First of all thank you to all of you guys. This is an awesome site and a great study aid 😳. This is my first time posting. So here is my breakdown. PLEASE ADVISE whether I should retake or have any chance of getting in to dental school this time around.
QR 16
PAT 17
RC 17 (Piano 🙁)
BIO 20
GC 19
OC 19
TS 19
AA 18
BIO: The questions were very random. I was surprised to see that there were very few classification questions. I used Kaplan blue book, Top Score and Cliffs Bio. Cliffs Bio was very useful. I read the Kaplan blue book 2 times and followed up with Cliffs Bio to clear things up that I was weak with.
GC: Very similar to Kaplan and Topscore. I wish I had used destroyer though. I only learned about destroyer 10 days before my exam date. I also wish I was faster in answering the questions in this section.
OC : similar to Kaplan and Topscore. There were many questions on NMR and spectroscopy. The very first question was about C NMR. I didnt really study these topics in depth and didnt expect to have many questions on them.
PAT: Used Crack DAT PAT (10 exams). I dont know what happened here I was scoring 19-21 on the DAT PAT. I am really worried about this score. I dont think my score is good enough.
QR: Really DIFFICULT. I ran out of time, I had about 10 questions to finish and had only 3 minutes at the end. Kaplan is too easy for this section. Not a good predictor of your scores at all. TopScore was ok. Again not a good predictor. The real DAT had lots of word problems. The ratio of word problems to simple/plug and chug math was much higher than either TopScore or Kaplan. I dont really know how I would have studied for this section differently and I am fairly good at math
RC: I read so much about the dreaded piano passage so I decided to look over the working of a piano the night before the exam. I was hoping I would not get this passage but just as my luck would have it I did. As soon as I saw this I decided to finish the other two passages before going on to the piano. This section had more inference questions (2-3) per passage than Kaplan or Topscore. The piano passage was just too long and had to guess on about 7 questions when I ran out of time.
Overall, I am really unhappy with my scores 🙁. I wish I had used destroyer. I studied for 5 weeks. My BCP 3.73, Science GPA 3.67 and Overall GPA 3.73 from Cornell University. Not URM. Good extracurricular activities and good LORs. Please advise on what I should do and a few schools that might be in my range with these scores.
QR 16
PAT 17
RC 17 (Piano 🙁)
BIO 20
GC 19
OC 19
TS 19
AA 18
BIO: The questions were very random. I was surprised to see that there were very few classification questions. I used Kaplan blue book, Top Score and Cliffs Bio. Cliffs Bio was very useful. I read the Kaplan blue book 2 times and followed up with Cliffs Bio to clear things up that I was weak with.
GC: Very similar to Kaplan and Topscore. I wish I had used destroyer though. I only learned about destroyer 10 days before my exam date. I also wish I was faster in answering the questions in this section.
OC : similar to Kaplan and Topscore. There were many questions on NMR and spectroscopy. The very first question was about C NMR. I didnt really study these topics in depth and didnt expect to have many questions on them.
PAT: Used Crack DAT PAT (10 exams). I dont know what happened here I was scoring 19-21 on the DAT PAT. I am really worried about this score. I dont think my score is good enough.
QR: Really DIFFICULT. I ran out of time, I had about 10 questions to finish and had only 3 minutes at the end. Kaplan is too easy for this section. Not a good predictor of your scores at all. TopScore was ok. Again not a good predictor. The real DAT had lots of word problems. The ratio of word problems to simple/plug and chug math was much higher than either TopScore or Kaplan. I dont really know how I would have studied for this section differently and I am fairly good at math
RC: I read so much about the dreaded piano passage so I decided to look over the working of a piano the night before the exam. I was hoping I would not get this passage but just as my luck would have it I did. As soon as I saw this I decided to finish the other two passages before going on to the piano. This section had more inference questions (2-3) per passage than Kaplan or Topscore. The piano passage was just too long and had to guess on about 7 questions when I ran out of time.
Overall, I am really unhappy with my scores 🙁. I wish I had used destroyer. I studied for 5 weeks. My BCP 3.73, Science GPA 3.67 and Overall GPA 3.73 from Cornell University. Not URM. Good extracurricular activities and good LORs. Please advise on what I should do and a few schools that might be in my range with these scores.
