DAT Breakdown Crack the DAT 1/16/15

[lusketct]

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Maybe I am just an outlier here but I have thought Crack the DAT Ultimate Bundle Package was a great investment. I have always believed train harder in practice so that the game or in this case the actual DAT is easier. I am sure others have different opinions and I am in no way saying this is the best or only way to prepare for the DAT just voicing my opinion.

I studied over winter break for three weeks: two using KBB and Chads videos/quizzes then one using practice tests. Unfortunately I was one of the unlucky people this year that contracted the flu so I was bed ridden for one of weeks of break which gave me three instead of four weeks to study.

Crack the DAT: The online nature and timing was great. The PAT, reading (longer passages) and math sections were spot on with the real DAT. With the PAT the angles and hole punch were the toughest sections and I thought the sciences, although detailed, matched up well with Ferali's Biology notes I used from DAT BootCamp. Gen Chem was by far the most difficult for me because it was the farthest in the past, Chads Videos were vital. What I found helped for Orgo was the ACS Practice Book I put in a week of hard work with that and made sure I knew every topic for the ACS so when I started studying for the DAT I could just use the KBB as a review. My DAT was on 1/16/15.

Recommendations: Study everything at the same time, take the test when everything is fresh in your head like right after you finish organic, simulate the test environment for every practice test you take (time, transparency sheets and markers), wear comfortable clothes and shoes on test day, during the tutorial at the beginning write out the tic tac toe diagrams for the hole punch and the chart for cube counting,

Materials Used: Ferali’s, Chads Videos, KBB, ACS Orgo and Gen Chem, Crack the DAT test software, DAT Bootcamp free practice test and the ADA 2007 & 2009 tests.


Baseline Free on Campus Kaplan Test:

B: 18 GC: 16 OC:17 RC: 17 QR: 20 PAT: 21

TS: 17 AA: 18

After two hard weeks of studying

Kaplan Book Test

B: 21 GC: 17 OC: 20 RC: 18 QR: 23 PAT: 20

TS: 20 AA: 20


Crack the DAT:

Test 1

B: 19 GC: 18 OC:29 RC: 19 QR: 22 PAT: 20

TS: 20 AA: 21

Test 2

B: 19 GC: 21 OC: 25 RC: 20 QR: 21 PAT: 21

TS: 21 AA: 21

Test 3

B: 20 GC: 17 OC: 21 RC: 20 QR: 29 PAT: 22

TS: 19 AA: 21

Test 4

B: 21 GC: 18 OC: 21 RC: 21 QR: 25 PAT: 21

TS: 20 AA: 21

Test 5

B: 21 GC: 17 OC: 23 RC: 18 QR: 23 PAT: 23

TS: 21 AA: 20


Here are my scores from other practice tests that I took after finishing Crack the DAT.

DAT Boot camp Free Test:

B: 25 GC:21 OC:27 RC: 20 QR: 21 PAT: 21

TS:22 AA: 23

ADA 2007

B:22 GC:25 OC:30 RC:22 QR:25 PAT:23

TS:24 AA: 25

ADA 2009

B: 21 GC: 22 OC: 18 RC: N/A QR: 22 PAT: N/A

TS: 20 AA:N/A


REAL DAT Scores:

B: 20 GC: 20 OC: 22 RC: 22 QR: 23 PAT: 24

TS: 20 AA: 21

If you have any questions feel free to DM me or post and I will answer asap.

 

[Weakfart]

Good job. Nice PAT!

 

[GrillKing]

Maybe I am just an outlier here but I have thought Crack the DAT Ultimate Bundle Package was a great investment. I have always believed train harder in practice so that the game or in this case the actual DAT is easier. I am sure others have different opinions and I am in no way saying this is the best or only way to prepare for the DAT just voicing my opinion.

REAL DAT Scores:

B: 20 GC: 20 OC: 22 RC: 22 QR: 23 PAT: 24

TS: 20 AA: 21

If you have any questions feel free to DM me or post and I will answer asap.

Congrats. I'm assuming you are naturally a very gifted test taker considering you spent only 2 weeks to prepare for the exam

 

[lusketct]

Thank you and I would say I am the odd ball that can read or see something once or twice and usually it remember it. So yes typically I do not have to study very long. But the practice tests were still studying in my mind because after each I went back and wrote down the answer, why I got it wrong and how I was going to make sure I remember it for next time (acronyms, sayings ect..).

So I took a 4 week study schedule and condensed and modified it into a 2 week schedule that used Chads videos, KBB and the cliffs AP biology book. It also gave me a day to review any of Chad's quizzes that I felt like I needed to review.

If anyone is interested in the schedule I used I can DM it to you.

 

[GrillKing]

Thank you and I would say I am the odd ball that can read or see something once or twice and usually it remember it. So yes typically I do not have to study very long. But the practice tests were still studying in my mind because after each I went back and wrote down the answer, why I got it wrong and how I was going to make sure I remember it for next time (acronyms, sayings ect..).

So I took a 4 week study schedule and condensed and modified it into a 2 week schedule that used Chads videos, KBB and the cliffs AP biology book. It also gave me a day to review any of Chad's quizzes that I felt like I needed to review.

If anyone is interested in the schedule I used I can DM it to you.

That would be great if you could message it or post it on this thread.

 

[lusketct]

Sorry for the delay I have had a hectic week.

Here is the three week study plan. It is split into a two sections (one with Chad's videos and one with just book work) for the first two weeks. To accomplish this schedule in three weeks you must do two days worth of work on the schedule each day. So two days from each section on the schedule. Then the last week is completely practice tests and review.

Hope this helps.

 

[msuspartan313]

I feel like the DAT Bootcamp TFE generator is much easier than the ones that are in the actual DAT BC perceptual ability exams. Can anyone shed some light on which ones are more representative of the actual DAT?