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I am now all done! 
I studied with Kaplan Online, Destroyer, DAT Audio Learn, did a very quick read of Cliffs AP Bio, Crack DAT Pat, and SDN.
Biology- I thought a lot of the questions were quite easy. If you studied at all you will get them. I had a frapish question but apparently not the real thing as I did not get the Ethics question. Oh and I had 1 or was it 2 plant questions.
Chemistry- I thought I did well on the test but certainly was not expecting it to be my highest of the Science section. A few weeks ago I would have told you it would be my lowest score. I used DAT destroyer which really helped my Chem. I used kaplan as well, that really help. Mainly concepts, a few calculations. Pretty straight forward. There was one at the end I had marked and went back to if I had more time I would have gotten it, on my first run through the test I mis-read but time was up. I mean I had one marked so I had a shot it was the right one but a few more min's would have been nice.
O-Chem- Went through Destroyer once, all in 1 day. I am surprised by my score on this one. Really I did not study Ochem for more than 2 or 3 days, and I had the class over a year ago. So thats a nice surprise. It was pretty straight forward, there was one or two I had no clue, marked it and moved on. Also I thought people had said there were only 1 step reactions, there were 2 step reactions on the test. So starting material, first reactant, then second, then final product.
RC- I thought it was pretty easy, I first read the entire passage tried to do that kaplan mapping on the first one but never went back and read what I wrote down. Finished the first passage right on time with 40mins left, second passage I again read the entire thing, wrote down a few things thought it would help which it did not. Last passage I read the entire passage then moved onto the questions did not write down anything. The only practice test I took was the kaplan diag for this, so I only did 1...
QR- Well as most people say, you are pressed for time. A few I did not do anything for, random guess and move on. For the most part nothing was crazy complicated, I got a few % questions like a nCr or nPr ones, but not as straight forward. I dont know I could have done better on this section if I did any practicing at all. I mean I literally only did 2-3 hours of work studying for QR, so the score kinda shows. But overall im decently happy with it. Ohhh on this one, at the very end final question there was a really easy one, I read it with only a few seconds left, thought of the answer, moved the mouse to click the button and booom times up.
PAT- Well first off the angles I thought were MUCH easier than Crack DAT Pat, which made me happy. One of the Keyholes I could not find the answer for at all. I mean not at all, nothing close. Some of the patterns were kinda strange. By far the strangest section was the Hole Punching, On Crack DAT I would do really well on this section 14/15 and 15/15, but on the real thing the paper was a little different, like it had more edge to it if that makes sense. Anyway I think I got a few of these wrong for that reason. Cube counting was pretty straight forward. 1 of them looked pretty optical illusiony which threw me off, took me a minute to make sure I was viewing it correctly.
My Markers were perfect, they gave me 2 as well as 2 sheets. I used 1 marker and 1 sheet the entire time. It really worked well. The testing center in general was really nice, the people were nice. (Tempe, Arizona, next to AZ Mills Mall). I did not use the headphones, it really was not needed.
Scores
Section Score Percentile
PAT 20 %88.1
QR 17 %64
RC 22 %87.1
Bio 21 %91.8
Gchem 22 %89.5
Ochem 20 %80.9
TS 21 %92.4
AA 20 %85.1
I will edit this post as people have questions.
Note-This was better than I did on any kaplan full length test. Except math diagnostic where I got a 22...But that was the only math section I ever did.
All my stats are on PreDents, I would love feedback about which schools people thing are pretty well within reach.
I studied with Kaplan Online, Destroyer, DAT Audio Learn, did a very quick read of Cliffs AP Bio, Crack DAT Pat, and SDN.
Biology- I thought a lot of the questions were quite easy. If you studied at all you will get them. I had a frapish question but apparently not the real thing as I did not get the Ethics question. Oh and I had 1 or was it 2 plant questions.
Chemistry- I thought I did well on the test but certainly was not expecting it to be my highest of the Science section. A few weeks ago I would have told you it would be my lowest score. I used DAT destroyer which really helped my Chem. I used kaplan as well, that really help. Mainly concepts, a few calculations. Pretty straight forward. There was one at the end I had marked and went back to if I had more time I would have gotten it, on my first run through the test I mis-read but time was up. I mean I had one marked so I had a shot it was the right one but a few more min's would have been nice.
O-Chem- Went through Destroyer once, all in 1 day. I am surprised by my score on this one. Really I did not study Ochem for more than 2 or 3 days, and I had the class over a year ago. So thats a nice surprise. It was pretty straight forward, there was one or two I had no clue, marked it and moved on. Also I thought people had said there were only 1 step reactions, there were 2 step reactions on the test. So starting material, first reactant, then second, then final product.
RC- I thought it was pretty easy, I first read the entire passage tried to do that kaplan mapping on the first one but never went back and read what I wrote down. Finished the first passage right on time with 40mins left, second passage I again read the entire thing, wrote down a few things thought it would help which it did not. Last passage I read the entire passage then moved onto the questions did not write down anything. The only practice test I took was the kaplan diag for this, so I only did 1...
QR- Well as most people say, you are pressed for time. A few I did not do anything for, random guess and move on. For the most part nothing was crazy complicated, I got a few % questions like a nCr or nPr ones, but not as straight forward. I dont know I could have done better on this section if I did any practicing at all. I mean I literally only did 2-3 hours of work studying for QR, so the score kinda shows. But overall im decently happy with it. Ohhh on this one, at the very end final question there was a really easy one, I read it with only a few seconds left, thought of the answer, moved the mouse to click the button and booom times up.
PAT- Well first off the angles I thought were MUCH easier than Crack DAT Pat, which made me happy. One of the Keyholes I could not find the answer for at all. I mean not at all, nothing close. Some of the patterns were kinda strange. By far the strangest section was the Hole Punching, On Crack DAT I would do really well on this section 14/15 and 15/15, but on the real thing the paper was a little different, like it had more edge to it if that makes sense. Anyway I think I got a few of these wrong for that reason. Cube counting was pretty straight forward. 1 of them looked pretty optical illusiony which threw me off, took me a minute to make sure I was viewing it correctly.
My Markers were perfect, they gave me 2 as well as 2 sheets. I used 1 marker and 1 sheet the entire time. It really worked well. The testing center in general was really nice, the people were nice. (Tempe, Arizona, next to AZ Mills Mall). I did not use the headphones, it really was not needed.
Scores
Section Score Percentile
PAT 20 %88.1
QR 17 %64
RC 22 %87.1
Bio 21 %91.8
Gchem 22 %89.5
Ochem 20 %80.9
TS 21 %92.4
AA 20 %85.1
I will edit this post as people have questions.
Note-This was better than I did on any kaplan full length test. Except math diagnostic where I got a 22...But that was the only math section I ever did.
All my stats are on PreDents, I would love feedback about which schools people thing are pretty well within reach.
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