Are these necessary for the truly high scores?

[ohohitsmagic08]

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Hi,
I am aiming to get 24+ on all of my sciences. I am going to read all of Campbell's biology textbook along with Cliffs. For the chemistry, however, are the textbooks really necessary to do well. I heard that both gchem and ochem are really easy as long as you go through Kaplan BB, Chad's videos, and Destroyer. I will also be getting top score and achiever which should only help.

Let's assume that this is somebody will almost zero recollection from the chemistry courses (I won't be taking the DAT for 2 years...). Do you think going through textbooks are needed to get those top scores? If so, which ones do you recommend? I've heard good things about Wade and McMurry.

Thanks in advance🙂

 

[kkmaths90]

I would say Biology Textbook would help because it has all the information you need to know so yea then going through Cliff and Kaplan will be easy for you.

I don't know what kind of chemistry textbook you have but I hate my textbook. I only did Kaplan, Destroyer and Chad's video are great help.

Org Chemistry I did destroyer, and my Textbook because it's easy reading through it.

Math I only did destroyer and kaplan online problems like tests and all.

PAT = Crack DAT PAT is the only thing I did and kaplan.

RC = honestly I don't know...I am bad at it. I just want to get 18 on it b/c i know i can do good on other sections.

Most people also have Topscore, Achiever. so if you can get those 4 books (Kaplan, Topscore, Achiever, Destroyer and CDP) you should do good, and 2 years from now is good but start studying soon so by that time you will be so ready to beat everyone's score here 😛 lol

 

[denner]

Hi,
I am aiming to get 24+ on all of my sciences. I am going to read all of Campbell's biology textbook along with Cliffs. For the chemistry, however, are the textbooks really necessary to do well. I heard that both gchem and ochem are really easy as long as you go through Kaplan BB and Destroyer. I will also be getting top score and achiever which should only help.

Let's assume that this is somebody will almost zero recollection from the chemistry courses (I won't be taking the DAT for 2 years...). Do you think going through textbooks are needed to get those top scores? If so, which ones do you recommend? I've heard good things about Wade and McMurry.

Thanks in advance🙂

Change "Destroyer" to "Chad's GChem videos" for general chemistry.

I did awful in general chemistry 3 years ago and learned it all in a day or two watching those videos.

 

[NumbaOneStunna]

Imo I dont think textbooks are needed for the DAT even if you want a high score. For Chem Ochem with the usual DAT prep stuff you should be fine to tackle almost all the problems - there are some curveballs I saw 1 on my GC and maybe 1 or 2 or OC but those I dont think I would have got if I had read my textbook. Sure it might have been in there, but with the huge amount of info covered on the DAT even if you saw it you might not remember it.

For Bio I used campbells to supplement my studies, most of the questions here are real easy but there are like 3-4 curveballs that aren't really about memorization and aren't really about concepts - they are just really random and are probably best tackled with a broad background in bio - the kind that comes with majoring in it or just knowing alot of random stuff.

I say all this because I tried to go all out for my DAT and leave no stone unturned blah blah blah. But if I studied maybe 50% less for everything (esp bio) I really think I would have gotten the same score. The DAT Natural Sciences to me is basically a whole bunch of very very easy questions and then some more obscure but not hard questions if you know the topic. This means the lvl of depth for diff subjects is incredibly shallow and maybe when you take your DAT you might realize that time was better spent not studying so much 😉 . It sure doesn't hurt, but i think if you read campbells and take the test you'll find it to be overkill. Say you memorize campbells hypothetically speaking - you'll probably get say a 26 but if you just do cliffs you'll prolly get like a 20+. Strictly from the perspective of getting into a badass dental school, I think your time would be better invested in improving other aspects of your application. Idk about you but reading Campbells and knowing would take me at the very least 3 weeks.

 

[ohohitsmagic08]

Hm, I see. Well I am definitely planning on reading the Campbell biology textbook. I was more wondering about the gchem and ochem, anyway. I'll probably just watch the videos, read the BB, and practice with destroyer before jumping on practice tests.

Imo I dont think textbooks are needed for the DAT even if you want a high score. For Chem Ochem with the usual DAT prep stuff you should be fine to tackle almost all the problems - there are some curveballs I saw 1 on my GC and maybe 1 or 2 or OC but those I dont think I would have got if I had read my textbook. Sure it might have been in there, but with the huge amount of info covered on the DAT even if you saw it you might not remember it.

For Bio I used campbells to supplement my studies, most of the questions here are real easy but there are like 3-4 curveballs that aren't really about memorization and aren't really about concepts - they are just really random and are probably best tackled with a broad background in bio - the kind that comes with majoring in it or just knowing alot of random stuff.

I say all this because I tried to go all out for my DAT and leave no stone unturned blah blah blah. But if I studied maybe 50% less for everything (esp bio) I really think I would have gotten the same score. The DAT Natural Sciences to me is basically a whole bunch of very very easy questions and then some more obscure but not hard questions if you know the topic. This means the lvl of depth for diff subjects is incredibly shallow and maybe when you take your DAT you might realize that time was better spent not studying so much 😉 . It sure doesn't hurt, but i think if you read campbells and take the test you'll find it to be overkill. Say you memorize campbells hypothetically speaking - you'll probably get say a 26 but if you just do cliffs you'll prolly get like a 20+. Strictly from the perspective of getting into a badass dental school, I think your time would be better invested in improving other aspects of your application. Idk about you but reading Campbells and knowing would take me at the very least 3 weeks.