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Already posted my scores tonight but heres the breakdown!! hope it helps!!
24 BIO
25 GChem
28 Orgo
19 RC
20 QR
23 PA
26 TS
23 AA
Materials I used: Chad's, barrens AP bio, KBB, organic chemistry book, topscore, CDAT PAT, math destroyer
I took one day off after finals and hit it hard after that. Studied 9-10 hrs every day for the last five weeks which sounds like a lot but it actually went by very fast!! I cant believe its all done!! I took one full day off somewhere in the middle and a few nights off to hang out with friends. I woke up at 9:30 every day an started studying about 10:30 and just went the rest of the day and night with a few short breaks. I studied outside quite a bit becasue its just so much better than being cooped up inside!
One of my big suggestions would be to not do anything studying related the day before the exam. The day before mine I went to the beach and hung out with my friends all day. I did everything except think about the DAT!!
BIO: the bio section was, as everyone says, very random. I was pretty pissed going through it because there were a handful of questions that I was like WTF?!?!. Other than the few random ones, a good majority of them were fairly easy/basic questions that you should know as long as you use an AP book. I used barrens AP bio, which i really really liked! there are lots of questions at the end of every chapter and three 100 question exams on top of that. I went through twice. I am a bio major but was weak in photosynthesis/plants and barrens was definitely sufficient for what I saw on the exam. I didnt get any physio questions! WTF! kinda pissed about that! But other than that I would just say go with your first gut instinct on the crazy random ones.
Topscore Bio: 20,22,21
GChem: Only chads for Gen chem for me!! watched the videos once and took detailed notes, went through the notes three times over my study period, and went through the 185 questions three times. The real exam had hardly any calculations and I found chads to be more than enough.
Topscore: 20,22,21
Orgo: I used chads and my orgo book. I did the same for chads orgo as i did for gen chem (read notes 3x and chads questions 3x) and also read through my orgo book, which helped for the little stuff that chad didnt cover or covered poorly. I did memorize all the reactions from my orgo book but other than chads, I didnt actually do any practice questions. Knowing the concepts and the overall reactions was plenty!! all the reactions I saw were very basic. I also had some acid ranking questions.
20,24,22
RC: F**k RC. I hate reading and I hate RC. I had a lot of inference/tone questions on my first two passages (I would say at least half). Third passage I lucked out and had a topic I was very familiar with and could answer most of the questions w/out reading. That third passage saved my score. I dont really want to give to much advice because RC is definitely my weakpoint but all I can say is search and destroy would not have worked on my exam.
Topscore:21,21,21
QR: Im fine with a 20 I guess. I thought it was similar in difficulty to topscore. I went through math destroyer over a 2 day period and also did chad's math questions. Math was always my best subject in high school but I guess I just didn't put enough effort into it.
Topscore: 22,19,23
PAT: PAT has always been my bread and butter. I am fine with a 23 but going in I was hopin for higher based on how i was doing on topscore and CDAT PAT. It sucks to hear but it was actually a little harder than CDAT PAT. It was similar in difficulty except in every section there were at least two questions that I was like WTF?!?! compared to CDAT PAT where I didnt really find that. angles are similar to CDP (maybe 4 were comparing angles closer to 135-160 degrees which sucks), hole punching was similar again except for 3 folds I got that were more difficult than any CDP hole punch I came across (they were origami like)
My biggest suggestion.. GET CRACK DAT PAT. Kaplan is a joke compared to the real thing if that is all youre using.
Topscore: 23,28,28
CDP: 21,23,23,25,25,25,25,25,26
Hope the breakdown helps!!! Ive read a lot of them as guidance during my studying so I just thought Id give back to my fellow SDNers!!
24 BIO
25 GChem
28 Orgo
19 RC
20 QR
23 PA
26 TS
23 AA
Materials I used: Chad's, barrens AP bio, KBB, organic chemistry book, topscore, CDAT PAT, math destroyer
I took one day off after finals and hit it hard after that. Studied 9-10 hrs every day for the last five weeks which sounds like a lot but it actually went by very fast!! I cant believe its all done!! I took one full day off somewhere in the middle and a few nights off to hang out with friends. I woke up at 9:30 every day an started studying about 10:30 and just went the rest of the day and night with a few short breaks. I studied outside quite a bit becasue its just so much better than being cooped up inside!
One of my big suggestions would be to not do anything studying related the day before the exam. The day before mine I went to the beach and hung out with my friends all day. I did everything except think about the DAT!!
BIO: the bio section was, as everyone says, very random. I was pretty pissed going through it because there were a handful of questions that I was like WTF?!?!. Other than the few random ones, a good majority of them were fairly easy/basic questions that you should know as long as you use an AP book. I used barrens AP bio, which i really really liked! there are lots of questions at the end of every chapter and three 100 question exams on top of that. I went through twice. I am a bio major but was weak in photosynthesis/plants and barrens was definitely sufficient for what I saw on the exam. I didnt get any physio questions! WTF! kinda pissed about that! But other than that I would just say go with your first gut instinct on the crazy random ones.
Topscore Bio: 20,22,21
GChem: Only chads for Gen chem for me!! watched the videos once and took detailed notes, went through the notes three times over my study period, and went through the 185 questions three times. The real exam had hardly any calculations and I found chads to be more than enough.
Topscore: 20,22,21
Orgo: I used chads and my orgo book. I did the same for chads orgo as i did for gen chem (read notes 3x and chads questions 3x) and also read through my orgo book, which helped for the little stuff that chad didnt cover or covered poorly. I did memorize all the reactions from my orgo book but other than chads, I didnt actually do any practice questions. Knowing the concepts and the overall reactions was plenty!! all the reactions I saw were very basic. I also had some acid ranking questions.
20,24,22
RC: F**k RC. I hate reading and I hate RC. I had a lot of inference/tone questions on my first two passages (I would say at least half). Third passage I lucked out and had a topic I was very familiar with and could answer most of the questions w/out reading. That third passage saved my score. I dont really want to give to much advice because RC is definitely my weakpoint but all I can say is search and destroy would not have worked on my exam.
Topscore:21,21,21
QR: Im fine with a 20 I guess. I thought it was similar in difficulty to topscore. I went through math destroyer over a 2 day period and also did chad's math questions. Math was always my best subject in high school but I guess I just didn't put enough effort into it.
Topscore: 22,19,23
PAT: PAT has always been my bread and butter. I am fine with a 23 but going in I was hopin for higher based on how i was doing on topscore and CDAT PAT. It sucks to hear but it was actually a little harder than CDAT PAT. It was similar in difficulty except in every section there were at least two questions that I was like WTF?!?! compared to CDAT PAT where I didnt really find that. angles are similar to CDP (maybe 4 were comparing angles closer to 135-160 degrees which sucks), hole punching was similar again except for 3 folds I got that were more difficult than any CDP hole punch I came across (they were origami like)
My biggest suggestion.. GET CRACK DAT PAT. Kaplan is a joke compared to the real thing if that is all youre using.
Topscore: 23,28,28
CDP: 21,23,23,25,25,25,25,25,26
Hope the breakdown helps!!! Ive read a lot of them as guidance during my studying so I just thought Id give back to my fellow SDNers!!
