It's finally over... hooray! What a relief. 
Here are my scores:
OC: 24
GC: 22
Bio: 21
PAT: 19
Reading: 18
QR: 17
TS: 22
AA: 20
I have a 3.57 GPA as a Biology major, so I think I'm set for the application process. 😀
My cover of the test:
OC: Destroyer was definitely my best resource for this section, hands down. I used ACS as a supplemental resource to probe for what I didn't understand, and I think that ACS is a great supplement to destroyer. Keep in mind a lot of the ACS questions are a lot harder than the real thing, although it does help you really get the concepts down by doing their plethora of practice problems.
GC: Destroyer gen chem wasn't very much like this section, although it helped with understanding the core concepts needed. I think ACS helped me slightly more than destroyer for this section. The GC ACS questions were somewhat harder than the real thing. Topscore also helped quite a bit.
Bottom of the line: I truly believe that if you want to score in the 29s/30s for chems, you need to use your textbooks as one of your main resources. Furthermore it's a common trend on this forum that those who score that high on the chems use their textbooks. By Whateveryoulike's method, figure out what you don't understand in ACS, then read and take notes on related sections in the textbooks. I am happy with my scores, although I only used my textbooks occasionally. If you want to score in the mid 20s o chem and low-mid 20s g chem, then truly understanding Destroyer and ACS should do it for you. 😉
Bio: I'm really not sure what the best resource is for this section. Some of the knowledge I used to answer the questions came from Cliffs AP biology, although most of the knowledge used to answer questions came from my biology degree. I did think both cliffs and destroyer were really helpful though, with more emphasis on cliffs. For $10-15, it can't really be beat and is an invaluable resource. I went through destroyer biology three times, and compiled notes together from destroyer and cliffs, which totaled to 20 pages. If your like me, typing notes out for biology and organizing them helps a lot to force active learning.
PAT: I was really surprised by my score on this section. I was averaging in the 23s with 2 25s high in CDP. Having done CDP, pattern folding, cube counting, and angle ranking were all really easy. TFE was very slightly harder than CDP if you visualize rather than line count. I would highly recommend not practicing by line counting as you would cheat yourself. Rather look for key differences in the solutions, while visualizing, and eliminate answers until you get to one. Keyholes were a bit harder, but about half of the pattern folding was really hard (time sink problems) and the other half really similar to CDP. I think I probably missed a lot of pattern folding questions, and a few keyholes, hence my score. Also, the angle ranking was different from CDP in that about half of the problems were much easier than CDP, and half of the problems were the equivalent of CDP difficulty.
Reading: Topscore definitely nails the reading comprehension. Their passages are of about equivalent difficulty to the real thing; however, some questions on the real thing are a lot harder than topscore. There were a lot of questions asking was this correct in fact, or reason, or both. There were quite a few tone questions. There were quite a few questions asking is one of these statements correct, neither or both. I scored around 21 avg in topscore over 3 tests; however, I think the slight increase in difficulty and trouble sleeping the night before threw me off my game, although I'm not too disappointed with this score. Since I couldn't think straight at the time, I used straight up search and destroy for this section. Also, keep in mind that the passage skips to the top when you go to the next question. This occurs in every test center, so prepare for it.
Quantitative: This was my worst score, although I'm within cutoff range thankfully. Why did I score so low I wonder? I think there were multiple reasons. One reason was the lack of sleep. I normally function well with a low amount of sleep, although not so much 4 hours into a standardized test. Also, quantitative on the DAT seemed a lot harder than CDM. I was averaging 23s, with a few 24s and 25s in CDM. On the real DAT I only had 5 problems that weren't word problems.
Furthermore, every word problem was 3 lines or more, and worded quite awkwardly. CDM didn't seem every representative of my test version. However, some word problems were covered sufficiently by CDM for which I'll give them credit.
Here are my scores:
OC: 24
GC: 22
Bio: 21
PAT: 19
Reading: 18
QR: 17
TS: 22
AA: 20
I have a 3.57 GPA as a Biology major, so I think I'm set for the application process. 😀
My cover of the test:
OC: Destroyer was definitely my best resource for this section, hands down. I used ACS as a supplemental resource to probe for what I didn't understand, and I think that ACS is a great supplement to destroyer. Keep in mind a lot of the ACS questions are a lot harder than the real thing, although it does help you really get the concepts down by doing their plethora of practice problems.
GC: Destroyer gen chem wasn't very much like this section, although it helped with understanding the core concepts needed. I think ACS helped me slightly more than destroyer for this section. The GC ACS questions were somewhat harder than the real thing. Topscore also helped quite a bit.
Bottom of the line: I truly believe that if you want to score in the 29s/30s for chems, you need to use your textbooks as one of your main resources. Furthermore it's a common trend on this forum that those who score that high on the chems use their textbooks. By Whateveryoulike's method, figure out what you don't understand in ACS, then read and take notes on related sections in the textbooks. I am happy with my scores, although I only used my textbooks occasionally. If you want to score in the mid 20s o chem and low-mid 20s g chem, then truly understanding Destroyer and ACS should do it for you. 😉
Bio: I'm really not sure what the best resource is for this section. Some of the knowledge I used to answer the questions came from Cliffs AP biology, although most of the knowledge used to answer questions came from my biology degree. I did think both cliffs and destroyer were really helpful though, with more emphasis on cliffs. For $10-15, it can't really be beat and is an invaluable resource. I went through destroyer biology three times, and compiled notes together from destroyer and cliffs, which totaled to 20 pages. If your like me, typing notes out for biology and organizing them helps a lot to force active learning.
PAT: I was really surprised by my score on this section. I was averaging in the 23s with 2 25s high in CDP. Having done CDP, pattern folding, cube counting, and angle ranking were all really easy. TFE was very slightly harder than CDP if you visualize rather than line count. I would highly recommend not practicing by line counting as you would cheat yourself. Rather look for key differences in the solutions, while visualizing, and eliminate answers until you get to one. Keyholes were a bit harder, but about half of the pattern folding was really hard (time sink problems) and the other half really similar to CDP. I think I probably missed a lot of pattern folding questions, and a few keyholes, hence my score. Also, the angle ranking was different from CDP in that about half of the problems were much easier than CDP, and half of the problems were the equivalent of CDP difficulty.
Reading: Topscore definitely nails the reading comprehension. Their passages are of about equivalent difficulty to the real thing; however, some questions on the real thing are a lot harder than topscore. There were a lot of questions asking was this correct in fact, or reason, or both. There were quite a few tone questions. There were quite a few questions asking is one of these statements correct, neither or both. I scored around 21 avg in topscore over 3 tests; however, I think the slight increase in difficulty and trouble sleeping the night before threw me off my game, although I'm not too disappointed with this score. Since I couldn't think straight at the time, I used straight up search and destroy for this section. Also, keep in mind that the passage skips to the top when you go to the next question. This occurs in every test center, so prepare for it.
Quantitative: This was my worst score, although I'm within cutoff range thankfully. Why did I score so low I wonder? I think there were multiple reasons. One reason was the lack of sleep. I normally function well with a low amount of sleep, although not so much 4 hours into a standardized test. Also, quantitative on the DAT seemed a lot harder than CDM. I was averaging 23s, with a few 24s and 25s in CDM. On the real DAT I only had 5 problems that weren't word problems.
Furthermore, every word problem was 3 lines or more, and worded quite awkwardly. CDM didn't seem every representative of my test version. However, some word problems were covered sufficiently by CDM for which I'll give them credit.
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