- Joined
- May 18, 2017
- Messages
- 299
- Reaction score
- 448
So I just took the DAT today and I thought I would post a little about my study process/what I thought about the test. Here's my scores:
PAT 22
QR 28
RC 21
BIO 25
GC 26
OC 30
TS 27
AA 26
First off thanks to @orgoman22, @Ari Rezaei and @FeralisExtremum for the awesome resources you guys have created!
I used the typical study materials, DAT Bootcamp, DAT Destroyer, Chad's Videos, Math Deatroyer, Cliffs AP Bio, and Feralis' Notes. All of these are essential to getting a good score.
I'm a chemistry major, so I felt like I had a good background in those areas. I didn't focus a ton of my study on the chemistries, but I did do all of destroyer for both ochem and gchem. I actually did all of dat destroyer twice, but I was dumb and wrote on the book the first time so my second round was just going over the answers in detail. I would write an explanation for every answer choice in the biology section, because biology was my weakest section while doing practice tests.
PAT (22) - For this section I just used the boot camp generators and practice tests, I felt like bootcamp was very representative of this section. Using the generators and looking over the answers from practice tests helped a lot with the visualization of each part. I didn't have any rock keyholes but there were some bootcamp level difficulty
QR (28) - I personally thought this section of my test was stupid easy. Some of the problems only required the ability to read a bar chart. Like elementary school level. I did get a few difficult probability questions though. DAT destroyer and bootcamp are a must for these. The questions were very similar to bootcamp but my test was much easier
RC (21) - This is the score that surprised me the most. I felt it was very easy and thought I would get higher than a 21. Oh well. I didn't really have a prepared strategy, I just read the passages and answers the questions. They were all fairly simple questions
BIO (25) - I was extremely happy to see this score. Bio was the section I knew the least about. My background is pretty weak in bio, but dat destroyer helped tremendously. I started by reading cliffs and feralis, but I felt like it wasn't sticking. It was only when I used destroyer that I actually started remembering things. Go over every answer and write down everything you know about each topic. Don't use destroyer as a test, but as a study guide. IT IS A MUST. I had one question that was straight from destroyer, and I never would have known the answer if I hadn't done destroyer.
GC (26) & OC (30) - Like I said, I'm a chemistry major, so these sections I thought were really easy. Use chads videos; that with destroyer covered everything you need to do well in these sections. I had a fair amount of calculations in the gen chem, but never had to actually solve them. Constants and molecular weights were also given which was nice. Destroyer and Chads are essential for this section.
I was extremely surprised by these scores. I went in thinking a 24 would be great, but I thought I would get a 20 or 21. My mom drove me which was nice because it helped get my mind off the of the test (she's a talker so it was good to talk and not think about the dat). I went in and remembered seeing orgoman22 post in multiple threads of having a mindset of getting a 30, so that's what I did. Go in with a mindset that you will do great.
I knew I was ready because I wanted to just get he test over with more than I was nervous. I didn't feel 100% ready but I felt like I just wanted to get it done with. If you guys have any questions feel free to message me!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
PAT 22
QR 28
RC 21
BIO 25
GC 26
OC 30
TS 27
AA 26
First off thanks to @orgoman22, @Ari Rezaei and @FeralisExtremum for the awesome resources you guys have created!
I used the typical study materials, DAT Bootcamp, DAT Destroyer, Chad's Videos, Math Deatroyer, Cliffs AP Bio, and Feralis' Notes. All of these are essential to getting a good score.
I'm a chemistry major, so I felt like I had a good background in those areas. I didn't focus a ton of my study on the chemistries, but I did do all of destroyer for both ochem and gchem. I actually did all of dat destroyer twice, but I was dumb and wrote on the book the first time so my second round was just going over the answers in detail. I would write an explanation for every answer choice in the biology section, because biology was my weakest section while doing practice tests.
PAT (22) - For this section I just used the boot camp generators and practice tests, I felt like bootcamp was very representative of this section. Using the generators and looking over the answers from practice tests helped a lot with the visualization of each part. I didn't have any rock keyholes but there were some bootcamp level difficulty
QR (28) - I personally thought this section of my test was stupid easy. Some of the problems only required the ability to read a bar chart. Like elementary school level. I did get a few difficult probability questions though. DAT destroyer and bootcamp are a must for these. The questions were very similar to bootcamp but my test was much easier
RC (21) - This is the score that surprised me the most. I felt it was very easy and thought I would get higher than a 21. Oh well. I didn't really have a prepared strategy, I just read the passages and answers the questions. They were all fairly simple questions
BIO (25) - I was extremely happy to see this score. Bio was the section I knew the least about. My background is pretty weak in bio, but dat destroyer helped tremendously. I started by reading cliffs and feralis, but I felt like it wasn't sticking. It was only when I used destroyer that I actually started remembering things. Go over every answer and write down everything you know about each topic. Don't use destroyer as a test, but as a study guide. IT IS A MUST. I had one question that was straight from destroyer, and I never would have known the answer if I hadn't done destroyer.
GC (26) & OC (30) - Like I said, I'm a chemistry major, so these sections I thought were really easy. Use chads videos; that with destroyer covered everything you need to do well in these sections. I had a fair amount of calculations in the gen chem, but never had to actually solve them. Constants and molecular weights were also given which was nice. Destroyer and Chads are essential for this section.
I was extremely surprised by these scores. I went in thinking a 24 would be great, but I thought I would get a 20 or 21. My mom drove me which was nice because it helped get my mind off the of the test (she's a talker so it was good to talk and not think about the dat). I went in and remembered seeing orgoman22 post in multiple threads of having a mindset of getting a 30, so that's what I did. Go in with a mindset that you will do great.
I knew I was ready because I wanted to just get he test over with more than I was nervous. I didn't feel 100% ready but I felt like I just wanted to get it done with. If you guys have any questions feel free to message me!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
