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I'll get to the thread title a little later on in the post lol...
So here is what I got:
Perceptual Ability: 22
Quantitative Reasoning: 18
Reading Comprehension: 19
Biology: 19
General Chemistry: 19
Organic Chemistry: 20
Total Science: 19
Academic Average: 19
Overall GPA: 3.59
Science GPA: about a 3.30
Biology/Gen. Chem./Orgo GPA: about 3.20
(Biology I- A, Biology II- B, General Chemistry- C+, General Chemistry II- A, General Chemistry II Lab- B, Organic I- B, Organic II- B, Organic II Lab- A.)
Major: Business Management (Entrepreneurship Track)
Work Experience: I have almost 8 years working experience at Publix Supermarkets.
Shadowing hours: 5 hours (lol I know this is bad, but its been hard with work and school. I put on my application that I am working to get 100+ hours of job shadowing experience)
Applying to: 17 schools currently, althought I am thinking about taking NYU off the list because of $$$ issues.
*** I was wondering if anyone could give me my chances of being accepted once I submit my application next week. Thanks in advance***
Now on to the Breakdown:
Ahhhh sweaty armpits, where to begin... First off, I hate being hot and sweaty; which is a problem for me since I live in humid Florida. So after reading numerous posts about freezing in their testing center I considered bringing a jacket or sweater but decided against it anyway. Since freezing sounded more palatable than burn up. I wore scrubs to my testing center, well, because they are comfortable and light.
As I walked into Center I noticed it was unusually hot. I knew it wasn't just me when another test taker commented on the temperature. I was told that the "testing room" would be a nice, controlled 74 degrees; after I heard that I was looking forward to getting in that room.
So I check in and they seat me in the room and the test begins. I was so nervous I didn't notice the heat the in testing room until I got to question #3 and sweat droplets where running down my head. It got worse and worse but I'll leave that to your imagination 😎
Biology- It is just as random as people say it is. Additionally I had quite a few conceptual questions that were tricky. I probably marked 15 of the 40 questions, but I am a slow test taker and didn't really have a chance to go back and review or change any answers. I thought I did way worse in this section than I actually did.
To study for this section I used KBB and AP Cliffs Bio. I took really good notes for each section and regularly read through them. DAT Destroyer helped a lot, even though I found it incredibly annoying. I went through that once and got like 60% right and worked a quarter of the way through it again and was getting about 80% right.
General Chemistry- For this I used the KBB, Chads and Destroyer. There was a good amount of conceptual questions and a good amount of numeric questions. In hindsight KBB was a waste for this, I would recommend Chad's videos. I started to work Destroyer for this section but in my opinion it was way too hard. I just did the quizzes on Chad's website over and over again.
I went into this thinking I would score at least a 22 or 23. When I took it there were a few "numeric" questions I got that I didn't know how to solve and had to try to work my way to the right answers. Obviously, that didn't work out so well and I sort of regret not doing more Destroyer problems.
Organic Chemistry- Ironically, this was the section I was most worried about. I watched all of Chad's videos and did a few Destroyer problems but that was it. The reactions I had were pretty basic and I just finished Orgo I in Fall and Orgo II in Spring. My Orgo I teacher was really, really good/hard (he constantly is on probation at my school for failing over 50% of his class); I owe most of my success in this section to him.
Perceptual Ability- I know most people don't like to hear this but I kind of was naturally good at most of these sections (minus TFE). I worked on the examples in KBB and then purchased Crack Dat PAT. Most of my scores in there were like 22, 21, although I did have an occasional 18 or 19. I thought the Keyholes on the real thing where way harder than the CDP, and I got really nervous after that section. I found TFE to be hard, but those are always hard for me. Angles were similar to CDP, although a little harder. I found hole punching to be very easy, I didn't use any of those T-charts at all. Pattern folding was decent too. Cube counting was wayyy easier than the CDP too.
***I took the 15 minute break. At this point I thought I had a 19 PAT and probably a 18 or possibly even lower on the TS. My mentality was it over and at this point I can just try to raise it with Reading and Math.***
Reading Comprehension- I didn't study much for this section other than the 2007 DAT and the 2009 DAT. I am an average reader and got a 590 on the Reading part of the SATs if that helps. I took my time on each passage and read the whole thing. I would write keywords and which paragraph they were in before starting to answer the questions. This helped me a lot to quickly find the answers to Search and Destroy type questions. I tried my best to only spend 20 minutes on each passage, but got to the last one with like 17 minutes remaining. I skipped reading that one and just used Search and Destroy. I am pretty confident if I could have used my other method on this section I would have scored higher but didn't have the time.
Quantitative Reasoning- Going into the test I fully expected this section to be my highest score and to raise my AA. I have always been a good math student. That being said the last time I took trigonometry was in high school (over 4 years ago) and the last actual math class I took was over 2 years ago (Calculus). I did Math Destroyer for this section and was consistantly getting 21s, 22s, 24s, etc. I did have two 17's or 18's but those were outliers in my opinion. The math was simpler than the Math Destroyer, but at this point I was burnt out and really sweaty and tired.
I took there survey and waited for my scores. Honestly I did better than I thought I did; I just really hope I did enough to get into Dental School. Hope this breakdown helps you future DAT'ers and thanks in advance for everyone's advice about my chances of being accepted. Much Love! 😍
Also feel free to ask me any questions!
