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Hey guys, didn't have anything better to do so I figured I might try and help some people with the most stressful part, at least for me, of the DAT. A lot of students struggle with biology so I just wanted to try and break it down for y'all.
Resources (in order of importance)
1) Alan's Notes
2) Cliffs AP bio
3) Destroyer
4) YouTube
For a lot of students, including myself, this thought comes into there head, "I'm a biology major so I should be good with this section, won't have to study that much."
THIS IS A TRAP!
Yes, we have all taken gen bio. For very few of you your classes may have covered all of the topics on the DAT but for the vast majority your classes did NOT.
So I will give some advice on how to achieve certain scores.
To achieve a 17-18. Don't study and rely on undergrad biology courses. You will most likely know the very broad questions that are easy and make up about 20 or so questions on the DAT.
To achieve a 19-20. Read cliffs or Barron's AP biology a few times. A lot of people make the mistake of studying for biology passively by saying I'll just read a chapter of cliffs everyday for a month and then be set for the DAT. This is fine if you want a decent DAT score but is not sufficient to blow it out of the water.
To achieve 21-22 I highly recommend the following steps:
1) read cliffs AP bio twice. One chapter a day taking time to digest all of the information. After finishing cliffs take a week or two to really learn your notes. Take notes on things you don't know not what you do!
2) about 2 weeks before the exam read Alan's notes, 10 pages a day, and take DAT BC tests. Make sure to go over solutions.
3) then the last 3 days before your exam review your notes
You will be set for a pretty good biology score.
To score 23+
1) read cliffs 3 times each times one chapter at a time taking good notes (should take about a month)
2) review your notes for about 2 weeks hammering them in
3) biology destroyer! Do 75 questions a day so it'll take 8 days to finish this. Do this 3 times. Know destroyer inside and out! It'll serve as a biology review and will give you the answers to the "odd" questions that could appear on the exam. This will take about 3 weeks.
4)Take a week to go through the DAT BC tests.
5) Alan's notes. By this time you should be good for biology. Refresh your memory of everything by reading 15 pages of Alan's notes a day for about 2 weeks before the exam. This should get you through everything about 4 times right before your exam.
YOURE READY TO SLAUGHTER DAT BIO!
This is approximately 2.5-3 month biology schedule to make sure you ace this section.
Good luck!
Resources (in order of importance)
1) Alan's Notes
2) Cliffs AP bio
3) Destroyer
4) YouTube
For a lot of students, including myself, this thought comes into there head, "I'm a biology major so I should be good with this section, won't have to study that much."
THIS IS A TRAP!
Yes, we have all taken gen bio. For very few of you your classes may have covered all of the topics on the DAT but for the vast majority your classes did NOT.
So I will give some advice on how to achieve certain scores.
To achieve a 17-18. Don't study and rely on undergrad biology courses. You will most likely know the very broad questions that are easy and make up about 20 or so questions on the DAT.
To achieve a 19-20. Read cliffs or Barron's AP biology a few times. A lot of people make the mistake of studying for biology passively by saying I'll just read a chapter of cliffs everyday for a month and then be set for the DAT. This is fine if you want a decent DAT score but is not sufficient to blow it out of the water.
To achieve 21-22 I highly recommend the following steps:
1) read cliffs AP bio twice. One chapter a day taking time to digest all of the information. After finishing cliffs take a week or two to really learn your notes. Take notes on things you don't know not what you do!
2) about 2 weeks before the exam read Alan's notes, 10 pages a day, and take DAT BC tests. Make sure to go over solutions.
3) then the last 3 days before your exam review your notes
You will be set for a pretty good biology score.
To score 23+
1) read cliffs 3 times each times one chapter at a time taking good notes (should take about a month)
2) review your notes for about 2 weeks hammering them in
3) biology destroyer! Do 75 questions a day so it'll take 8 days to finish this. Do this 3 times. Know destroyer inside and out! It'll serve as a biology review and will give you the answers to the "odd" questions that could appear on the exam. This will take about 3 weeks.
4)Take a week to go through the DAT BC tests.
5) Alan's notes. By this time you should be good for biology. Refresh your memory of everything by reading 15 pages of Alan's notes a day for about 2 weeks before the exam. This should get you through everything about 4 times right before your exam.
YOURE READY TO SLAUGHTER DAT BIO!
This is approximately 2.5-3 month biology schedule to make sure you ace this section.
Good luck!
