DAT done; scores; breakdown; how i got owned

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shaq17

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Man oh man am I upset, but do you guys think I can get into dental schools? Honestly.

I already sent in my application and everything's in:

Orgo = 19
Bio = 18
Chem = 20
PAT = 18
RC = 18
QR = 16
AA = 18
Science = 19

Major = Forensic Science minor: Bio, Chem, Arabic
Dental shadowing= over 250 hours
Dental assisting = over 200 hours

science gpa = 3.4
gpa = 3.4

Yeah so I really have no hope in getting into dental school, I have some really good recommendations, and I have a sick personal statement and such, but I honestly think it will do be no good.

Bio : Completely random. No clue what was going on. I finished DAT destroyer, did the AP cliffs, did Kaplans and Barrons. My top score grades in bio were 19, 23, 22. I honestly knew everything about the endocrine system, digestive, respiration, circulatory, I was killing the AP exam tests, and not ONE question about any of them. It was honestly so random and I was really upset with my grade because I was killing topscore and all practice kaplan exams.

Chem: Straightforward just do DAT destroyer, Kaplans and topscore I was scoring top score: 19, 20, 21

OChem: Straightforward as well, just do dat destroyer and kaplans and topscore : 20, 19, 21

RC: Okay what the helllllll. I had a passage on telephone wires??? It was terrible. The questions had a completely different format from topscore, kaplans, barrons. It was terrible. I was scoring topscore 22, 22, 24. This section was BS

QR: I ran out of time. Simply put. Had a few conversions but I knew everything. Killed all the trig and geometry and arithmetic questions but they honestly take wayyyy too long to do because they give you crazy numbers and you have convert. I was scoring top score: 19, 19, 19 with time to spare but they were giving crazy numbers in here and it was wayyy to wordy. I used kaplans, barrons, topscore, math destroyer

PAT: Okay everything was legit except hole punching. I think the exam creators just wanted to screw me over. They were making like paper airplanes and poking holes in crazy areas. Otherwise not too bad. I used Kaplans, topscore, barrons.

Goodluck to all
 
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Im from Maryland, Im thinking about retaking it or im thinking of running away and becoming a sailor/pirate.
 
don't be discouraged! your scores would've been considered competitive a few years ago -____-

i can't believe they tried to trip you up with stupid conversions and crazy hole punching. =[

your gpa are similar to mine.
i'm taking DATs in August. I'm so scareeeeed!!!

Best of luck =]
 
Im from Maryland, Im thinking about retaking it or im thinking of running away and becoming a sailor/pirate.

I am with you if you do that...halo me...

Apart from that...your scores are okay...I am sure you will get better advice from DW than me...but from what I have seen, if you apply all over and early, which I am sure you will, you should be okay....

Dude..my exam is coming up soon so was wondering, what would you have done differently for RC and Hole punching...now that u know how they were...
 
Honestly one of mine was concerning a subject(idk if im allowed to say, what if they hunt me down?) and they had various postulates scattered throughout the passage. THEN they would give an example and were like this example best illustrates the postulate regarding: blah blah blah. And they would have different answers. I had like 6 questions like that. And then I had questions that stated something from the passage, and then another statement from the passage and they were like does this statement relate to the reason? Is this statement false and the reason is true? Is the reason false while the statement being true? Are the reason and statement unrelated? Honestly I have never seen these kinda of questions on ANY of the practice exams I have taken. And I had a total of like 14 of these kinds of questions. And I mean im pretty strong in RC I was getting like 24's on practice exams so I was really upset.

Hole punching just practice man. I was straight in everything else but they completely pwned me in hole punching, they were like making multiple half holes and doing some crazy oragami stuff.
The folding wasnt too bad, angle ranking was kind of ******ed they ALL looked the same, it was total BS, aperture was pretty straightforward, top front end was straightforward as well. I recommend getting crack PAT I heard its legit.
 
Thanks man...that helps..

I am using Crack PAT...

One more thing..this I know you can tell..they will not come looking for you..do you remember the passages u had..
 
Thanks man...that helps..

I am using Crack PAT...

One more thing..this I know you can tell..they will not come looking for you..do you remember the passages u had..

Shouldn't be fishing for specific questions on the dat. It's against forum rules.

Anyway, I found the folding and rc completely different from what I'm used to practicing too. I think they are trying to make it harder.

Paper airplanes man. That's what I felt too...
 
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