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First of all I've been one of those typical lurkers on these forums for the past month, and have learned an incredible amount from reading break downs, so I thought it would only be fair to do one myself.
PAT- 24
QR- 18
RC- 24
Bio- 21
GC- 21
OC- 22
TS- 21
AA- 21
Overall this has been the most monotonous couple months ever, and I'm so glad to be done. In total I studied for around 6 and a half weeks. The first three weeks I was clueless on what to study so I read through the entire Kaplan Blue Book (DONT DO THIS!) and went back to my old Chem books from class for GC and OC. This was by far the least useful material that I used, and was an entire waste of time. After discovering SDN I bought Crack PAT, Chad's Videos, Cliff's Bio, and Destroyer. I never actually sat down and took a full length practice test. I would have liked to see a couple points higher in the Chem's or QR (which i feel hurt my score a bit), but in the end I'm fairly happy with my scores.
PAT- I had read a lot recently about key hole and pattern folding being much harder on the real DAT than CDP so I was a bit nervous going in, but in my opinion, every section was extremely similar to CDP. I was averaging 23-24 on Crack and did basically exactly the same.
QR- This section, for me, was just awful. I did up through Calc 3 in high school, but haven't had a math class since. I did 8 Math Destroyer tests but it just wasn't helpful for me. I literally skipped 15 questions, and paced myself so badly that I went back with like 8 minutes left and had to just start guessing. There were 2 word problems in which they gave, for example, the value of an adult and child ticket, and then I had to solve for how many of each were sold at the end of a day, but they didn't give me the total value, so there was absolutely no way to solve it. I may be looking at it wrong but it seemed like there was absolutely no way to solve them and the question was missing information...
RC- I didn't study for this section at all, and hadn't practiced it once. I got 2 really easy to read Bio passages and an annoying physics as the third. While a lot of people have said search and destroy doesn't work as well anymore on the DAT, it worked great for me. I read the first 3 paragraphs of each, and then went straight to answer questions. I think I had 2 tone questions in out of the 50, which made it really simple.
Bio- As I Bio major I figured I'd be OK on this section. I read Cliff's once and then scanned it for extra practice in my free time. I personally thought this section was tough. The questions were mostly covered by Cliffs, but I got a couple that were funky, and almost hard to tell what the question was asking. It was like when I read it, information that immediately came to mind was nowhere near what they were looking for. I had no plant or phylogeny questions though =)
GC- Watched Chad, then did destroyer once. For gen chem, I found destroyer to be complete overkill.
OC- Chad + Destroyer is a lethal combination, and is really all you need!
Please let me know if you have any questions that I can answer!
PAT- 24
QR- 18
RC- 24
Bio- 21
GC- 21
OC- 22
TS- 21
AA- 21
Overall this has been the most monotonous couple months ever, and I'm so glad to be done. In total I studied for around 6 and a half weeks. The first three weeks I was clueless on what to study so I read through the entire Kaplan Blue Book (DONT DO THIS!) and went back to my old Chem books from class for GC and OC. This was by far the least useful material that I used, and was an entire waste of time. After discovering SDN I bought Crack PAT, Chad's Videos, Cliff's Bio, and Destroyer. I never actually sat down and took a full length practice test. I would have liked to see a couple points higher in the Chem's or QR (which i feel hurt my score a bit), but in the end I'm fairly happy with my scores.
PAT- I had read a lot recently about key hole and pattern folding being much harder on the real DAT than CDP so I was a bit nervous going in, but in my opinion, every section was extremely similar to CDP. I was averaging 23-24 on Crack and did basically exactly the same.
QR- This section, for me, was just awful. I did up through Calc 3 in high school, but haven't had a math class since. I did 8 Math Destroyer tests but it just wasn't helpful for me. I literally skipped 15 questions, and paced myself so badly that I went back with like 8 minutes left and had to just start guessing. There were 2 word problems in which they gave, for example, the value of an adult and child ticket, and then I had to solve for how many of each were sold at the end of a day, but they didn't give me the total value, so there was absolutely no way to solve it. I may be looking at it wrong but it seemed like there was absolutely no way to solve them and the question was missing information...
RC- I didn't study for this section at all, and hadn't practiced it once. I got 2 really easy to read Bio passages and an annoying physics as the third. While a lot of people have said search and destroy doesn't work as well anymore on the DAT, it worked great for me. I read the first 3 paragraphs of each, and then went straight to answer questions. I think I had 2 tone questions in out of the 50, which made it really simple.
Bio- As I Bio major I figured I'd be OK on this section. I read Cliff's once and then scanned it for extra practice in my free time. I personally thought this section was tough. The questions were mostly covered by Cliffs, but I got a couple that were funky, and almost hard to tell what the question was asking. It was like when I read it, information that immediately came to mind was nowhere near what they were looking for. I had no plant or phylogeny questions though =)
GC- Watched Chad, then did destroyer once. For gen chem, I found destroyer to be complete overkill.
OC- Chad + Destroyer is a lethal combination, and is really all you need!
Please let me know if you have any questions that I can answer!
