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First off, I want to thank everyone for being so driven in your studies. Discovering SDN has been a blessing in disguise despite the nerve wracking questions that are imposed on a daily basis! This is my second time have taken the test and hopefully the last!
For the breakdown, I studied about 3 hours a day for a month and even less the week before. It was kind of hard because I'm also working full time as a dental assistant so I'd get to my studies a little later in the day. Looking in retrospect, I feel destroyer really prepared me for ochem and kind of for gchem. Schaum's was a bit dense for me, but helped with the bio studying. I briefly skimmed the kaplan BB, but spent about a total of 2 days using it. I used Achiever and Topscore as a test bank of questions for the natural science and QR only (I didn't do any of the other sections). I knew from last year TS and Achiever should be taken with a grain of salt. TS and Achiever scores are not representative of your actual scores so don't freak out, or in some people's cases don't get too overconfident. I also used CDP for PAT review...worth every cent.
CDP Tests: (tests 1-10)
21, 21, 20, 18, 23, 22, 21, 21, 22, 23
Wish I did better on the PAT, but given that the keyholes were a heck of a lot harder than I expected, I'm satisfied. 🙂
Last year's scores/Current Scores
Bio: 17/19
Gchem: 18/19
OChem: 21/21
PAT: 17/21
RC: 18/21
QR: 19/19
TS: 18/19
AA: 18/20
I just graduated from Cal with a 3.1 GPA. My GPA is definitely the weakest part of my application and hope my DAT scores will at least give me a chance somewhere! I have a lot of community service hours, shadowing hours, surgical assisting hours (paid), and now dental assisting hours (paid), great letters of rec, basic life support certification, surgical assisting certification, and dental radiology license. I respect the SDN community the most amongst all the predents I know...you're opinions would mean a lot to me....what do you think my chances are? If you have any questions, feel free to post them up...as long as they aren't exam questions I'd be open to answering them to the best of my knowledge! 👍
For the breakdown, I studied about 3 hours a day for a month and even less the week before. It was kind of hard because I'm also working full time as a dental assistant so I'd get to my studies a little later in the day. Looking in retrospect, I feel destroyer really prepared me for ochem and kind of for gchem. Schaum's was a bit dense for me, but helped with the bio studying. I briefly skimmed the kaplan BB, but spent about a total of 2 days using it. I used Achiever and Topscore as a test bank of questions for the natural science and QR only (I didn't do any of the other sections). I knew from last year TS and Achiever should be taken with a grain of salt. TS and Achiever scores are not representative of your actual scores so don't freak out, or in some people's cases don't get too overconfident. I also used CDP for PAT review...worth every cent.
CDP Tests: (tests 1-10)
21, 21, 20, 18, 23, 22, 21, 21, 22, 23
Wish I did better on the PAT, but given that the keyholes were a heck of a lot harder than I expected, I'm satisfied. 🙂
Last year's scores/Current Scores
Bio: 17/19
Gchem: 18/19
OChem: 21/21
PAT: 17/21
RC: 18/21
QR: 19/19
TS: 18/19
AA: 18/20
I just graduated from Cal with a 3.1 GPA. My GPA is definitely the weakest part of my application and hope my DAT scores will at least give me a chance somewhere! I have a lot of community service hours, shadowing hours, surgical assisting hours (paid), and now dental assisting hours (paid), great letters of rec, basic life support certification, surgical assisting certification, and dental radiology license. I respect the SDN community the most amongst all the predents I know...you're opinions would mean a lot to me....what do you think my chances are? If you have any questions, feel free to post them up...as long as they aren't exam questions I'd be open to answering them to the best of my knowledge! 👍