So here is what I got:
Perceptual Ability: 22
Quantitative Reasoning: 18
Reading Comprehension: 19
Biology: 19
General Chemistry: 19
Organic Chemistry: 20
Total Science: 19
Academic Average: 19
Overall GPA: 3.59
Science GPA: about a 3.30
Biology/Gen. Chem./Orgo GPA: about 3.20
(Biology I- A, Biology II- B, General Chemistry- C+, General Chemistry II- A, General Chemistry II Lab- B, Organic I- B, Organic II- B, Organic II Lab- A.)
Major: Business Management (Entrepreneurship Track)
Work Experience: I have almost 8 years working experience at Publix Supermarkets.
Shadowing hours: 5 hours (lol I know this is bad, but its been hard with work and school. I put on my application that I am working to get 100+ hours of job shadowing experience)
Applying to: 17 schools currently, althought I am thinking about taking NYU off the list because of $$$ issues.
*** I was wondering if anyone could give me my chances of being accepted once I submit my application next week. Thanks in advance***
Now on to the Breakdown:
Ahhhh sweaty armpits, where to begin... First off, I hate being hot and sweaty; which is a problem for me since I live in humid Florida. So after reading numerous posts about freezing in their testing center I considered bringing a jacket or sweater but decided against it anyway. Since freezing sounded more palatable than burn up. I wore scrubs to my testing center, well, because they are comfortable and light.
As I walked into Center I noticed it was unusually hot. I knew it wasn't just me when another test taker commented on the temperature. I was told that the "testing room" would be a nice, controlled 74 degrees; after I heard that I was looking forward to getting in that room.
So I check in and they seat me in the room and the test begins. I was so nervous I didn't notice the heat the in testing room until I got to question #3 and sweat droplets where running down my head. It got worse and worse but I'll leave that to your imagination 😎
Biology- It is just as random as people say it is. Additionally I had quite a few conceptual questions that were tricky. I probably marked 15 of the 40 questions, but I am a slow test taker and didn't really have a chance to go back and review or change any answers. I thought I did way worse in this section than I actually did.
To study for this section I used KBB and AP Cliffs Bio. I took really good notes for each section and regularly read through them. DAT Destroyer helped a lot, even though I found it incredibly annoying. I went through that once and got like 60% right and worked a quarter of the way through it again and was getting about 80% right.
General Chemistry- For this I used the KBB, Chads and Destroyer. There was a good amount of conceptual questions and a good amount of numeric questions. In hindsight KBB was a waste for this, I would recommend Chad's videos. I started to work Destroyer for this section but in my opinion it was way too hard. I just did the quizzes on Chad's website over and over again.
I went into this thinking I would score at least a 22 or 23. When I took it there were a few "numeric" questions I got that I didn't know how to solve and had to try to work my way to the right answers. Obviously, that didn't work out so well and I sort of regret not doing more Destroyer problems.
Organic Chemistry- Ironically, this was the section I was most worried about. I watched all of Chad's videos and did a few Destroyer problems but that was it. The reactions I had were pretty basic and I just finished Orgo I in Fall and Orgo II in Spring. My Orgo I teacher was really, really good/hard (he constantly is on probation at my school for failing over 50% of his class); I owe most of my success in this section to him.
Perceptual Ability- I know most people don't like to hear this but I kind of was naturally good at most of these sections (minus TFE). I worked on the examples in KBB and then purchased Crack Dat PAT. Most of my scores in there were like 22, 21, although I did have an occasional 18 or 19. I thought the Keyholes on the real thing where way harder than the CDP, and I got really nervous after that section. I found TFE to be hard, but those are always hard for me. Angles were similar to CDP, although a little harder. I found hole punching to be very easy, I didn't use any of those T-charts at all. Pattern folding was decent too. Cube counting was wayyy easier than the CDP too.
***I took the 15 minute break. At this point I thought I had a 19 PAT and probably a 18 or possibly even lower on the TS. My mentality was it over and at this point I can just try to raise it with Reading and Math.***
Reading Comprehension- I didn't study much for this section other than the 2007 DAT and the 2009 DAT. I am an average reader and got a 590 on the Reading part of the SATs if that helps. I took my time on each passage and read the whole thing. I would write keywords and which paragraph they were in before starting to answer the questions. This helped me a lot to quickly find the answers to Search and Destroy type questions. I tried my best to only spend 20 minutes on each passage, but got to the last one with like 17 minutes remaining. I skipped reading that one and just used Search and Destroy. I am pretty confident if I could have used my other method on this section I would have scored higher but didn't have the time.
Quantitative Reasoning- Going into the test I fully expected this section to be my highest score and to raise my AA. I have always been a good math student. That being said the last time I took trigonometry was in high school (over 4 years ago) and the last actual math class I took was over 2 years ago (Calculus). I did Math Destroyer for this section and was consistantly getting 21s, 22s, 24s, etc. I did have two 17's or 18's but those were outliers in my opinion. The math was simpler than the Math Destroyer, but at this point I was burnt out and really sweaty and tired.
I took there survey and waited for my scores. Honestly I did better than I thought I did; I just really hope I did enough to get into Dental School. Hope this breakdown helps you future DAT'ers and thanks in advance for everyone's advice about my chances of being accepted. Much Love! 😍
Also feel free to ask me any questions!
