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Hey Guys! Just took my DAT this morning and wanted to let you all know what I got. Nothing amazing but I'm proud. Forgot to mention that this is my second time taking the DAT
First time:
PAT: 16 (31.2%)
QR: 18 (86.6%)
RC: 17 (35.7%)
BIO: 16 (41%)
GC: 18 (68.4%)
OC: 19 (75.7%)
TS: 18 (70.2%)
AA: 18 (72.5%)
2nd time
PAT: 20 (79%)
QR: 16 (63.5%)
RC: 19 (52.2%)
BIO: 19 (76.6%)
GC: 20 (79.8%)
OC: 21 (85.7%)
TS: 20 (85.2%)
AA: 19 (77.6%)
Overall GPA: 3.2 and SciGPA: 3.1. I'll be doing Midwestern's MA program this upcoming fall. What do you guys think? From what I read, the low QR score won't be too big of a deal as it seems like its the least important score, but I would like confirmation on this haha. GPA shows a gradual upward trend but it's still low so that's why I'm doing the Master program. I'll post a breakdown later.
EDIT: here's my breakdown.
Study materials used: Destroyer, Kaplan subject tests, OAT sample test, 2007 sample DAT, Topscore, Crack DAT PAT, AP cliffs bio, AP barrons bio, Bangitty's bio Notes, Alan's bio notes, Chad's Videos and quizzes
Bio: Oh god this was tough. I felt like half the material that I studied for using Cliff's wasn't even tested on. I spent quite a bit of time studying up for cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and the dreaded taxonomy questions but I didn't get a single questions on any of those. Damn. And it is true about the SDN community says about the bio section being randomn. The majority of my questions were based on developmental biology, so i had quite a bit of questions regarding gastrulation and germ layers. I had a lot of physio-related questions as well. I used AP barron's, AP cliffs, Destroyer and Kaplan BB for this section
GC: Same as everybody else who studies for the DAT. CHAD and DAT destroyer ftw! I want to say that 90% of my questions were based on concepts rather than calculations. Know how to find a bronstead lowery base and acid as well as a lewis acid/base. I watched Chad's videos on my weak areas 2-3 days before my actual test bc I knew i was weak in the concepts. Didn't get a single acid/ base ranking question.
OC: Chad's videos and Destroyer just like Gchem. I had a couple of questions regarding EAS and 1 question on proton NMR (very basic).
PAT: I only used CDP and thought it was worth my money. But oh god the keyholes were difficult in the sense that the real test relied more on proportions than CDP. IMO, the keyholes were the hardest part of the PAT and i was gettting 14/15 or 15/15 on CDP. the TFE section was not too bad and was on par to CDP. Angle ranking i found to be a bit easier than CDP but barely. Hole punches and Cube counting were a lot easier. pattern folding i also found to be on par with CDP. Practice is key! On my first CDP test, i got a 17 and on my last practice test i capped out at 22.
QR: I suck a math and always will. Lots of word problems. Math destroyer is really all you need. I stopped doing math for like a month and that was my mistake. Before that, i was doing one math destroyer test a week and i thought i was getting the hang of it. I should've continued that but i was focusing on everything else because I heard QR was valued the least on the DAT
RC: the only practice that I had for this section was topscore. I purely used Search and Destroy. I tried the Kaplan "road mapping" technique but found that it toook wayyyyyyyy too much time. The real thing has inference and tone questions as opposed to topscore, which had none. I found the tone and inference questions to be pretty easy but I wish my vocab was a better as I didn't understand know what some of the words for the answers meant lol.
Here are my topscore scores:
Test 1
AA: 17
TS: 17
GC 15
OC: 18
BIO: 17
PAT: 18
QR: 18
RC: 19
Test 2
AA: 18
TS: 17
GC: 17
OC: 18
BIO: 16
PAT: 21
QR: 18
RC: 20
Test 3
AA: 19
TS: 18
GC: 18
OC: 19
BIO: 17
PAT: 19
QR: 19
RC: 21
CDP scores ( i started on test 10 first bc i wanted to be different from everybody else lol)
17/18/21/18/18/19/20/18/19/20/22
I would take one full length PAT test and then wouldnt take it agian for another couple of days (sometimes even weeks) and this was my biggest mistake. I would take practice this section constantly. Once you get the hang of it, it isn't hard. It wasn't a coincidence that my higher scores at the end were due to me taking the CDP test in consecutive days. This is the reason why my scores are kinda all over the place until the end.
I have to thank the SDN community for their tips and suggestions. This forum is an invaluable aspect of my studies. 3.2 Overall GPA, 3.07 SciGPA and I'll be attending MWU-AZ Masters program this upcoming fall. Thank you all!
