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Thank you to those that answered my PMs. This forum was so helpful and very kind to me. Although I didn't do well on PAT, RC, and QR, I am satisfied with my science scores because I seriously didn't feel ready. I was so nervous. I was praying to God for a "good version" and that I will at least hit a 19 mark with my sciences. I believe I got lucky with a good version - I didn't get frapped or anything like that. RC was killing me, perhaps it's because English is my 2nd language.
Here are my scores.
PAT - 17 (after all that CRACK DAT PAT???) 😕
QR - 15 (hahahahaha 😱 )
RC - 20 (only 66.2%...wdhell???)
BIO - 23 (97.6)
GCHEM - 21 (86.2)
OCHEM - 24 (94.4)
TOTAL SCIENCE 22 (95.3%)
AA 21 (91%)
This is my first time taking DAT. I studied about 6 months, started digging into the material not until last month. I didn't study for QR because I was concentrating on my sciences - my mistake. I became so tired towards end of the test, I was literally pulling my hair out. I thought I was going to faint so I ended up just guessing "C"s for QR.
DO NOT DO THIS. I haven't taken math in 5 years so I was praying that I would at least get a 16.
As for PAT, I don't know what happened, I thought I was doing pretty well. I would say it's VERY comparable to CRACK DAT PAT. Angles were easier than DAT PAT on my version. It's weird, I seriously thought all the PAT sections were easier than CRACK...but my PAT score doesn't portray that, does it now? 😕 Oh wells.
Let's skip to sections that I did "okay" on:
OVERALL:
Here are my scores.
PAT - 17 (after all that CRACK DAT PAT???) 😕
QR - 15 (hahahahaha 😱 )
RC - 20 (only 66.2%...wdhell???)
BIO - 23 (97.6)
GCHEM - 21 (86.2)
OCHEM - 24 (94.4)
TOTAL SCIENCE 22 (95.3%)
AA 21 (91%)
This is my first time taking DAT. I studied about 6 months, started digging into the material not until last month. I didn't study for QR because I was concentrating on my sciences - my mistake. I became so tired towards end of the test, I was literally pulling my hair out. I thought I was going to faint so I ended up just guessing "C"s for QR.
DO NOT DO THIS. I haven't taken math in 5 years so I was praying that I would at least get a 16. As for PAT, I don't know what happened, I thought I was doing pretty well. I would say it's VERY comparable to CRACK DAT PAT. Angles were easier than DAT PAT on my version. It's weird, I seriously thought all the PAT sections were easier than CRACK...but my PAT score doesn't portray that, does it now? 😕 Oh wells.
Let's skip to sections that I did "okay" on:
OVERALL:
- Here are the test materials that I've used - Destroyer, Cliff AP Bio., Topscore, Achiever, CRACK DAT PAT, Kaplan online course, Kaplan book, MCAT Examcrackers and bunch of other textbooks and class notes.
- Okay...so I just got done organizing DAT materials and I came across few identical questions from one of my textbook. Was Destroyer good? Sure, but I wouldn't say it is sufficient. I read Cliff AP Bio. 2 times and went to my textbooks whenever I didn't understand. I didn't even bother reading Bio. in kaplan book. Nothing is too detailed in DAT. I had 1 histology slide and 1 animated picture of "What would this differentiate into?" type of a question. Hmm...no lab questions. KNOW YOUR EMBRYOLOGY! Know Mitosis & Meiosis. Kidney structure, and fertilization.
- I mainly used Kaplan book and Destroyer for this section. I had 50% word problems and 50% calculations. Nothing "new" came up during this section...I don't know why I didn't do better. know your oxidizing & reducing species. Know your intermolecular and intramolecular bonds. If a reaction is given, find the limiting reagent and go from there to find moles and etc. Ya know, typical stuff you see everywhere in the study guides.
- I had lots of word problems!!! Only 3-5 drawn out reactions. It seems like a lot of people just "memorize" reactions and don't actually understand certain concepts. Once again, know your Kaplan book. I did destroyer three times for Ochem and twice for Chem. Know your lab procedures. I had 2 questions on lab. Oh yeah and IR & NMR too. Man...I had about 4 of those. Not easy ones though. The ones in DESTROYER are TOO EASY.
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