I took my DAT last Thursday morning. My friend said he had some questions that were on Kaplan's tests that appeared on the real thing. I didn't take the Kaplan course so I was debatin whether I should buy the mid-term and final from people who are selling them. I didn't take the Kaplan course so I donno whether it is true or not. You may want to ask someone who took the course and had experience with real thing 🙂
For the math and G chem part, I received 100 percentile on g chem and almost 100 percentile on math. I suggest you to work FAST on math! If you are stuck, just SKIP!!! I haven't really taken a real practice test other than the free diagnostic test from Kaplan so I wasn't sure about the timing. But my friend said he ran outta time on Math so I went through all the questions on math and marked the ones I wasn't sure. I had easy questions towards the end so I think my plan worked. 🙂
Gchem, they were relatively easy. Difficulty level was the kaplan free test. Not much calculations and conceptual stuff.. Actually I got 23 on G chem on free test cuz I made careless mistakes. My score went up drastically on the real thing cuz I took it for real. Like I said before, this is why you need a good sleep before the test. Yeah, studying is required to do well but a good sleep will DEFINITELY enhance your points by adding few more points on each test.
I am not sure about Topscore so I can't really help you there. Sorry.
Good luck on the real thing! YOu will do fine! Get a good amount of rest and healthy breakfast before the test day (my stomach was growling ~~ 🙂 hehe..
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