PAT 22
QR 22
RC 26
BIO 24
CHEM 28
ORGO 29
TS 26
AA 26
Applied: 8
Interviews: 6
Dec 3 Acceptances: 4
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Materials Used
Kaplan White Book
DAT Destroyer
Math Destroyer
Organic Chemistry Odyssey
datqvault 90 day membership
Crack Dat PAT Ace Edition
Borrowed Kaplan from a friend
($320) http://www.orgoman.com/datdestroyer.html
($100) http://datqvault.com/
($120) https://pat.crackdat.com/order/browse_products.php
Sold everything but Crack Dat PAT to a friend for $200
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Studied for 12-15 hours a day for the 3 weeks leading up to my test date, which was the 3 weeks right after the end of the semester. In that semester, I had just taken Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Organic Chemistry II, so it was pretty fresh in my mind.
Kaplan has great review notes and is a solid starting point. By the time my 2 week cram session started, I had gone through the Kaplan review book once in its entirety. I would later refer back to this for certain topics. The strength of this review book is that it more or less picks out what is important for you. Which is not to say, however, that it covers everything that is fair game on the DAT.
I did all of the DAT Destroyer questions (excluding the Quantitative Reasoning, mainly because I didn't have time/wanted to focus on the sciences/majored in mathematics). I also did all of the Organic Chemistry Odyssey questions. I only had enough time for one run through on each, and I was scoring about ~70% correct on questions overall, which always came out to about a 19-22 if scored like the DAT is scored by percentiles. Doing all of these questions and understanding all the ones you got incorrect is IMO overkill for the DAT, as I felt like I was not doing well if I couldn't get 100% of the questions right. Then, when I took the actual DAT, the questions were way easier. Suffice it to say, this is great preparation for the Orgo, GenChem, and Bio sections.
The Organic Chemistry Odyssey may have been overkill as well, but I'll never know. If I had to do it again, I probably would have done it to ensure I knew my stuff. And I'm happy with the score I got. If time is even more of a crunch for you, I would skip one of the Organic sections from these 2 books.
Crack Dat PAT was essential to my PAT, though I wish I had more time to spend on it. I took the 10 pre-set tests and then took some more randomly generated ones. Then I focused on the sections I felt like I needed practice in. For me, it was cube counting and paper folding.
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Day 1-3
Review Kaplan, Notes.
Crack Dat PAT tests 1-4
Day 4
Gen Chem
Day 5
Gen Chem and PAT
Day 6
PAT
Day 7
ORGO
Day 8
ORGO and Gen Chem
Day 9
Gen Chem and Math
Day 10-12
Bio
Day 13
Orgo
Day 14
Reading
Day 15
Orgo
Day 16
Orgo and Start DAT qVault
Day 17-18
Bio/Orgo on DAT qVault
Day 19
Bio/Gen Chem/Orgo on DAT qVault
Day 20
Math on DAT qVault and PAT
Day 21
Test Day
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I spent very minimal time on Math because I was overconfident. I'm not happy with my QR score and in hindsight would have spent more time on it. On the PAT, I got to a point where I basically was not improving much with additional time spent on it, and so I focused my time on other things.
QR 22
RC 26
BIO 24
CHEM 28
ORGO 29
TS 26
AA 26
Applied: 8
Interviews: 6
Dec 3 Acceptances: 4
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Materials Used
Kaplan White Book
DAT Destroyer
Math Destroyer
Organic Chemistry Odyssey
datqvault 90 day membership
Crack Dat PAT Ace Edition
Borrowed Kaplan from a friend
($320) http://www.orgoman.com/datdestroyer.html
($100) http://datqvault.com/
($120) https://pat.crackdat.com/order/browse_products.php
Sold everything but Crack Dat PAT to a friend for $200
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Studied for 12-15 hours a day for the 3 weeks leading up to my test date, which was the 3 weeks right after the end of the semester. In that semester, I had just taken Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Organic Chemistry II, so it was pretty fresh in my mind.
Kaplan has great review notes and is a solid starting point. By the time my 2 week cram session started, I had gone through the Kaplan review book once in its entirety. I would later refer back to this for certain topics. The strength of this review book is that it more or less picks out what is important for you. Which is not to say, however, that it covers everything that is fair game on the DAT.
I did all of the DAT Destroyer questions (excluding the Quantitative Reasoning, mainly because I didn't have time/wanted to focus on the sciences/majored in mathematics). I also did all of the Organic Chemistry Odyssey questions. I only had enough time for one run through on each, and I was scoring about ~70% correct on questions overall, which always came out to about a 19-22 if scored like the DAT is scored by percentiles. Doing all of these questions and understanding all the ones you got incorrect is IMO overkill for the DAT, as I felt like I was not doing well if I couldn't get 100% of the questions right. Then, when I took the actual DAT, the questions were way easier. Suffice it to say, this is great preparation for the Orgo, GenChem, and Bio sections.
The Organic Chemistry Odyssey may have been overkill as well, but I'll never know. If I had to do it again, I probably would have done it to ensure I knew my stuff. And I'm happy with the score I got. If time is even more of a crunch for you, I would skip one of the Organic sections from these 2 books.
Crack Dat PAT was essential to my PAT, though I wish I had more time to spend on it. I took the 10 pre-set tests and then took some more randomly generated ones. Then I focused on the sections I felt like I needed practice in. For me, it was cube counting and paper folding.
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Day 1-3
Review Kaplan, Notes.
Crack Dat PAT tests 1-4
Day 4
Gen Chem
Day 5
Gen Chem and PAT
Day 6
PAT
Day 7
ORGO
Day 8
ORGO and Gen Chem
Day 9
Gen Chem and Math
Day 10-12
Bio
Day 13
Orgo
Day 14
Reading
Day 15
Orgo
Day 16
Orgo and Start DAT qVault
Day 17-18
Bio/Orgo on DAT qVault
Day 19
Bio/Gen Chem/Orgo on DAT qVault
Day 20
Math on DAT qVault and PAT
Day 21
Test Day
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I spent very minimal time on Math because I was overconfident. I'm not happy with my QR score and in hindsight would have spent more time on it. On the PAT, I got to a point where I basically was not improving much with additional time spent on it, and so I focused my time on other things.