First time:
PAT: 16 (31.2%)
QR: 18 (86.6%)
RC: 17 (35.7%)
BIO: 16 (41%)
GC: 18 (68.4%)
OC: 19 (75.7%)
TS: 18 (70.2%)
AA: 18 (72.5%)
2nd time
PAT: 20 (79%)
QR: 16 (63.5%)
RC: 19 (52.2%)
BIO: 19 (76.6%)
GC: 20 (79.8%)
OC: 21 (85.7%)
TS: 20 (85.2%)
AA: 19 (77.6%)
Overall GPA: 3.2 and SciGPA: 3.1. I'll be doing Midwestern's MA program this upcoming fall. What do you guys think? From what I read, the low QR score won't be too big of a deal as it seems like its the least important score, but I would like confirmation on this haha. GPA shows a gradual upward trend but it's still low so that's why I'm doing the Master program. I'll post a breakdown later.
EDIT: here's my breakdown.
Study materials used: Destroyer, Kaplan subject tests, OAT sample test, 2007 sample DAT, Topscore, Crack DAT PAT, AP cliffs bio, AP barrons bio, Bangitty's bio Notes, Alan's bio notes, Chad's Videos and quizzes
Bio: Oh god this was tough. I felt like half the material that I studied for using Cliff's wasn't even tested on. I spent quite a bit of time studying up for cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and the dreaded taxonomy questions but I didn't get a single questions on any of those. Damn. And it is true about the SDN community says about the bio section being randomn. The majority of my questions were based on developmental biology, so i had quite a bit of questions regarding gastrulation and germ layers. I had a lot of physio-related questions as well. I used AP barron's, AP cliffs, Destroyer and Kaplan BB for this section
GC: Same as everybody else who studies for the DAT. CHAD and DAT destroyer ftw! I want to say that 90% of my questions were based on concepts rather than calculations. Know how to find a bronstead lowery base and acid as well as a lewis acid/base. I watched Chad's videos on my weak areas 2-3 days before my actual test bc I knew i was weak in the concepts. Didn't get a single acid/ base ranking question.
OC: Chad's videos and Destroyer just like Gchem. I had a couple of questions regarding EAS and 1 question on proton NMR (very basic).
PAT: I only used CDP and thought it was worth my money. But oh god the keyholes were difficult in the sense that the real test relied more on proportions than CDP. IMO, the keyholes were the hardest part of the PAT and i was gettting 14/15 or 15/15 on CDP. the TFE section was not too bad and was on par to CDP. Angle ranking i found to be a bit easier than CDP but barely. Hole punches and Cube counting were a lot easier. pattern folding i also found to be on par with CDP. Practice is key! On my first CDP test, i got a 17 and on my last practice test i capped out at 22.
QR: I suck a math and always will. Lots of word problems. Math destroyer is really all you need. I stopped doing math for like a month and that was my mistake. Before that, i was doing one math destroyer test a week and i thought i was getting the hang of it. I should've continued that but i was focusing on everything else because I heard QR was valued the least on the DAT
RC: the only practice that I had for this section was topscore. I purely used Search and Destroy. I tried the Kaplan "road mapping" technique but found that it toook wayyyyyyyy too much time. The real thing has inference and tone questions as opposed to topscore, which had none. I found the tone and inference questions to be pretty easy but I wish my vocab was a better as I didn't understand know what some of the words for the answers meant lol.
Here are my topscore scores:
Test 1
AA: 17
TS: 17
GC 15
OC: 18
BIO: 17
PAT: 18
QR: 18
RC: 19
Test 2
AA: 18
TS: 17
GC: 17
OC: 18
BIO: 16
PAT: 21
QR: 18
RC: 20
Test 3
AA: 19
TS: 18
GC: 18
OC: 19
BIO: 17
PAT: 19
QR: 19
RC: 21
CDP scores ( i started on test 10 first bc i wanted to be different from everybody else lol)
17/18/21/18/18/19/20/18/19/20/22
I would take one full length PAT test and then wouldnt take it agian for another couple of days (sometimes even weeks) and this was my biggest mistake. I would take practice this section constantly. Once you get the hang of it, it isn't hard. It wasn't a coincidence that my higher scores at the end were due to me taking the CDP test in consecutive days. This is the reason why my scores are kinda all over the place until the end.
I have to thank the SDN community for their tips and suggestions. This forum is an invaluable aspect of my studies. 3.2 Overall GPA, 3.07 SciGPA and I'll be attending MWU-AZ Masters program this upcoming fall. Thank you all!
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