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Here is what I got today 10/1/07:
Bio 19
Chem 19
Orgo 17
PAT 16
RC 16
QR 12
TS 18
AA 17
Bio:
I thought it was very straight forward, I had the FRAP question, just guessed on it, I even researched prior to taking the DAT but that research didn't help. Everything was really pretty easy, nothing tricky. One picture of some cells that you had to identify, the rest just basic BIO questions.
Chem:
Again straight forward, not too many calculations, one or two with answers already setup for you.
OChem:
Not bad but I don't know what happened on the time, with 4 questions left, I checked the time (about 2 minutes remaining), answered that question, clicked next and before I could even answer the question the time up window popped up and the PAT started. I don't think it cut me off but I either read the time wrong or took longer than I thought I did on that question, so I didn't even get to answer the last 3 questions. 😡
PAT:
The time ending early on Orgo really starteled me and PAT went down hill quick. I couldn't stop thinking about the stupid OChem time issue and I couldn't concentrate on the PAT. I used crack the DAT PAT and never scored lower than a 19 on 6 tests, I wasn't worried at all on this section over any other section on the DAT, but I knew things were not going well because I couldn't concentrate on the first 20 problems or so. Then I setteled down and I think I did well for the rest of the PAT, I had no time left over and on ALL my crack dat pat tests I had a little time left over to check marked questions.
Took my 15min break, tried to relax, got a drink and ate a candy bar, tried to forget about Orgo and PAT.
Reading:
I had the Justince/tone passage that everyone was talking about, I was scoring never lower than 19s and 20s on my practice tests so I am not sure what happened here. Time wasn't really an issue, I had to quess on the last 2 questions of the reading section but I stuck pretty close to 20min/passage.
Math:
My goal was a 15, this is by far my worst area especially when you throw in the time factor. My pretest range was 15-17 consistantly but the real dat had very few simple algebra problems, the bulk of the problems were word problems. Still I was expecting better than a 12 😕
Here was my study routine:
First I will say that I don't take timed/standardized tests well at all and I have been putting the DAT off for almost 2 years because of it. It really isn't that bad if you put the time in, even for a guy who sucks at taking timed tests like me.
I moved away from my family/friends and literally have been in isolation for the past 6 weeks, before that, for about 4 weeks I casually read kaplan material about 3-4 hours/day on average.
When I say isolation though, I really haven't left the house once in that time. I have been living off of instant oatmeal, adderall, and frozen dinners this entire time.
I have been putting in 12-15 hours/day probably averaging closer to 12 hours taking out time for eating and phone calls to my wife and kids.
My biggest mistake in this routine was not picking up and reading destroyer until early last week. I had the idea that I really needed to understand and refresh my memory on EVERYTHING. I am just too slow a reader and that took too much of my time. Going through destroyer over and over was the biggest help for me, I only made it through each section about 2.5 times though. That is answering each question and going over each answer in detail, then reading up on the topics I wasn't very familiar with. I feel like if I had 2 more weeks at this rate with only destroyer I could have brought my science scores up to the 20's pretty easy. Every time I went through it I was more confident and felt I understood these topics more and they became more concreted into my brain.
I used destroyer, all my college textbooks, Crack DAT PAT, Achiever, Top Score, Princeton Review, Kaplan course material with all subject tests etc.
I know my scores are not competitive so I plan to retake in Jan, I know barring a miracle my chances for 2008 are no good but I will be an instate res. soon which will help my odds and I know I can improve on my next DAT.
Good luck to you guys for 2008!
Bio 19
Chem 19
Orgo 17
PAT 16
RC 16
QR 12
TS 18
AA 17
Bio:
I thought it was very straight forward, I had the FRAP question, just guessed on it, I even researched prior to taking the DAT but that research didn't help. Everything was really pretty easy, nothing tricky. One picture of some cells that you had to identify, the rest just basic BIO questions.
Chem:
Again straight forward, not too many calculations, one or two with answers already setup for you.
OChem:
Not bad but I don't know what happened on the time, with 4 questions left, I checked the time (about 2 minutes remaining), answered that question, clicked next and before I could even answer the question the time up window popped up and the PAT started. I don't think it cut me off but I either read the time wrong or took longer than I thought I did on that question, so I didn't even get to answer the last 3 questions. 😡
PAT:
The time ending early on Orgo really starteled me and PAT went down hill quick. I couldn't stop thinking about the stupid OChem time issue and I couldn't concentrate on the PAT. I used crack the DAT PAT and never scored lower than a 19 on 6 tests, I wasn't worried at all on this section over any other section on the DAT, but I knew things were not going well because I couldn't concentrate on the first 20 problems or so. Then I setteled down and I think I did well for the rest of the PAT, I had no time left over and on ALL my crack dat pat tests I had a little time left over to check marked questions.
Took my 15min break, tried to relax, got a drink and ate a candy bar, tried to forget about Orgo and PAT.
Reading:
I had the Justince/tone passage that everyone was talking about, I was scoring never lower than 19s and 20s on my practice tests so I am not sure what happened here. Time wasn't really an issue, I had to quess on the last 2 questions of the reading section but I stuck pretty close to 20min/passage.
Math:
My goal was a 15, this is by far my worst area especially when you throw in the time factor. My pretest range was 15-17 consistantly but the real dat had very few simple algebra problems, the bulk of the problems were word problems. Still I was expecting better than a 12 😕
Here was my study routine:
First I will say that I don't take timed/standardized tests well at all and I have been putting the DAT off for almost 2 years because of it. It really isn't that bad if you put the time in, even for a guy who sucks at taking timed tests like me.
I moved away from my family/friends and literally have been in isolation for the past 6 weeks, before that, for about 4 weeks I casually read kaplan material about 3-4 hours/day on average.
When I say isolation though, I really haven't left the house once in that time. I have been living off of instant oatmeal, adderall, and frozen dinners this entire time.
I have been putting in 12-15 hours/day probably averaging closer to 12 hours taking out time for eating and phone calls to my wife and kids.
My biggest mistake in this routine was not picking up and reading destroyer until early last week. I had the idea that I really needed to understand and refresh my memory on EVERYTHING. I am just too slow a reader and that took too much of my time. Going through destroyer over and over was the biggest help for me, I only made it through each section about 2.5 times though. That is answering each question and going over each answer in detail, then reading up on the topics I wasn't very familiar with. I feel like if I had 2 more weeks at this rate with only destroyer I could have brought my science scores up to the 20's pretty easy. Every time I went through it I was more confident and felt I understood these topics more and they became more concreted into my brain.
I used destroyer, all my college textbooks, Crack DAT PAT, Achiever, Top Score, Princeton Review, Kaplan course material with all subject tests etc.
I know my scores are not competitive so I plan to retake in Jan, I know barring a miracle my chances for 2008 are no good but I will be an instate res. soon which will help my odds and I know I can improve on my next DAT.
Good luck to you guys for 2008!
