DAT on Sunday

[komradrobot]

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I just took the Kaplan final and my DAT is on Sunday.

BIO: 21
CHEM: 17
OCHEM: 19
RC: 21
QR: 16

AA: 19
PAT: 23

I am nervous about the QR...how does the kaplan QR compare to the real dAT? I am hoping to review enough tomorrow to hopefully bring that up a bit...to be honest i didn't study the math portion all that much.

How does that look? I have a 3.6/s3.5 .. :/

 

[Hordel]

I think you will be fine! I wouldn't be applying to harvard, but most schools really don't care too much about the QR. Besides that 16, and the 17 in chem, everything looks fine! Some schools might have a limit of how low a score they will accept, like not below 16 or 15, but most will let you slide on that section! I had a 15 on QR, and I know of others with a similar situation, and I got accepted. It wasn't easy, I applied to 16 schools and got into 1 rather late, but over all my DAT was worse then yours! Best of luck

 

[UBDent19]

I've got to tell you man, I took the DAT last Friday and the QR was significantly harder than the two Kaplan tests I took. I scored 22-24 on the Kap tests and barely squeaked by with a 17 on the real QR. It was a bummer because it pulled down my academic average. Lots of stuff I didn't really see in my math studying for the DAT. Several of the word problems and probability questions were also quite a bit harder than in my study material. I felt robbed because I studied well and was getting high scores on the Kaplan QR and Crack DAT Math but there was just too much stuff I hadn't seen on the real DAT. I'm surprised (and thankfull) that I walked away with a 17.

Before I took the DAT, I basically viewed the QR as an academic average score booster....now I realize (for me) it can also be an academic average score deflater....👎

 

[komradrobot]

I've heard that Kaplan doesn't cover a lot of the math stuff that's on the DAT...do you think it's more similar to the ADA practice test QR maybe?

I plan to study that and cram some kaplan...hopefully be able to pull off a 17 on the real thing...

How did your other scores on the Kaplan final compare with the real DAT?

 

[UBDent19]

I've heard that Kaplan doesn't cover a lot of the math stuff that's on the DAT...do you think it's more similar to the ADA practice test QR maybe?

I plan to study that and cram some kaplan...hopefully be able to pull off a 17 on the real thing...

How did your other scores on the Kaplan final compare with the real DAT?

Closest thing I saw to the real QR was the mail-order sample DAT. The sample DAT on ADA's website was waaaay easier (I think I scored a 24 or 25 on the QR section). Still, I scored a 19 on the mail-order version. I was getting 22+ on Kaplan, Crack DAT and Top Score. My official DAT QR really surprised me.

Comparing the other sections of the test, my real scores were higher to significantly higher than what I got on Kaplan. But the last Kaplan test I took was a week and a half before the real thing and I did a lot of studying in that time.

 

[bigbrightsmile]

I've got to tell you man, I took the DAT last Friday and the QR was significantly harder than the two Kaplan tests I took. I scored 22-24 on the Kap tests and barely squeaked by with a 17 on the real QR. It was a bummer because it pulled down my academic average. Lots of stuff I didn't really see in my math studying for the DAT. Several of the word problems and probability questions were also quite a bit harder than in my study material. I felt robbed because I studied well and was getting high scores on the Kaplan QR and Crack DAT Math but there was just too much stuff I hadn't seen on the real DAT. I'm surprised (and thankfull) that I walked away with a 17.

Before I took the DAT, I basically viewed the QR as an academic average score booster....now I realize (for me) it can also be an academic average score deflater....👎

I thought the real DAT was also a lot harder than Kaplan test preps. It didn't pull my score down to much but I scored 1-2 pts lower on actual than all the practice tests I had taken. All my other sections went up 1-2pts though so it balanced out

 

[komradrobot]

oh god...i think im gonna barf.

do you think there a chance that schools will overlook a ~15 in QR if everything else is in the 19-20ies range

 

[ElMeroGuero]

If it makes you feel any better I did about the same as my Kaplan tests, and I thought the difficulty was comparable.

 

[Jenna2010]

If you can get your hands on Math Destroyer, I think it can really help. Ask people in your Kaplan class, they might have it.

Best of luck on the test.

 

[sfrice80]

You'll be fine. My practice test scores were all over the map. Don't let it freak you out.

 

[komradrobot]

I am aiming for a 17 on the QR

I just took the free ADA practice test, timed myself and everything and got an 18. So hopefully with a little review I will be ok.

 

[bigbrightsmile]

I am aiming for a 17 on the QR

I just took the free ADA practice test, timed myself and everything and got an 18. So hopefully with a little review I will be ok.

If you got an 18 on the ADA one you should be fine!!

 

[rejuvenatedsoul]

i was getting a 15 on every QR practice test i took, but ended up with a 20 on the real thing with 8 minutes left over to check my answers 🙂 you'll be fine.