It feels like someone took a ton of weight off my shoulder. I have been reading people's breakdowns here since I started studying for my DAT. It helped out a lot. I just want to give back to the community by breaking down my study schedule and the materials I used.
Here is what I got on the DAT.
PAT 19 67.8%
QR 21 96.4%
RC 19 52.2% . Ethics passage. LONG.
Bio 20 88.0%
Gchem 21 87.0%
Ochem 23 94.4%
TS 21 91.6%
AA 21 93.4%
Kaplan Diagnostic 13
Kaplan Midterm 16
Kaplan Final 18
Kaplan Test 1 20
Kaplan Test 2 19
Kaplan Test 3 Didn't take
Achiever test 1: ochem 19 chem 19 QR 17
RC 14
Achiever test 2: ochem 19 chem 19 QR 16
RC 16
Achiever test 3: Chem and Ochem: didnt take
Bio: 20 RC: 18 RC 12
Topscore: Bio chem Ochem
1 21 20 21
2 20 19 20
3 21 19 20
Bio: Used Kaplan's WB and Barron's AP bio and half of destroyer bio. Know different types of DNA tests. Had like three questions on it. Taxonomy was a major topic and embryo of different animals. these are the topics that took me by surprise , the rest were pretty straightforward. I think Barron's Ap bio is sufficient. If i had covered the embryology and the "lab" chapter , I would probably have gotten a way higher score.
Chem: Two words. Chad's videos !!! Very conceptual. Hardly any calculations. If you know your concepts, you are good to go. Covered half of destroyer chem. But I think Kaplan's chem prepared me the most.
Ochem: Destroyer gets you ready for reactions, but for the very basics, cover kaplan ochem.
QR: A lot of word problems. Strategy I used is that I did all the easy ones first then went back and did all the long and hard ones. Acethedat QR is the best study tool for this section.
RC: Ethics passage. Although very long, 22 paragraphs, it wasn't boring to read. However, the questions were mostly tone ones. The other two passages were fairly easy though. This section is 10 times easier than achiever and a lot harder than topscore.
PAT: I was averaging 22 on CDP. Keyholes, Pattern folding is exactly like CDP. TFE is harder than CDP. Angles is a little easier than CDP. Hole punching is super easy, way easier than CDP. Cube counting, what can I say, count the cubes and pick the answer.
Conclusion:
Topscore, Destroyer and CDP are the best material to invest in. Hope this helps one person out there at least.
Time to go and party now.
Applying next year.
Here is what I got on the DAT.
PAT 19 67.8%
QR 21 96.4%
RC 19 52.2% . Ethics passage. LONG.
Bio 20 88.0%
Gchem 21 87.0%
Ochem 23 94.4%
TS 21 91.6%
AA 21 93.4%
Kaplan Diagnostic 13
Kaplan Midterm 16
Kaplan Final 18
Kaplan Test 1 20
Kaplan Test 2 19
Kaplan Test 3 Didn't take
Achiever test 1: ochem 19 chem 19 QR 17
RC 14
Achiever test 2: ochem 19 chem 19 QR 16
RC 16
Achiever test 3: Chem and Ochem: didnt take
Bio: 20 RC: 18 RC 12
Topscore: Bio chem Ochem
1 21 20 21
2 20 19 20
3 21 19 20
Bio: Used Kaplan's WB and Barron's AP bio and half of destroyer bio. Know different types of DNA tests. Had like three questions on it. Taxonomy was a major topic and embryo of different animals. these are the topics that took me by surprise , the rest were pretty straightforward. I think Barron's Ap bio is sufficient. If i had covered the embryology and the "lab" chapter , I would probably have gotten a way higher score.
Chem: Two words. Chad's videos !!! Very conceptual. Hardly any calculations. If you know your concepts, you are good to go. Covered half of destroyer chem. But I think Kaplan's chem prepared me the most.
Ochem: Destroyer gets you ready for reactions, but for the very basics, cover kaplan ochem.
QR: A lot of word problems. Strategy I used is that I did all the easy ones first then went back and did all the long and hard ones. Acethedat QR is the best study tool for this section.
RC: Ethics passage. Although very long, 22 paragraphs, it wasn't boring to read. However, the questions were mostly tone ones. The other two passages were fairly easy though. This section is 10 times easier than achiever and a lot harder than topscore.
PAT: I was averaging 22 on CDP. Keyholes, Pattern folding is exactly like CDP. TFE is harder than CDP. Angles is a little easier than CDP. Hole punching is super easy, way easier than CDP. Cube counting, what can I say, count the cubes and pick the answer.
Conclusion:
Topscore, Destroyer and CDP are the best material to invest in. Hope this helps one person out there at least.
Time to go and party now.
Applying next year.
