hmmm. topscore's gchem and ochem were more accurate to the real test. honestly i kinda freaked out about ochem and gchem a couple days before the dat because i was studying kaplan tests and they kept tricking me. its not really that tricky on the real thing.
bio....yes although i read the stupid kaplan book twice and did fine on all my practice exams and got good grades in bio, a lot of the stuff on the dat i didnt really recognize. the types of questions were things that we should know, like enzymes but the questions had an emphasis on a different aspect of that subject. HOW MANY TIMES have we gotten questions on the lock and key theory or the induced fit theory of enzymes? practice tests always ask you the same topics, the same aspect of the same topic. but on the test they ask things that you ideally should know if you read the kaplan book, but they havent been all that reinforced in your mind because the practice tests didnt emphasize them. idk if you really know hwat i mean. i think that my problem was that i saw so many of the same types of questions when i did the practice tests the last week of studying that i didnt really bother to remember all that stuff that i read in the book. so yes that is how i analyze my bio score because i dont know how else to.
i always had a problem with reading comp. if you look at my past posts hehe i kept running out of time. what i did was the kaplan roadmap, but really really condensed. so i would write 1.) and write the key words of the FIRSt sentence only. i fully read the first sentence (topic sentence) in each paragraph without being in a rush to get an understanding of what was going on. then i looked at the questions. my topics were.....hypothalamus, stocks, and something about parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. they were pretty easy. kaplan teaches you to write a lot of keywords etc etc but that takes way too long. just read the first sentence, write those keywords, and if you feel cool then as you scroll down write some names of people or dates down. the rest you will be able to find or just guess.
math....dont underestimate the time! i was doing fine and i was halfway through with half of my time left. and then BOOM i was hit with so many wordproblems near the end. yes that was my downfall.
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thanks for listening to me and giving me advice guys. you guys seriously kept me sane these last weeks!!
