DAT in 2 weeks, Need Help

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Hi All. My DAT is in 2 weeks, I have been using the destroyer for GC OC QR and Bio (scoring pretty bad so I'm mostly looking at the answers right away). I did chads videos once 3 months ago ad re-watched most of the videos again and did the quizzes. I finished most of cliff's (except ecology and animal behavior) but I feel like I didn't retain all the info cause I read the book over 4 month and typed notes. Now I am using Feralis notes, some old class notes, and Crash course videos. My problem is PAT, I am using bootcamp and just can't score higher than 17 =( KBB was way too easy. I took a practice test on bootcamp last week and my scores were Bio(18), GC (16), RC (17), QR (17), OC (18), PAT(17). I took another one just for Bio and got a 16 =( I am kind of late in the cycle and just don't know if I can improve my scores in 2 weeks.

I still have 80 GC, 120 OC, and 300 Bio questions to finish all of the destroyer XD. I am only using bootcamp for PAT.

Need advice everyone. Should I just postpone my test or just go with it?!

Background: oGPA:3.5 sGPA:3.4, I volunteered at a Dental school for 80hrs, 110 shadowing, 1000+ community service, im a Research assistant, and was a lab TA for a semester. Also Bilingual
 
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I don't think anyone can be 100% sure if you need to postpone or not because we don't know what you're capable of.
If you really honestly believe you can study the material and get a good enough grasp to score 20+ in two weeks, I would go for it and try your hardest. What it really comes down to is how many hours/day you're studying as well as your study method.
I rewrote a lot of my notes in different ways, drew illustrations, and made thousands of flash cards to help memorize. But you have to go with the method that really helped you throughout undergrad.

If you decide to do it in two weeks, set everything else aside (friends, family, hobbies, etc) and ONLY study. If you have responsibilities that will interfere with this, then postponing maybe your best option.
 
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Great point, I am actually doing nothing other than the DAT (and using SDN as u can see)

Do think I should spend another week doing destroyer or just a bunch of practice tests and going over notes?!
 
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whitepapertree said:
I suggest going over Chad's quizzes at least like three more times (maybe twice this week and once next)
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If you have notes on everything he says, is there a significant benefit of listening and watching him say the same things that are on your notes?
 
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510586 said:
If you have notes on everything he says, is there a significant benefit of listening and watching him say the same things that are on your notes?
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I suggested the quizzes, not the videos. Otherwise it totally depends on whether you associate whats on a page to memory or how it is presented to you (ex: with emphasis, examples, jokes etc)
 
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whitepapertree said:
Though if you have $42 to spare, it's not a bad idea to watch the videos in your non-studying downtime such as eating bfast,lunch,dinner, etc on 2x speed.
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True. If I am feeling very motivated I watch crash course when I eat but usually just eat and relax
 
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