as you. I used to be pre-med and have a bunch of MCAT books. Unless you have ALOT of free time, don't substitute MCAT review books for DAT review books. Way more info needed for the MCAT.

MCAT examcrackers, Organic 1001 questions, was one of the best reviews i used for the ORGO section on the DAT, it has 1001 questions and breaks them down into sections (i.e. sterochemistry, aldehydes, carboxylic acid derivatives....) it is very good and gets a slim but detailed answer to every question. If you understand all of those questions you will do fine when it come test day.

PM me if you need more study tools.