aug 17th DAT breakdown!!

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OMG! i had no faith in myself when i walked into the testing room. My heart was pounding like crazy. Because my family all went to another country and my dog was very sick so I couldn't concentrate that much. Also, i had to take a lot of summer science courses so while iw as taking my dat course with kaplan, i couldn't concentrate. I didnt' even know what angiosperm was....i know.....stupid. I basically had only two weeks to study my butt off, which i didn't because my sister kept on turning on TV and i wanted to watch it so BADLY!!

Also, i think i hate too much breakfast. I had to use the bathroom so badly at hte end of science section. I practically wasted ten minutes and i couldn't concentrate. TT I am so sad of my scores.

Anyways here i go with my scores. they are not that good TT

bio-20
gchem-21
ochem-19
pat-20
reading-25
qr-18 (T.T)

TS - 20
AA - 21

bio - OMG so random. I didn't know more than half of the questions. SO RANDOM!! i think dat destroyer helped a little bit but seriously,,,,,guessed on more questions.

gchem - I took kaplan course, topscore, and dat destroyer. out of them, destroyer saved my life!! for my midterm practice for kaplan, i got 13. I HATE CHEMISTRY!! however, i was so surprised with my score. I AM SO LUCKY!! kaplan,,,,,,,,,did help a little bit. just solve all the workshop questions. they help.

ochem - OMG this is the section where i had to go use the bathroom. I feel ******ed. the reactions were really hard. they were as long as the problems on destroyer. I dont' know why i got stuck with the hard ones.and most reactions. I had like ten minutes to solve all of the questions. yes i know. i am stupid.

PAT - my screen sucked. SUCKED. the angle part was broken down cuz of stupid pixels. I coudln't tell the difference. the top frond end was harder than CDP. i don't know why. the folding was pretty okay. I thought i would get higher but i guess i overestimated my level. practice angles on CDP. helps a lot. topscore helps a little bit also. hole punching = piece of CAKE! C: i was only happy about that part. the cube counting was cool. practice cube counting with kaplan. similar to that.

reading - as you can probably tell, i am not that fluent in english. I hate writing. I hate reading. My passages had 12 15 and 18 paragraphs. So long. I was happy that i didn't get frap or piano. I had nerve system, cardiac system, and cancer drugs. All the questions were information-based. I had like 5 problems where I had to look at diagrams and choose the right answers. I never saw that kind of questions from anywhere!! I guess i just got lucky.

qr - R U KIDDING ME? i had literally 30 questions that were 5 to 6 sentences long questions from the beginning. I guessed on like 34 problems. I thought i failed math. I expected 13. I had no time left. The last five questions i clicked on all C. i know - pathetic!

overall, i used barrons, kaplan online course, topscore, cdp, and destroyer. I went over destroyer like 5 or 6 times for each section. math didn't help at all. bio and gchem VERY GOOD! ochem.....whatever. I say just solve many problems as you can. for one week, i read over stuff and for the other week just solved problems after problems while watching tv -_,-

my overall GPA is 3.23 and sGPA is 3.08. I know..i played too much during freshmen year.

I applied to uop (Because i am a uop student), usc, ucla, nyu, unlv, western, loma linda, howard, and tufts. Do you think i have any chance with any of these schools? i know my gpa sucks and my dat score is not that good. anyone??

p.s. i had to take out all the questions. said it was illegal.
 
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Yeah, I think a postdoctoral in in order for those poor science scores.

Good luck, you've got an extremely long road ahead of you.
 
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