DAT DOWN! the aftermath 7/14/10

[shiftypoptart]

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So I basically studied for the past month straight and a week before my test I burnt out... Yup i was at the point were I didn't want to study at all anymore followed with bipolar mood swings. So this last week I spent it watching tv, playing video games and studying casually at night. I was probably more nervous than I've ever felt in my life wishing for 17s but this is what I got:

Percetual ability 21 (87.9)
quantitative reasoning 19 (91.2)
reading comprehension 20 (64.3)
biology 21 (92.3)
general chemistry 20 (79.8)
organic chemistry 22 (90.4)
total science 21 (91.6)
academic average 20 (87.6)


When I saw my scores I almost peed my pants no joke. But yeah my advice is don't stress over destroyer and Crack dat sciences cause they are way over the top questions. The entire thing was no higher in difficulty than the practice DAT on the ADA website. Another tip is don't burn yourself out like I did, pace yourself and you should do well. Goodluck to everyone!

But yeah the rest of my stats are a 3.33 cGPA, 3.2 BCP, 3.1 sGPA, (yeah kind low) and lots and lots of shadowing hours and extracurriculars. Also am a Mexican URM which tell ya the truth dunno if it matters but worth mentioning. California resident, UC graduate, and applied everywhere in california plus some friendly out of staters like BU, NYU, Tufts, VCU, meharry, howard, and UNLV. Hopefully dental school is in my future =D.

 

[fever103]

nice scores! how did you study for sciences? im feeling like destroyer ochem/gen chem is overkill. what do you think?

 

[PaulieGualtieri]

You're getting in somewhere. Congrats and relax

 

[singhb]

How were you doing on the crack the DAT sciences?

 

[marymatthews]

topscore scores?

 

[shiftypoptart]

definitely get exam krackers audio osmosis for biology and maybe kaplan bb. For chem and ochem definitely a good choice is chads videos. destroyer and crack dat go way too in depth for the science section and not worth it (feel like i wasted 300$ on the crack dat pack). Chads videos are definitely enough info to get you through. I didn't use topscore or achiever only kaplan online course, chads videos, and mcat audio osmosis. On crack dat sciences I was getting a 12 on biology, 13 on gen chem, and 11 on ochem lol. so you can get a feel of how stupidly hard it is compared to the real thing.

My best opinion if your on a budget (both money and time) focus on mcat audio osmosis for biology, kaplan bb for biology, and chads videos for chem and ochem. This is basically all I studied and scored what I scored. If you have trouble with math, definitely review probability, a little trig and geometry, and basic algebra, I have always been good at math and was surprised to see that this was my lowest section. Reading comp even though I didn't do the best, Id say just follow your own strategy. I basically scanned the passage for key words then read the paragraph that had the key word for the question I was at. Eventually for later questions I would remember reading the paragraph, seeing something, and directly go for it. Again I say choose your own strat for this section because I definitely winged it for this section and just did 2-3 practices on kaplan and crack dat which is why I didn't do as well. Study at your own pace, I can't stress this enough and take the test when you finish. If you are a science major and have been doing this for the past 3-4 years there's no excuse for doing bad.