Concerns for chem and ochem

[meep_meep]

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I am not a typical science major, so chem/ochem is naturally hard for me. I recently finished chad's videos on chem and ochem because I heard they were the best to prepare for the DAT. However, now that I am finished with chad's video, I have been tackling the DAT destroyer for practice. When I am going through the problems, I am getting a lot of them wrong or I just have no clue what the answer is. I am panicking because my scheduled DAT test date is in a month. What should I do to get good at ochem and chem within a month? Going through the destoyer just make me realize how unprepared I am, unless the actually DAT is nothing like that?

 

[510586]

I am not a typical science major, so chem/ochem is naturally hard for me. I recently finished chad's videos on chem and ochem because I heard they were the best to prepare for the DAT. However, now that I am finished with chad's video, I have been tackling the DAT destroyer for practice. When I am going through the problems, I am getting a lot of them wrong or I just have no clue what the answer is. I am panicking because my scheduled DAT test date is in a month. What should I do to get good at ochem and chem within a month? Going through the destoyer just make me realize how unprepared I am, unless the actually DAT is nothing like that?

People normally don't do very well first run through (most miss 30-50% of the questions I've heard), so don't be too worried about that. One user here got like 60% of them correct his first run as well and only studied for a month. He got a 26 (this is probably not very common though). Search up jimmpanzee or something and you can maybe try out his study schedule

 

[NavyDDS1990]

repetition is your best friend. keep on practicing over and over and try really hard to understand why you got it right and why you got it wrong.

 

[dent_gent]

Ya, don't worry about how many questions you get wrong your first time through destroyer. I don't think its a good way to gauge how well you will do on the DAT. Instead, treat destroyer as another learning tool and as a way to spot your weaknesses (calorimetry, base ranking, stoichiometry, etc.). I think destroyer is actually your best bet at getting better and chem and ochem fast. Good luck to you, you got this!