DAT Done

[toothmovin]

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First of all thanks to all of you that have posted their scores and given a run down of how it compared to the various practice tests, it really helped. So in order to return the favor I feel obligated to do the same. First of all the scores:

Bio 21
G. Chem 21
O. Chem 23
Total science 22
PAT 19
QR 17 ouch!!!
Reading 16 Double ouch!!!
AA 20

The rundown:

The sciences: The sciences were actually quite easy compared to the acheiver and destroyer. I was scoring 15's on the practice test in general chemistry and 18 in biology. The real test is fairly close to the level of organic chemistry that you see on the achiever. The destroyer really seems to prepare you very well in the sceinces as long as you go over each and every answer and understand why the others are wrong.

PAT- I honestly do not know how I scored so low here. It seemed a lot easier than achiever and when I was done with it I thought I had nailed it. I finished with 6 minutes left and was able to go through the ones that I was not 100% about. I was pretty disapointed with this score.

Reading- This section was impossible for me. It didn't compare to achiever, barron's or kaplan. The passage weren't hard to read but the questions were crazy, like what was the authors tone and then it would list terms that I have never heard before. But, if I was going to do horribly in a section I quess this is the one to do it in.

QR- This section also destroyed me. I was getting 18's and 19's on achiever. The calculations just seemed to take so long that I looked up with only 2 minutes to go and I still had 7 questions. So in other words this section dominated me.

All in all I am pretty happy with my scores, with the exception of reading and QR. Also thanks again to anyone who has posted in the past about their DAT experience, it really does help.

 

[blondigirl23]

You know. I wish I was in your shoes.. but great Job. I think I can already call you a doc.

 

[Saber tooth]

Hey nice job, dont worry about the RC score because overall you did well

Good Luck

 

[littlemissy]

yeah it seems like many people are getting hurt by the rc and the qr but overall great score. finish those secondaries and let the interviewing begin. good job

 

[hokie4life]

congrats on being done! and good job 🙂


side note: you said reading was impossible and nothing like what you prepared with...what would you suggest to at least prepare a little better then?

 

[whoaaitzkyle]

those are some sweet science scores...congratz! 👍

 

[mailman]

Great scores

 

[beccaaron]

Awesome Scores!! 👍 Congrats!!

Good luck!!

 

[toothmovin]

I think the best way to prepare for the reading is to really practice knowing the tone of the author as opposed to the trying to find certain bits of data in the passage. Achiever's reading section, tests your ability to find data in the passage so that's what I practiced doing. The real DAT is more about taking the information from the article and making interpretations. So I quess when I said it was impossible that was not a good analysis. The way I prepared for it though made it very rough.

 

[TimeforDAT]

First of all thanks to all of you that have posted their scores and given a run down of how it compared to the various practice tests, it really helped. So in order to return the favor I feel obligated to do the same. First of all the scores:

Bio 21
G. Chem 21
O. Chem 23
Total science 22
PAT 19
QR 17 ouch!!!
Reading 16 Double ouch!!!
AA 20

The rundown:

The sciences: The sciences were actually quite easy compared to the acheiver and destroyer. I was scoring 15's on the practice test in general chemistry and 18 in biology. The real test is fairly close to the level of organic chemistry that you see on the achiever. The destroyer really seems to prepare you very well in the sceinces as long as you go over each and every answer and understand why the others are wrong.

PAT- I honestly do not know how I scored so low here. It seemed a lot easier than achiever and when I was done with it I thought I had nailed it. I finished with 6 minutes left and was able to go through the ones that I was not 100% about. I was pretty disapointed with this score.

Reading- This section was impossible for me. It didn't compare to achiever, barron's or kaplan. The passage weren't hard to read but the questions were crazy, like what was the authors tone and then it would list terms that I have never heard before. But, if I was going to do horribly in a section I quess this is the one to do it in.

QR- This section also destroyed me. I was getting 18's and 19's on achiever. The calculations just seemed to take so long that I looked up with only 2 minutes to go and I still had 7 questions. So in other words this section dominated me.

All in all I am pretty happy with my scores, with the exception of reading and QR. Also thanks again to anyone who has posted in the past about their DAT experience, it really does help.

seems like you're contradicting the difficulty level here...

 

[IsRaEl21]

very good scores. Hope ur application process goes by really well.