Canadian DAT Help

[Christine Kao]

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Hey everyone, it's my first post here. : )

I'm trying to study for the Canadian DAT. It includes the following sections:
1. Soap Carving
2. Biology and General Chemistry
3. PAT
4. Reading Comprehension

There's no organic chemistry or quantitative reasoning.


My question is what study materials are good for the Canadian DAT. My biggest weakness is the Soap Carving and my second biggest is the PAT. The Biology and Chemistry sections aren't a problem for me in terms of material (biology in particular is good), as I can recall most of it. For those sections, I'll simply need a study source that is tailored to what is found on the DAT, and I can review mainly from my textbooks.

I have the following materials: chalk from IQ publications (cheaper than soap), 9 bars of official soap/knife/ruler, PAT and carving practice books from IQ Publications, and Barron's DAT book.

I'm currently considering getting Kaplan's DAT book (but it has o-chem and math which I don't need) and TopScore.

Can anyone recommend any other resources? I'd like to avoid the Kaplan book if possible, unless you think its bio and chem review is particularly excellent. I've heard of DAT Professor and KSF Review.

So any recommendations for a Canadian DAT'er who wants especially to get her soap carving up? Thanks a bunch...as soon as I delve further into this little adventure I'll reply to your questions too!

--Christine

 

[prez_al]

Soap carving can be a b*tch. The more practice you do the better you'll get, I believe the first time I did the DAT, I got killed on carving even though I did practice it like crazy. IMO, I think you have to be skilled enough to carve something in about 25 minutes leaving 5 minutes to verify. The CDA DAT prep material for carving is crap because the real thing is infinitely more tricky as you will need to be able to carve triangles and weird trapazoidal shapes... so practice carving those shapes instead of the typical rectangle cuz when I did that, I nailed carving the second time around. Also learn to guesstimate dimensions really well as this will save you LOTS of time during the real thing.