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Bio 21
GC 21
OC 22
PAT 21
RC 18
QR 21
TS 22
AA 21

All I have to say is everything was much easier then destroyer and achievers tests are a joke. So hard compared to the real thing ( scores below). Math was much easier finished with 10 min left. Pat was much easier then achiever and crack dat, but its still pat so i am sure I missed some angels and tfe but i finished with 18 min left... I did kaplan class and those tests were closest. Just study a lot but not for too long or you will start to forget stuff. I studied since first week of may serious 6-8 hours a day.

In Bio I got no typical questions and some were very random and I had to read the question several times. Cambells bio book from freshman year helped more then anything by a lot. I just read the whole thing, at least important concepts. Gen chem is way easy compared to destroyer. I am just not great at reading fast so thats why that score is low. Math I just went to the tutoring center and got help from my calc teacher with trig and quick ways to find answers and I really recommend that method. Math destroyer was much much harder then the real thing. Hopefully I get in somewhere.

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bio, chem, o chem, pat, rc, qr
19, 18 17 18 17 16
18 17 17 20 16 17
15 18 19 20 15 17
kaplan scores were a bit better but I took them much earlier and not as serious. I was very discouraged from the achiever scores going into the test the day after my last achiever test.

Last thing. Don't unplug the monitor with your foot and it goes blank. It freaks you out. 5th question in bio I did that. Good luck all
 
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Campbells was just the best all around for bio for me. I read Kaplans book and Barons also but neither were as useful. I focused on topics that I saw on practice tests from Kaplan and Achiever after I went through the whole book. I would just skim every chapter and read vocab words and read some of he passages I did not no very well (or remember I ever learned). Like operators, which I had a question on, neither other book covered those very well.

It was funny going through the bio every question I new right where in Campbells I would look to find the answer. Also on achievers I had some tough random question on some random bacteria that I would never no and I look up spirophyte* and it was one sentence at the end of a passage that had the answer.

Great book, plus I used the 7th edition which i just kept from bio, but its only like 10 bucks.
 
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Bravo, not bad! Good job with the 21 AA.

My only concern would be the 18 RC. It won't activate any cut offs, but some schools love it and that is a low-ish score. Although I don't think it will have a huge affect on your admissions at all.

Good luck with everything.
 
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Coincidence? He took the DAT on June 22 and got a TS 22.

I'm in good shape, I'm taking mine on the 27 of next month.

I feel sorry for anyone taking it on the 15. You better change your test date!
 
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tmirchel said:
Last thing. Don't unplug the monitor with your foot and it goes blank. It freaks you out. 5th question in bio I did that. Good luck all
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The same thing happened to me when i took my test last time. I totally freaked out and it probably wasted my 2-3 minutes during PAT. :xf:
 
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Coincidence? He took the DAT on June 22 and got a TS 22.

I'm in good shape, I'm taking mine on the 27 of next month.

I feel sorry for anyone taking it on the 15. You better change your test date!
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Wait for this, My birthday was June 21, the day before my test. And I turned 22 on the 21. Took my test on the 22... All my scores were 21 and 22 but 18 RC haha

I am just a slow reader first passage was super easy and I was so happy, since I was taking achiever tests and those suck. My second passage sucked up all my time. It was 22 sections and comparing like different aspects to be a good person, like alturism and judgment. It was weird and yea not being a great reader got stuck. Got the the 3rd passage with 11 min left. I was pleased with a 18. I think I should be ok since I did well everywhere else.
 
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Great scores! I took it on the 14th and got extremely similar scores haha

Bio 21
Chem 21
Ochem 21
RC 19
QR 24
PAT 20
AA 21
TS 21
 
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tmirchel said:
Campbells was just the best all around for bio for me. I read Kaplans book and Barons also but neither were as useful. I focused on topics that I saw on practice tests from Kaplan and Achiever after I went through the whole book. I would just skim every chapter and read vocab words and read some of he passages I did not no very well (or remember I ever learned). Like operators, which I had a question on, neither other book covered those very well.

It was funny going through the bio every question I new right where in Campbells I would look to find the answer. Also on achievers I had some tough random question on some random bacteria that I would never no and I look up spirophyte* and it was one sentence at the end of a passage that had the answer.

Great book, plus I used the 7th edition which i just kept from bio, but its only like 10 bucks.
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You actually read your Campbell bio from cover to cover? I find that hard to believe.
 
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LetsGo2DSchool said:
You actually read your Campbell bio from cover to cover? I find that hard to believe.
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The second line said "I would just skim every chapter and read vocab words and read some of he passages I did not no very well (or remember I ever learned)." yea i did read a lot of the chapters page to page but some of them I new most the stuff so i just skimmed it.
 
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