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My scores aren't too amazing or anything, but maybe they will help someone out there like you all have helped me!
My scores:
1st DAT: PA15/QR15/RC18/BIO16/GC18/OC17/TS17/AA17
2nd DAT: PA21/QR17/RC20/BIO23/GC20/OC21/TS21/AA20
cGPA: 3.73 sGPA: 3.68 (from AADSAS which is weird since my school calculated it to be a little higher...)
So I would say I studied between 5-7 hours each day with a few breaks here and there. I would've studied more than that, but I was also shadowing a lot and helping my grandparents out (grandfather was undergoing chemo/radiation and wasn't getting around too well).
Things I've used:
DAT Achiever: 7/10 -> perfect to emulate the conditions you'll be testing in, however the problems were very mean. I'd be lying though if I said it didn't help me with being more aware with how much time I had.
DAT Bootcamp: 10/10 -> Ari's pretty awesome. This site probably helped me out the most! My 17 in QR is probably more so that I looked at math very last and not a reflection in this program. For PA, boot camps generator is exceptionally wonderful.
DAT question of the day: 9/10 -> perfect for when I was on the go or helping my grandparents. If you look on the website, the questions from way back are stored and you can just go through them on mobile and learn on the go.
Feralis' Notes: 9.5/10 -> so detailed and long, but so very useful! Between these notes and Craig savage, I felt pretty prepared for the DAT.
Kaplan Blue Book: 5/10 -> useful to me only for the Bio section. I studied this book so hard my first go round and didn't do so well on my first DAT... I wish I had done more for my first DAT, but I was working at a fellowship and just didn't see where I had time to manage getting a good depth with anything else.
Chad's Videos: 10/10 -> Chad's the man. My organic and general chemistry scores I owe to him.
Craig Savage's Biology videos: 10/10 -> These videos are golden. Just enough details and processes are explain very well. Great to stack with Feralis' notes.
Barron's DAT: 4/10 -> didn't get much out of this guy. The most useful thing was the CD that came with the book for practice tests.
Cliff's AP Bio 4e: 8/10 -> also very help, but very dry too. I should've gotten the 3e since it was more reflective of the DAT.
So my process of studying started with reading cliffs bio and watching chads videos. I would try to get through bio, organic, and general chem a little each day so I wasn't doing too much of one thing and getting burned out. On days I felt drained of learning new things, I would do chads quizzes. One thin I regret on this is not keeping up with all of the math videos. I had actually bought chads videos twice and thought I had remembered most of the math, but alas I suppose not.
After that, I started taking Bootcamp bio, chemistries, RC, and PAT. I didn't look at QR until the last minute and I did all the problems by subject instead of timed. I also used Achiever mainly for BIO/GC/OC. It probably would've helped to look at their QR as well...
I didn't record my scores, but for Bootcamp my first scores for bio ranged from 16-25, GC ranged from 18-21 and OC 17-24. PAT was all over the place so I decided to just take them one type at a time randomly while studying for the rest of the subjects.
Biggest regret: not taking QR a little more seriously.
My scores:
1st DAT: PA15/QR15/RC18/BIO16/GC18/OC17/TS17/AA17
2nd DAT: PA21/QR17/RC20/BIO23/GC20/OC21/TS21/AA20
cGPA: 3.73 sGPA: 3.68 (from AADSAS which is weird since my school calculated it to be a little higher...)
So I would say I studied between 5-7 hours each day with a few breaks here and there. I would've studied more than that, but I was also shadowing a lot and helping my grandparents out (grandfather was undergoing chemo/radiation and wasn't getting around too well).
Things I've used:
DAT Achiever: 7/10 -> perfect to emulate the conditions you'll be testing in, however the problems were very mean. I'd be lying though if I said it didn't help me with being more aware with how much time I had.
DAT Bootcamp: 10/10 -> Ari's pretty awesome. This site probably helped me out the most! My 17 in QR is probably more so that I looked at math very last and not a reflection in this program. For PA, boot camps generator is exceptionally wonderful.
DAT question of the day: 9/10 -> perfect for when I was on the go or helping my grandparents. If you look on the website, the questions from way back are stored and you can just go through them on mobile and learn on the go.
Feralis' Notes: 9.5/10 -> so detailed and long, but so very useful! Between these notes and Craig savage, I felt pretty prepared for the DAT.
Kaplan Blue Book: 5/10 -> useful to me only for the Bio section. I studied this book so hard my first go round and didn't do so well on my first DAT... I wish I had done more for my first DAT, but I was working at a fellowship and just didn't see where I had time to manage getting a good depth with anything else.
Chad's Videos: 10/10 -> Chad's the man. My organic and general chemistry scores I owe to him.
Craig Savage's Biology videos: 10/10 -> These videos are golden. Just enough details and processes are explain very well. Great to stack with Feralis' notes.
Barron's DAT: 4/10 -> didn't get much out of this guy. The most useful thing was the CD that came with the book for practice tests.
Cliff's AP Bio 4e: 8/10 -> also very help, but very dry too. I should've gotten the 3e since it was more reflective of the DAT.
So my process of studying started with reading cliffs bio and watching chads videos. I would try to get through bio, organic, and general chem a little each day so I wasn't doing too much of one thing and getting burned out. On days I felt drained of learning new things, I would do chads quizzes. One thin I regret on this is not keeping up with all of the math videos. I had actually bought chads videos twice and thought I had remembered most of the math, but alas I suppose not.
After that, I started taking Bootcamp bio, chemistries, RC, and PAT. I didn't look at QR until the last minute and I did all the problems by subject instead of timed. I also used Achiever mainly for BIO/GC/OC. It probably would've helped to look at their QR as well...
I didn't record my scores, but for Bootcamp my first scores for bio ranged from 16-25, GC ranged from 18-21 and OC 17-24. PAT was all over the place so I decided to just take them one type at a time randomly while studying for the rest of the subjects.
Biggest regret: not taking QR a little more seriously.
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