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After i received bad score, i did not want to post any breakdown..
but since i received a lot of help from many SDNers,
i was thinking that maybe posting this will help at least someone..
yeah my score isnt great, and i maybe need to retake my dat,
but i just want to give it a go for this cycle..(just gona hope hope pray pray! lol)
if i get rejected for all, definitely going to retake my DAT again next year
PAT 21
RC 16🙁
QR 20
BIO 18😳
GC 23
OC 20
TS 20
AA 20
Materials used: Cliffs APbio, CHADs video, destroyer, Kaplan(read only once when i didnt know anything about DAT, and 3hours before my test), Topscore, CDP, DATqvault (way to difficult IMO), organic chem as second language (just read once to know some basic stuffs about Ochem)
*Underlines things are must in order to get 20 or above IMO
PAT:
I only used CrackDatPAT and this is i guess pefect source.
DAT is little bit harder for all sections except angle ranking, but if you do well on CDP, it is definitely doable and you can get above 20.
(20/21 /22 /20 /23 /24 /23 /24/ 25/25)
This is my CDP score, and i dont know what happened to my realDAT score 🙁 maybe i chocked too much?
Just wanted to say everything is pretty similar to CDP, except little easier for angle ranking. Hole punching problem looks harder, since sometimes they fold weird shape 5 times and etc... but you could figure out easily.
Honestly, i always had around 20 minutes to spare at the end of CDP, but only had around 5minutes left on real DAT... pressure pressure pressure 🙁
RC
dont know what to say about this section, my lowest section of all.
Only use topscore and datqvault.
I used "Search and Destroy" method and scored consistent 20s for all practice tests.
BUT DO NOT USE SEARCH AND DESTROY METHOD FOR RC section
I only had like maybe 2 -3 tones and inference questions for each passage, but you cant really use S&D method except 1-2 problems. Time ran out, i had to guess last 7 questions. Please have other methods, and dont underestimate this part.
Many people have been saying that RC is one of the most important parts of DAT and few schools have minimum RC requirement.. so please PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
QR
didnt really study for this.. knew and remembered all the trig identities and other formulas since middle school so didnt really study for this.
IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GOOD AT MATH (like i did)
make sure to know p-value, standard deviation, and other few stat problems.
just simply knowing that they are wasnt enough.
i didnt really focus on pvalues and etc cuz i expected none. but oh well i had 3 of them.
make sure to cover everything.. rest were pretty easy and i probably had made some mistakes.. since i ran out of time figuring out stupid pvalue
BIO
didnt really study much for this section
second lowest score of my DAT.. i just read Cliffs few times, skimmed thru Kaplan before DAT, did destroyer twice and memorized Alan's notes. make sure you add explanation of whatever you got wrong for destroyer or other practice materials to your Alan's notes. and just memorized them.. pretty straight forward and simple i just thought i should have put more effort and time into this section..
GC and OC
Just like everyone else was saying, CHAD+DESTROYER you are good to go.
compared to any other practice materials, real DAT GC+OC is so easy and simple. actually i felt like i got 100% for GC and probably 1-2 wrong for OC. thats how confident i was after finishing this section, but oh well my score isnt great.
Honestly i think even destroyer is overkill but make sure you do at least twice of them. memorize the roadmap.
i had almost no background OC but yeah i pulled average score 20.
make sure you watch Chad and take careful notes
then do destroyer multiple times. at first i only got 30% right but later, i get like 99% of them right. Make sure to memorize the roadmap of destroyer!
BUT dont just memorize.. make sure you understand. thats more efficient and easier to memorize and you will never forget!
here is my crappy breakdown with crappy score but i hope i could just contribute at least a little to SDNers great DAT score in the future 🙂🙂
let me know if you guys have any questions, i will be glad to answer them and help anyone who were in my shoes
( BIO/ GC/ OC/ TS/ PAT/ RC/ QR/ AA)
Topscore 1 ( 17/ 19/ 20/ 19/ 21/ 20 / 29 / 21 )
topscore 2 ( 18/ 21/ 25/ 21 / NO/ 19 / 26/ 22)
Topscore 3(18/ 28/ 21/ 21/ NO/ 20/ 30 / 23 )
*Topscore PAT sucks
but since i received a lot of help from many SDNers,
i was thinking that maybe posting this will help at least someone..
