CDP Realistic

[marymatthews]

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How realistic are the questions on CDP to the real DAT? The difficulty is the same?
Scoring-wise?
Thanks

Also, most recommend AP Cliffs Bio book.... what about AP Barrons Bio? Any feedback on the Barrons BIO book?

 

[whatDATmean]

People say CDP is fairly accurate with the real DAT as far as I know. I could be wrong.

However, I have a DAT Barron's book and I found many errors within the book pertaining to the DAT itself, some wrong molecular formulas (ie. glucose is written as C6H12C6). Also, many said that the answer key for the practice tests are wrong. However, Barron's is okay with the PAT portion strategy wise but the actual practice is way easier than the actual DAT. You're better off with a Cliff's book. You can also get Kaplan Blue Book as an alternative.

My advice stay away from Barron's.

 

[marymatthews]

I am talking about the AP Barrons Bio book, not the Barrons DAT
AP cliffs Bio vs AP barrons Bio

 

[whatDATmean]

Well if Barron's DAT has typos and errors I don't see why would the AP version could be any better. If the majority of SDN here uses Cliff so obviously its a bit better or SDN would use Barrons in place of Cliffs. 99% of the time when I'm reading people suggest Cliffs so yeah.