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Bio 19
GC 20
OC 23
PAT 22
RC 17
QR 15
TS 20
AA 19
First and foremost i want to thank everyone on SDN for their advice and guidance. I wound never have made it this far without everyone's collective insight. Now on to my bittersweet analysis.
Bio: As many have said before me, Cliffs AP Bio is fantastic. I also used Kaplan BB to fill in the few parts Cliffs missed. I was actually surprised about my Bio score, it was my strongest subject on my practice tests and i never got below a 20.
GC: Kaplan and Destroyer. I did better than expected on this one. On my practice tests i never got above an 18. The test had more concepts than calculations which worked for me because calculations always nail me (See QR score)
OC: Much easier than i expected. Destroyer and Kaplan BB prepared me well for this one.
PAT: CDP is the best study material I bought hands down. I got the 10 test pack and scored 20, 21, 23, 22, 23, 26 and 22 on the first 7 tests. I really felt it prepared me well and with each test i saw improvment on my speed. The keyholes were harder on the DAT and i thought angles, cubes and holepunching were easier.
RC: Now on to the bad part, the second half of the test. I dont know what happend here. I was scoring a solid 20-21 on each of my practice tests in this section. I got a few tone questions as well as a bunch of "does this statment and this reason corelate?" type questions. I was really disapointed about this score but not nearly as much as....
QR: Sad, so so sad. What a horrible way to end an otherwise solid DAT. I am an "older" student having changed to the sciences late in the game, so its been about 10 years since ive done this kind of math. I realize now that i got a false sense of security because I was scoring 18s across the board on my practice tests. I figured this was good enough so i focused more of my studies on the sciences. I realize now that my practice tests had more algebra and geometry which are my strenghts. Unfortunatly i got a QR packed full of trig and word problems which are my weakness. I underestimated this section and now i am paying the price.
So tomorrow i will call up my schools of interest and see what they think. I figure 90% will tell me to retake. What do you guys think?
GC 20
OC 23
PAT 22
RC 17
QR 15
TS 20
AA 19
First and foremost i want to thank everyone on SDN for their advice and guidance. I wound never have made it this far without everyone's collective insight. Now on to my bittersweet analysis.
Bio: As many have said before me, Cliffs AP Bio is fantastic. I also used Kaplan BB to fill in the few parts Cliffs missed. I was actually surprised about my Bio score, it was my strongest subject on my practice tests and i never got below a 20.
GC: Kaplan and Destroyer. I did better than expected on this one. On my practice tests i never got above an 18. The test had more concepts than calculations which worked for me because calculations always nail me (See QR score)
OC: Much easier than i expected. Destroyer and Kaplan BB prepared me well for this one.
PAT: CDP is the best study material I bought hands down. I got the 10 test pack and scored 20, 21, 23, 22, 23, 26 and 22 on the first 7 tests. I really felt it prepared me well and with each test i saw improvment on my speed. The keyholes were harder on the DAT and i thought angles, cubes and holepunching were easier.
RC: Now on to the bad part, the second half of the test. I dont know what happend here. I was scoring a solid 20-21 on each of my practice tests in this section. I got a few tone questions as well as a bunch of "does this statment and this reason corelate?" type questions. I was really disapointed about this score but not nearly as much as....
QR: Sad, so so sad. What a horrible way to end an otherwise solid DAT. I am an "older" student having changed to the sciences late in the game, so its been about 10 years since ive done this kind of math. I realize now that i got a false sense of security because I was scoring 18s across the board on my practice tests. I figured this was good enough so i focused more of my studies on the sciences. I realize now that my practice tests had more algebra and geometry which are my strenghts. Unfortunatly i got a QR packed full of trig and word problems which are my weakness. I underestimated this section and now i am paying the price.
So tomorrow i will call up my schools of interest and see what they think. I figure 90% will tell me to retake. What do you guys think?
