Dude, wow, amazing. Congratulations. Mind telling me how long you studied for?
About a month of serious study. With much more time half ass studying/ gathering materials/not nutting up to the task
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Use Chads for the chemistries and then do destroyer at least twice for both of them. Understand every explanation. EVERY explanation. THEN go through kbb to sweep up, and maybe a third or more time for destroyer. Simple
😉 Make three pages of paper for gc and oc and list questions you are immediately able to solve, questions you had to analyze, and questions you had no idea about. The no idea list is what you refer back to chad's notes & kaplan about. Also, do chad's qizzes at least after each section and at least twice after you have finished all of his videos.
For Biology, I thought I would do better. I read Campbells in outline form and used a tattered old copy of cliff's ap bio. I went through Schaums quickly for an orientation. I did destroyer and datqvault and was doing really well (25's &27's). I thought if I was to get a 30 it would be in bio. I honestly don't know what I got wrong, I would be interested to know, and how many as well.
I was so ready for the sciences. I had 15 minutes left and I went on right to the PAT........where I got butchered, lol!
For PAT, Idkwtf the deal was. I have great manual dexterity and visual acuity. I built a chess set, a repeating crossbow, and I have pretty much every airplane flown in WWII in model form in a box from when I was a kid and some from a few years ago. I was getting reliable 25's on CDP (which I still highly recommend despite my personal actual PAT experience). The first part of the PAT was much harder than anything I had ever seen. I don't want to psyche people out, but there is at least one really hard version of the PAT out there, haha. The problem was, however, that I didn't respond the way I should have, the way I practiced. I should have skipped to see if the pattern folding/cubes/angles were any easier (and they were much easier than CDP which is contrary to what everyone else says). I didn't even finish, lol and I christmas treed the pattern folding and most of the cube counting. Angles were easy. TFE was hard. What really surprised me was that the paper folding was hard as ancient egyptian algebra.
Basically what I'm getting at is DON'T FORGET TIME MANAGEMENT like I did on the PAT.
I wasn't surprised about QR. I am good at math and I have always done well in math classes, but I have found that I need my time when I do math problems. I did Math destroyer, which I highly recommend. For me this just increased familiarity and did nothing for my (insufficient) speed.
For RC, I didn't really prepare for it. I should have, lol. I did three practice exams on CDR and got 21 22 23 so i took it for granted. On the real thing I panicked. Honestly I don't know what we are supposed to do for this section or if we can realistically do anything. That said I am a slow reader.
Don't waste your time and money on crack the science.
Above all, I didn't do any full length practice tests which was reckless and stupid. I can't stress enough how you should do practice tests while you are studying and especially up to the day of the exam. Maybe I would have done better in the non science parts if I had done a practice test.
Well, I wish everyone luck on all of their studying and maybe we'll see each other in dental school
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I feel bad about always taking advice from people on here for free but never helping anyone out. If anyone has any questions feel free to pm me, or just pm that tangerine guy with his/her miraculous scores that make me look bad
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