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So i took my DAT on wednesday!! I tried posting this breakdown on thursday but right as I hit submit, it logged me out and then my post was gone🙁
So my scores are:
Bio: 19
GC: 21
OC:19
RC:20
QR:20
PAT:20
TS:20
AA:20
Overall I am very happy with my scores. During my break I thought i was failing the exam. The Bio was ridiculously hard in my opinion, so i thought i was going to get like a 16 or 17 in bio..
I studied for about 2 months every day without taking any days off. I studied from 8am-5pm, with a lunch break. Went to the gym almost every day around 5:30. I can't really study at night so I just went over some notes or flashcards before i went to sleep. I always went to sleep early (~10pm). I don't really mind studying so it was like i was dying the last 2 months, but i definitely was burned out toward the end. The day before the exam i had a nervous breakdown and thought i might fail and then the last 2 months had been for nothing. i cried all day... i know kinda weird😕
So the morning of the exam I was sooo nervous.. I was shaking and freaking out and in the prometric center i almost thought i was gonna faint.. Sooo glad to be done now😀
BIO: This section was sooo hard in my opinion.. I studied so much and tried to learn every little detail. Based on what other people had said, i thought that it wouldn't be so detailed.. Well my questions were VERY detailed. I think on 2 questions i wasn't even sure what they were asking.. It wasn't just straight up factual knowledge.. i had to read the question a few times to be sure what they were asking.. my advice would be to not leave out any details and don't think the Qs on Topscore or achiever are redic. hard.. bc on the real test they were actually similar..
GCHEM: This is the section I was most afraid of because I tend to make stupid calculation mistakes. The calculations they required were very simple though. Most questions didn't even require calculations, just setting up the equation.. I was a little thrown off my some conceptual questions though. All i can suggest is do as MANY practice problems as possible!! Destroyer and LOTS of pracice exams!!
OC: I am completely disappointed in my orgo score. This is my favorite and strongest section!! Guess not.. There were 2 reactions that i have NEVER seen before in my life! How weird right?? Maybe i had bad professor or something idk, but i was staring at it and absolutely nothing came to mind.. Then there were 2 questions on the same concept, which i thankfully knew, but still tricky.. Then i thought i was getting an easy question about SN1 but the choices were all pretty much the same and all rules i knew about SN1 didn't apply to the choices... overall i thought it was tricky🙁
RC: I almost gave up during this section. My eyes started hurting so much and as i was reading i was seeing lines double.. it was so frustrating that i wanted to cry. My passages weren't crazy hard but not easy either. I absolutely hate how most practice material doesn't have questions with "tone of author", etc.. because i had plenty of those on the real exam.
QR: time was an issue. I had some crazy "find the area" of some weird structure question... I had no clue... other than that most questions were just like math destroyer..
PAT: dont really know what to say. i was never amazing at it, but never bad at it either.. I guess i could've done better.. hole punching was harder than ever.. angles weren't too bad actually.. and freaking cube counting was kinda hard!! of course they found a way to make the easiest one hard.. it was just difficult to imagine where some cubes were, etc..
Practice Scores:
Topscore #1: Bio:18 GC:19 OC:19
Topscore #2:Bio:19 GC:18 OC:18
Topscore#3: Bio:19 GC:18 OC:25
I also did achiever and my scores were around 16,17,18
I did Barron and my scores were around the 20's.
Kaplan my scores were in 20s.
I am applying to 11 schools: Nova, UF, NYU, BU, Temple, Tufts, Louisville, UoP, North Carolina, UMDNJ, Pittsburgh
I am worried about not getting into UoP or North Carolina or BU?? What do you guys think my chances are?
My AADSAS Gpa: 3.48
So my scores are:
Bio: 19
GC: 21
OC:19
RC:20
QR:20
PAT:20
TS:20
AA:20
Overall I am very happy with my scores. During my break I thought i was failing the exam. The Bio was ridiculously hard in my opinion, so i thought i was going to get like a 16 or 17 in bio..
I studied for about 2 months every day without taking any days off. I studied from 8am-5pm, with a lunch break. Went to the gym almost every day around 5:30. I can't really study at night so I just went over some notes or flashcards before i went to sleep. I always went to sleep early (~10pm). I don't really mind studying so it was like i was dying the last 2 months, but i definitely was burned out toward the end. The day before the exam i had a nervous breakdown and thought i might fail and then the last 2 months had been for nothing. i cried all day... i know kinda weird😕
So the morning of the exam I was sooo nervous.. I was shaking and freaking out and in the prometric center i almost thought i was gonna faint.. Sooo glad to be done now😀
BIO: This section was sooo hard in my opinion.. I studied so much and tried to learn every little detail. Based on what other people had said, i thought that it wouldn't be so detailed.. Well my questions were VERY detailed. I think on 2 questions i wasn't even sure what they were asking.. It wasn't just straight up factual knowledge.. i had to read the question a few times to be sure what they were asking.. my advice would be to not leave out any details and don't think the Qs on Topscore or achiever are redic. hard.. bc on the real test they were actually similar..
GCHEM: This is the section I was most afraid of because I tend to make stupid calculation mistakes. The calculations they required were very simple though. Most questions didn't even require calculations, just setting up the equation.. I was a little thrown off my some conceptual questions though. All i can suggest is do as MANY practice problems as possible!! Destroyer and LOTS of pracice exams!!
OC: I am completely disappointed in my orgo score. This is my favorite and strongest section!! Guess not.. There were 2 reactions that i have NEVER seen before in my life! How weird right?? Maybe i had bad professor or something idk, but i was staring at it and absolutely nothing came to mind.. Then there were 2 questions on the same concept, which i thankfully knew, but still tricky.. Then i thought i was getting an easy question about SN1 but the choices were all pretty much the same and all rules i knew about SN1 didn't apply to the choices... overall i thought it was tricky🙁
RC: I almost gave up during this section. My eyes started hurting so much and as i was reading i was seeing lines double.. it was so frustrating that i wanted to cry. My passages weren't crazy hard but not easy either. I absolutely hate how most practice material doesn't have questions with "tone of author", etc.. because i had plenty of those on the real exam.
QR: time was an issue. I had some crazy "find the area" of some weird structure question... I had no clue... other than that most questions were just like math destroyer..
PAT: dont really know what to say. i was never amazing at it, but never bad at it either.. I guess i could've done better.. hole punching was harder than ever.. angles weren't too bad actually.. and freaking cube counting was kinda hard!! of course they found a way to make the easiest one hard.. it was just difficult to imagine where some cubes were, etc..
Practice Scores:
Topscore #1: Bio:18 GC:19 OC:19
Topscore #2:Bio:19 GC:18 OC:18
Topscore#3: Bio:19 GC:18 OC:25
I also did achiever and my scores were around 16,17,18
I did Barron and my scores were around the 20's.
Kaplan my scores were in 20s.
I am applying to 11 schools: Nova, UF, NYU, BU, Temple, Tufts, Louisville, UoP, North Carolina, UMDNJ, Pittsburgh
I am worried about not getting into UoP or North Carolina or BU?? What do you guys think my chances are?
My AADSAS Gpa: 3.48
