2 weeks till my dat:/

[reecij]

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So I am nervous an anxious about by test... this is round 3... Hopefully it will be a charm!!!! My last DAT was 3 years ago and now I'm back at it. My scores in
2008 were..
PAT 18
GQ 14
BIO 13
RC 13
GC 16
OC 14
I only used Kaplan Book & took Kaplan Class to Study...... I wanted to burn it at bond fire afterwards!!!

Awful I know... but I have wanted to be a dentist for so long and working at the CDC as a researcher is just not my passion.... BLAHHH pays the bills, kinda cool, but not my passion. I've done Chad's videos this time and i read through cliffs ap bio. My question to my fellow "dat takers" is when reading CLiffs do I need to focus on remembering facts on all the various protist and fungi. ex- Rhodophyta is Red algae that is a plantlike protist with accessory pigments called phycobilins and is multicellular? Am I going to deep?

My Achiever Score from Friday for the natural Sciences was
Bio 20
Gen 17
Orgo 14 🙁 I still have some memorization to do...

I felt like the first time I took the test I just knew general topics from the kaplan book. Like the pathway of air through or body nose-->phyarnx ->larynx etc..., or Mitosis. But now I don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time learning unnecessary info.... any feedback is greatly appreciated because I honestly don't remember a thing about my test in 2008 except that there was not a single question about Mitosis or Meiosis... or respiration...

 

[agb2782]

For Organic, make sure you are doing the questions alongside Chad's videos. They do a pretty good job of making sure that you actually understand the concept being presented as opposed to rote memorization.

Also, I'm sure you've realized this but meiosis/mitosis and cellular respiration/photosynthesis are topics tested extensively (relatively) on the biology, so don't think you'll get a pass there like last time.

Good luck!