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Well, I didn't know the meaning of FRAPPed until I came back from the test. I had very difference scores from my usual practice scores and I will explain it below.
PAT 19(76.8)
QR 19(81.8)
RC 19(53.9)
Biology 19(78.2)
GC 21 (87.3)
OC 22 (90.9)
TS 20 (85.5)
AA 20 (85.1)

Overall, I gotta say I'm ecstatic about my science score and very very disappointed on my all other scores. During my achiever and kaplan practices I never scored below 21 for QR and 20 for RC usually getting 22 for both of them. Also, for PAT I was getting 17,19,19,21,20 on my CRACK PAT so I was hoping I'd get +21. For my science practice scores on the other hand, I had never gotten above 20 on any of the subjects except GC with TS usually around 18.
Bio test was really random. I was Ecology major, so I neglected all things ecological and environmental and concentrated on microbio, but the bio test had so many random ecological question. Most of my wrong answers were probably from the ecological questions. Microbio on the other hand was very basic and easy, excpet the FRAP question. I came back home and read about it and still don't get it.
For both chemistries, it was very easy and I fished the science section with like 20 minutes left. I can't say I'm unhappy with my science sections.
PAT had one hole punching (my favorite) question that could not work and TFE was very hard cuz counting line didn't work, so I ran out of time while solving TFE problems at the end.
RC had that infamous ethics passage but honestly ethics passage was not the hardest passage in terms of technicality and length. I did not run out of time but had to guess on almost 10% of the questions because it was simply to hard to find some terms.
QR was the most surprising section of all. On all my practic tests I finish QR with at least 5 minutes left, but there were so many word problems that I ran out of time. I am embarrased by my QR score having taken like 10 math courses during my college. I guess I had bad selection of problems. I was very angry because after the test because if I had my usual QR score I would've had 21 AA.
Anyways, I have 3.56 GPA 3.34 Science GPA and hopefully this score is enough to get me into at least one school. I hope my explanation was helpful and if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer.
 
Well, I didn't know the meaning of FRAPPed until I came back from the test. I had very difference scores from my usual practice scores and I will explain it below.
PAT 19(76.8)
QR 19(81.8)
RC 19(53.9)
Biology 19(78.2)
GC 21 (87.3)
OC 22 (90.9)
TS 20 (85.5)
AA 20 (85.1)


Overall, I gotta say I'm ecstatic about my science score and very very disappointed on my all other scores. During my achiever and kaplan practices I never scored below 21 for QR and 20 for RC usually getting 22 for both of them. Also, for PAT I was getting 17,19,19,21,20 on my CRACK PAT so I was hoping I'd get +21. For my science practice scores on the other hand, I had never gotten above 20 on any of the subjects except GC with TS usually around 18.
Bio test was really random. I was Ecology major, so I neglected all things ecological and environmental and concentrated on microbio, but the bio test had so many random ecological question. Most of my wrong answers were probably from the ecological questions. Microbio on the other hand was very basic and easy, excpet the FRAP question. I came back home and read about it and still don't get it.
For both chemistries, it was very easy and I fished the science section with like 20 minutes left. I can't say I'm unhappy with my science sections.
PAT had one hole punching (my favorite) question that could not work and TFE was very hard cuz counting line didn't work, so I ran out of time while solving TFE problems at the end.
RC had that infamous ethics passage but honestly ethics passage was not the hardest passage in terms of technicality and length. I did not run out of time but had to guess on almost 10% of the questions because it was simply to hard to find some terms.
QR was the most surprising section of all. On all my practic tests I finish QR with at least 5 minutes left, but there were so many word problems that I ran out of time. I am embarrased by my QR score having taken like 10 math courses during my college. I guess I had bad selection of problems. I was very angry because after the test because if I had my usual QR score I would've had 21 AA.
Anyways, I have 3.56 GPA 3.34 Science GPA and hopefully this score is enough to get me into at least one school. I hope my explanation was helpful and if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer.

Solid Scores overall. Very good job and you can expect a bunch of interviews.
 
Thank you guys, although your stats discourage me a lot klutzy
 
Thank you guys, although your stats discourage me a lot klutzy

Don't get discouraged by others on this forum who have ridiculously high scores. The people on SDN are definitely not representative of the pool of applicants you will be competing against. I haven't looked too much into the stats needed to get into dental school (I'm still a year away from applying), but from what I have read, your scores are all at or above the averages of those accepted.

Congrats on a job well done.
 
I was wondering if you used any other study material besides kaplan? Did you uses Cliff's AP Bio or destroyer. How did you study for the exam...
 
Thank you guys, although your stats discourage me a lot klutzy

If my stats dicourage you than what do Harry's or Pauls or Mddang's stats do, make you give up lol. My stats arent that hot, and the truth is I wasnt really happy with them once i saw them. You dont have any marks under 19, I do.
 
I used achiever, kaplan, destroyer and Crack dat pat. I really think if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't touch achiever because it was way too hard for science and way too easy for QR and RC. I think achiever may have hurt me in terms of QR and RC because I didn't study them at all trusting my practice scores from achiever. Crack Dat was really helpful in terms of honing my skills with all the sections and timing. I studied about 4-5 hours every day for couple of months, although some days (very rare) I studied close to eight hours and some days (more often) I didn't study at all depending on my mood. I think I have pretty good background in gen chem and orgo because professors at my university is awesome, but not so much for bio, thus I devoted about half of my studying time solely on bio.
 
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pretty much all of the TFE questions had same number of vertical lines and horizontal lines. I could picture the image (pretty much only way to solve the problem), but it takes time, thus I ran out of time.
 
what were you getting in achiever qr and rc if you dont mind me asking ?
It was written above, but I will give you a break down.
QR RC
Achiever score 1 : 24 20
Achiever score 2 : 25 20
Achiever score 3 : 23 21
Kaplan Diagnostic: 22 21
Kaplan Midterm: 21 20
Kaplan Final: skipped 22
So you see my disappointment in these sections, and how unreliable achiever is for these sections.
 
Great Job! I am hoping for a 20/20 also; even though that sounds kind of low around here
 
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