yeah my score isnt great, and i maybe need to retake my dat,
but i just want to give it a go for this cycle..(just gona hope hope pray pray! lol)
if i get rejected for all, definitely going to retake my DAT again next year
PAT 21
RC 16🙁
QR 20
BIO 18😳
GC 23
OC 20
TS 20
AA 20
Materials used: Cliffs APbio, CHADs video, destroyer, Kaplan(read only once when i didnt know anything about DAT, and 3hours before my test), Topscore, CDP, DATqvault (way to difficult IMO), organic chem as second language (just read once to know some basic stuffs about Ochem)
*Underlines things are must in order to get 20 or above IMO
PAT:
I only used CrackDatPAT and this is i guess pefect source.
DAT is little bit harder for all sections except angle ranking, but if you do well on CDP, it is definitely doable and you can get above 20.
(20/21 /22 /20 /23 /24 /23 /24/ 25/25)
This is my CDP score, and i dont know what happened to my realDAT score 🙁 maybe i chocked too much?
Just wanted to say everything is pretty similar to CDP, except little easier for angle ranking. Hole punching problem looks harder, since sometimes they fold weird shape 5 times and etc... but you could figure out easily.
Honestly, i always had around 20 minutes to spare at the end of CDP, but only had around 5minutes left on real DAT... pressure pressure pressure 🙁
RC
dont know what to say about this section, my lowest section of all.
Only use topscore and datqvault.
I used "Search and Destroy" method and scored consistent 20s for all practice tests.
BUT DO NOT USE SEARCH AND DESTROY METHOD FOR RC section
I only had like maybe 2 -3 tones and inference questions for each passage, but you cant really use S&D method except 1-2 problems. Time ran out, i had to guess last 7 questions. Please have other methods, and dont underestimate this part.
Many people have been saying that RC is one of the most important parts of DAT and few schools have minimum RC requirement.. so please PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
QR
didnt really study for this.. knew and remembered all the trig identities and other formulas since middle school so didnt really study for this.
IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GOOD AT MATH (like i did)
make sure to know p-value, standard deviation, and other few stat problems.
just simply knowing that they are wasnt enough.
i didnt really focus on pvalues and etc cuz i expected none. but oh well i had 3 of them.
make sure to cover everything.. rest were pretty easy and i probably had made some mistakes.. since i ran out of time figuring out stupid pvalue
BIO
didnt really study much for this section
second lowest score of my DAT.. i just read Cliffs few times, skimmed thru Kaplan before DAT, did destroyer twice and memorized Alan's notes. make sure you add explanation of whatever you got wrong for destroyer or other practice materials to your Alan's notes. and just memorized them.. pretty straight forward and simple i just thought i should have put more effort and time into this section..
GC and OC
Just like everyone else was saying, CHAD+DESTROYER you are good to go.
compared to any other practice materials, real DAT GC+OC is so easy and simple. actually i felt like i got 100% for GC and probably 1-2 wrong for OC. thats how confident i was after finishing this section, but oh well my score isnt great.
Honestly i think even destroyer is overkill but make sure you do at least twice of them. memorize the roadmap.
i had almost no background OC but yeah i pulled average score 20.
make sure you watch Chad and take careful notes
then do destroyer multiple times. at first i only got 30% right but later, i get like 99% of them right. Make sure to memorize the roadmap of destroyer!
BUT dont just memorize.. make sure you understand. thats more efficient and easier to memorize and you will never forget!
here is my crappy breakdown with crappy score but i hope i could just contribute at least a little to SDNers great DAT score in the future 🙂🙂
let me know if you guys have any questions, i will be glad to answer them and help anyone who were in my shoes
( BIO/ GC/ OC/ TS/ PAT/ RC/ QR/ AA)
Topscore 1 ( 17/ 19/ 20/ 19/ 21/ 20 / 29 / 21 )
topscore 2 ( 18/ 21/ 25/ 21 / NO/ 19 / 26/ 22)
Topscore 3(18/ 28/ 21/ 21/ NO/ 20/ 30 / 23 )
*Topscore PAT sucks
