Closing it with kaplan

[enigmastorm84]

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Hi everyone,
Im new member, although I've read quite a lot of post in the past few days. Congrats to all of you who have taken the DAT, im taking mine in 6 weeks, I noticed that a lot of you are getting 20s but so far i havent seen a perfect score yet, to all you guys getting 21s,24s, 27s, do you know which problem you missed? My goal is to get a perfect score in at least one subject to offset another bad grade(probably math), Im currently taking the kaplan class, im beffing up the bio with ap bio cliffnotes. I have top score as well, little shaky on math,reading,pat. any input is greatly appreciate it

 

[Mithridates]

My advice after reading your post: don't waste your time trying to get perfect on one section if you have another area you're really weak at (i think you said QR was your weak point). If I were an admissions committee member I would rather see a student get say 24 on orgo & 22 on QR, than 30 on orgo & 16 on QR. Study your weak point! Good scores across the board are key I think. Also, don't waste your time studying AP bio notes unless you've mastered the notes you have for every other section from whatever your dat source is (kaplan, princeton review, etc.). I studied my butt off for the dat and never had all the stuff in my kaplan notes memorized. Be mature in your studying and goals.

 

[Sprgrover]

Well put, Mithridates. In addition you will not know with absolute certainty which question you missed or the reason why - it's a question bank and the ADEA doesn't want to have to create new questions for every test. The DAT is scored on a non-linear scale and the score number is not proportional to the number of correct answers. Just because you missed 10 questions doesn't mean you will get a 20 (in fact it may be much lower). Concentrate on the material and don't worry about the specifics of scoring the DAT. Good luck!