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It is certainly a great relief to be done. Here is what I got:
PAT 24
QR 17
RC 19
BIO 21
GCHEM 22
OCHEM 30
TS 23
AA 22
I'm concerned about the 17 in quantitative reasoning. Will that ruin my chances with California schools? Not sure how the 30 in Orgo happened. All my Achiever scores were in 16-18 range. Needless to say I was very pleasantly suprised with the result.
I just got back from Iraq about a month ago and studied every day for about 8-12 hours for the last three weeks to prepare for the test. I studied as much as I could while I was in Iraq (which was 10 hrs a week at best). I have been out of school for about 6 years so it was painful to say the least.
I read the Kaplan book while I was in Iraq and did a number of their subject tests. As soon as I got home and really started studying, I went through Destroyer and mixed in the Topscore, Achiever and Kaplan practice tests. Anytime something was not extremely clear in Destroyer (which was frequently. people are kidding when they say you need to have a strong science base before going through Destroyer) I supplamented with some of my old college text books or wikipedia. If you are short on time in taking the test I would still recommend doing Destroyer even if you don't have a solid base as it was extremely helpful in identifying what I needed to focus on. I would have loved to go through it several times like many others here have done, but I just didn't have the time as I hope to submit my application early. I was very frustrated by my first two achiever tests, until I looked on SDN and noticed people usualy did 3 points higher on the actual DAT. Destroyer was definately the biggest help for me.
I'm really happy with my scores except for quantitative reasoning and I'm hoping they are enough to compensate for my bad GPA 3.16, SGPA 3.2. I appreciate all the comments posted in this forum.
PAT 24
QR 17
RC 19
BIO 21
GCHEM 22
OCHEM 30
TS 23
AA 22
I'm concerned about the 17 in quantitative reasoning. Will that ruin my chances with California schools? Not sure how the 30 in Orgo happened. All my Achiever scores were in 16-18 range. Needless to say I was very pleasantly suprised with the result.
I just got back from Iraq about a month ago and studied every day for about 8-12 hours for the last three weeks to prepare for the test. I studied as much as I could while I was in Iraq (which was 10 hrs a week at best). I have been out of school for about 6 years so it was painful to say the least.
I read the Kaplan book while I was in Iraq and did a number of their subject tests. As soon as I got home and really started studying, I went through Destroyer and mixed in the Topscore, Achiever and Kaplan practice tests. Anytime something was not extremely clear in Destroyer (which was frequently. people are kidding when they say you need to have a strong science base before going through Destroyer) I supplamented with some of my old college text books or wikipedia. If you are short on time in taking the test I would still recommend doing Destroyer even if you don't have a solid base as it was extremely helpful in identifying what I needed to focus on. I would have loved to go through it several times like many others here have done, but I just didn't have the time as I hope to submit my application early. I was very frustrated by my first two achiever tests, until I looked on SDN and noticed people usualy did 3 points higher on the actual DAT. Destroyer was definately the biggest help for me.
I'm really happy with my scores except for quantitative reasoning and I'm hoping they are enough to compensate for my bad GPA 3.16, SGPA 3.2. I appreciate all the comments posted in this forum.
