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Hey guys! I just took the DAT for the second time and I don't really know what to make of my scores. I was contemplating whether to put up my scores on here or not just because of how impressive all the other ones are. But anyway, its worth a shot. I took the DAT for the first time on 6/3/13 and got demolished by it. I prepared for it for 2-months and I just had a breakdown during my test. My first scores were...
PA 19 (69.4%)
QR 15 (48.9%)
RC 15 (13.7%)
Bio 14 (15.0%) Embarrassing
GC 18 (51.8 %)
OC 17 (51.8%)
TS 16 (40.1%)
AA 16 (37.7%)
I was devastated by these scores and was seriously considering giving up. I have really bad test anxiety and my head was everywhere during it. After a couple of weeks I got back at it and started studying again. I was using all of the materials suggested on here (Destroyer, Chad's, Cliff's etc) and I added Bootcamp the second time around. After 3-months of studying I took the test for the second time today and my scores are.....
PA 22 (90.9%) +3
QR 15 (34.0%) no change
RC 23 (90.4%) +8
no idea how!
Bio 17 (46.8%) So frustrated by this score
GC 20 (75.5 %) +2
OC 18 (55.2%) +1 really disappointed here
TS 18 (59.4%) +2
AA 19 (72.0%) +3
PA 22 (Crack DAT, Bootcamp)
This is by far my strongest area. I didn't really practice much on this. I was really nervous last time and ran out of time. I just refined my strategy a bit and I'm happy overall. Keyholes and TFE were harder than Crack DAT but everything else was the same. Bootcamp is a very good representation of the whole PA section.
QR 15 (Destroyer, Bootcamp, Chad's, Crack DAT)
I actually like math and am pretty good at it. For some reason word problems just kill me. I did plenty of practice problems using Destroyer Math but I just never had a good understanding of some of the material and this clearly showed. The most important thing in this section is timing and marking questions. I ran out of time by spending too much time on problems. I will forever hate this section.
Reading Comprehension 23 (Crack DAT, Bootcamp)
Hahahahah. This score just makes me laugh. A combination of switching methods and exposure I knew I would get a better score than 15 this time but a 23 would have never crossed my mind. The first time I tried to actually read the articles and then answer the questions and obviously that didn't work too well. This time I started off by reading all of the questions first and then reading the passage. I was able to pick out answers right away and just go to the question and answer it. Luck was on my side as well as my articles were on material that I was pretty familiar with. One was on Genetic defects, Prions and Fiber optics. Not very wordy and all of them just made sense. I'm beyond happy with this score.
Biology 17 (Cliff's, Ferrali's Notes, Barrons AP, some Destroyer)
This score makes me sick. I spent the most time preparing for this section and I am very disappointed. I felt comfortable with this section and I was looking forward to it. I could honestly say I read Cliff's 3 times and I had a very good understanding of it. I supplemented Cliff's with Ferralis notes and Barron's when I didn't understand Cliff's. You would think that they would test you on important material like reproduction, Respiration, Animal Development etc.. but I had one question from each of those. I wasn't really comfortable with Taxonomy and this killed me. I had 4 or 5 questions on Taxonomy and 2 on Plants which were very specific. Anyways, this section sucked.
GC 20 (Chad's, Destroyer, Bootcamp)
This section was very fair. I thought I scored higher. I went through chad's twice and destroyer once. No random questions. Chad's and destroyer is plenty if you understand all of it.
OC 18 (Chad's, Destroyer (roadmaps), Bootcamp)
Again, very frustrated at this section. I knew all of the reactions including the roadmaps from Destroyer. The problem was I probably had 10 reactions and the rest were conceptual stuff. Caught me off guard but it was my fault. I focused a lot more on the reactions rather than all of the details. Test was fair and doable. I narrowed down 10 questions to two answers but I must of guessed wrong on most of those.
Like I said, these scores are not what you're going to find in this forum but I'm fairly happy with them. I am very nervous about my QR section. Let me know what you guys think. This forum has been the best resource in trying to figure out everything about the DAT.
PA 19 (69.4%)
QR 15 (48.9%)
RC 15 (13.7%)
Bio 14 (15.0%) Embarrassing
GC 18 (51.8 %)
OC 17 (51.8%)
TS 16 (40.1%)
AA 16 (37.7%)
I was devastated by these scores and was seriously considering giving up. I have really bad test anxiety and my head was everywhere during it. After a couple of weeks I got back at it and started studying again. I was using all of the materials suggested on here (Destroyer, Chad's, Cliff's etc) and I added Bootcamp the second time around. After 3-months of studying I took the test for the second time today and my scores are.....
PA 22 (90.9%) +3
QR 15 (34.0%) no change
RC 23 (90.4%) +8
no idea how!Bio 17 (46.8%) So frustrated by this score
GC 20 (75.5 %) +2
OC 18 (55.2%) +1 really disappointed here
TS 18 (59.4%) +2
AA 19 (72.0%) +3
PA 22 (Crack DAT, Bootcamp)
This is by far my strongest area. I didn't really practice much on this. I was really nervous last time and ran out of time. I just refined my strategy a bit and I'm happy overall. Keyholes and TFE were harder than Crack DAT but everything else was the same. Bootcamp is a very good representation of the whole PA section.
QR 15 (Destroyer, Bootcamp, Chad's, Crack DAT)
I actually like math and am pretty good at it. For some reason word problems just kill me. I did plenty of practice problems using Destroyer Math but I just never had a good understanding of some of the material and this clearly showed. The most important thing in this section is timing and marking questions. I ran out of time by spending too much time on problems. I will forever hate this section.
Reading Comprehension 23 (Crack DAT, Bootcamp)
Hahahahah. This score just makes me laugh. A combination of switching methods and exposure I knew I would get a better score than 15 this time but a 23 would have never crossed my mind. The first time I tried to actually read the articles and then answer the questions and obviously that didn't work too well. This time I started off by reading all of the questions first and then reading the passage. I was able to pick out answers right away and just go to the question and answer it. Luck was on my side as well as my articles were on material that I was pretty familiar with. One was on Genetic defects, Prions and Fiber optics. Not very wordy and all of them just made sense. I'm beyond happy with this score.
Biology 17 (Cliff's, Ferrali's Notes, Barrons AP, some Destroyer)
This score makes me sick. I spent the most time preparing for this section and I am very disappointed. I felt comfortable with this section and I was looking forward to it. I could honestly say I read Cliff's 3 times and I had a very good understanding of it. I supplemented Cliff's with Ferralis notes and Barron's when I didn't understand Cliff's. You would think that they would test you on important material like reproduction, Respiration, Animal Development etc.. but I had one question from each of those. I wasn't really comfortable with Taxonomy and this killed me. I had 4 or 5 questions on Taxonomy
and 2 on Plants which were very specific. Anyways, this section sucked. GC 20 (Chad's, Destroyer, Bootcamp)
This section was very fair. I thought I scored higher. I went through chad's twice and destroyer once. No random questions. Chad's and destroyer is plenty if you understand all of it.
OC 18 (Chad's, Destroyer (roadmaps), Bootcamp)
Again, very frustrated at this section. I knew all of the reactions including the roadmaps from Destroyer. The problem was I probably had 10 reactions and the rest were conceptual stuff. Caught me off guard but it was my fault. I focused a lot more on the reactions rather than all of the details. Test was fair and doable. I narrowed down 10 questions to two answers but I must of guessed wrong on most of those.
Like I said, these scores are not what you're going to find in this forum but I'm fairly happy with them. I am very nervous about my QR section. Let me know what you guys think. This forum has been the best resource in trying to figure out everything about the DAT.
