DAT completed june 2014

[devilsg30]

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Just finished my DAT:
Perceptual ability - 20
quantitative reasoning - 18
reading comprehension - 22
biology - 23
gen chemistry - 21
organic chemistry - 20
Total science- 21
Academic Average - 21

Overall I am happy, but while the test was ongoing I thought I was killing it so I am a little disappointed with the outcome.

For sciences I used the 2014 dat destroyer and felt it was very comprehensive. I didn't even look at another bio book and I felt it very prepared (make sure to carefully read the answers in the destroyer as a lot of the information was only written in the answers). I should have more carefully memorized the reaction maps that are in destroyer for orgo and for chemistry I found some questions very weirdly worded that threw me off.
Obviously there was a few questions i had never seen before and had to make an educated guess, but i don't think its possible to know every single thing
For PAT I used crack PAT and it was good for all the sections besides for hole punching. on my DAT the holes looked a different size and that again threw me off.
Math I used math destroyer and only had time to complete it once, felt it was very helpful, especially the information contained at the beginning of the book.
Reading comp I have always been a good reader and didn't need to practice that.
For my study habits i studied maybe 2 hours at night (I have a job) for probably two months and then went crazy for three weeks and put in a solid 8 - 10 hours a day (very little sleep). I definitely could have done more to study and prepare so leave yourself more time and spread it out more

Let me know what you guys think

 

[*Garam Masala*]

Solid scores...im sure youll get in somewhere. can you tell me what the NMR/IR questions were like (If you had any?) I kinda suck at that (like super terrible at them) so i just wanted to sort of gauge the level of difficulty i should be expecting.

congrats on your scores

 

[matty675]

Excellent work. Many people would kill to have those scores.

NMR/IR is all about practice. Memorize the IR peaks and chemical shifts and then do a lot of practice problems. There are certain peaks like alcohol, carbonyl and carboxylic acid that are just dead giveaways once you get the hang of it. Same goes for NMR.

 

[Dotoday]

Good job overall. No worries. You did well.

 

[Anselmian]

Solid scores...im sure youll get in somewhere. can you tell me what the NMR/IR questions were like (If you had any?) I kinda suck at that (like super terrible at them) so i just wanted to sort of gauge the level of difficulty i should be expecting.

congrats on your scores

On mine the only NMR questions I had were, "How many signals would this compound's CNMR produce?" and "what splitting patterns would this HNMR produce?" No IR, very basic, look for symmetry!

 

[customx]

Good job. I too had issues with the size of the holes in hole punching. I would consistently score 14 or 15/15 in all practice tests but I know I missed a few due to holes that were smaller than normal and like nothing I had seen before.

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