Dat done. 1/17/10.

[Neil45]

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[beatsdre]

I wrote the American DAT today at the Burnaby prometric center here in British Columbia, Canada at Metrotown mall. I'm kinda disappointed with my scores (esp. QR); I think a lot of American schools have strict cut-offs regarding QR. I'm thinking of re-writing the American DAT sometime in May/June.

I'm also writing the Canadian DAT next month (which doesn't have QR or OC). However, it does have carving. If I do really well on the Canadian DAT, I probably won't even bother re-writing the American DAT and just use the Canadian scores to apply for American schools. For any Canadians on here, how did you order new carving blades? Mine is getting dull and I can't seem to find any ordering form for the blades on the CDA website.

Study materials:

For PAT, I used CDP which was very good practice. I scored on average 21-23. I did tests 1-9.

For the GC and OC, I used mainly Chad's videos and Destroyer (2007). I was expecting to do a lot better on OC; I must have made a lot of careless errors for OC. 🙁

Biology: I used mainly Destroyer and Barron's AP Biology. Destroyer was way overkill. I thought Barron's AP biology was excellent and an easy read. I loved their ecology section. I wished I would have used the Campbell Text, but I did not have enough time.

RC: I used Crack the DAT reading. CDR was nothing like the real thing. CDR focused too much on inference and tones. However, CDR did help me practice for timing.

QR: I used Math Destroyer. However, I studied math until the very end (foolish, I know). Had I spent more time, I definitely would have scored a lot higher. The QR was very basic high school math. Nothing too complicated.

PAT: 21 87.9%
QR: 15 47.2%
RC: 20 64.3%
Bio: 19 76.6%
GC: 23 95.4%
OC: 20 79.9%
TS: 20 85.2%
AA: 19 77.6%

Usually a 17 and below on sections like the PAT,RC, Sciences will be a flag; however, most of the time QR is overlooked. That being said, below a 16 QR, I would retake. I think you severly limit yourself to schools due to cutoffs. Sucks, since QR is so unimportant in may peoples eyes. At least you didn't get a 15 in the PAT,RC, Sciences otherwise your app would of been toast.

That being said, I think you'll do fine wiht a retake. Getting a 19/20 shows that you know the material and with a few weeks practice on QR, you'll ace it.

GL, and I definately suggest a retake.

 

[93geo]

would you say your scores from crack dat reading were similar to what you got on the real DAT?

 

[Neil45]

would you say your scores from crack dat reading were similar to what you got on the real DAT? I am currently using CDR for practice and it seems to me like a decent resource for practice.

No. I got mainly 16-17 on CDR. I was pleasantly surprised that I got 20 on the real thing. Alot of the questions on the real DAT were straightfoward; maybe 1-2 questions on tone and inferences.

 

[amalgamgrillz]

I wrote the American DAT today at the Burnaby prometric center here in British Columbia, Canada at Metrotown mall. I'm kinda disappointed with my scores (esp. QR); I think a lot of American schools have strict cut-offs regarding QR. I'm thinking of re-writing the American DAT sometime in May/June.

I'm also writing the Canadian DAT next month (which doesn't have QR or OC). However, it does have carving. If I do really well on the Canadian DAT, I probably won't even bother re-writing the American DAT and just use the Canadian scores to apply for American schools. For any Canadians on here, how did you order new carving blades? Mine is getting dull and I can't seem to find any ordering form for the blades on the CDA website.

I got extra blades at Lee Valley (I got the last 2 packs at the Coquitlam branch...they might have ordered more?). Lee Valley is the only place I've found the exact ones. Home depot, rona, michael's...none of them had it. Pretty sure you can order them online, though.

Cheers.

 

[Neil45]

I got extra blades at Lee Valley (I got the last 2 packs at the Coquitlam branch...they might have ordered more?). Lee Valley is the only place I've found the exact ones. Home depot, rona, michael's...none of them had it. Pretty sure you can order them online, though.

Cheers.

I just went to their website (http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,130&p=43332. Do you know the exact name of the blade? Thanks.