DAT Over For Me too!

[dane4695]

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I'm so glad it's done! But I didn't make the 20/20 club. It breaks my heart. I'm going to type this up fast then I have to leave.

Academic Average 22 96.1%
Perceputal Ability 18 66.8%
Quantitative Reasoning 22 93.8%
Reading Comp 19 51.1%
Biology 25 99.9%
Gen Chem 22 92%
Ochem 23 93.9%
TS 23 98.6%

That's my scores and below are my Kaplan / TS Scores

Test # Source AA TS Bio Chem Ochem QR RC PAT

1 KapPre 18 18 20 16 17 16 21 18
2 KapMid 18 18 18 19 18 19 18 19
3 TS1 20 19 18 23 16 20 21 19
4 KapPrac1 21 20 19 19 21 23 22 20
5 KapPracCD 21 20 21 20 19 22 22 20
6 TS2 20 19 18 19 20 22 23 23
7 KapPrac2 19 18 22 17 16 20 21 22
8 TS3 21 20 17 19 23 23 21 23

9 REAL DAT 22 23 25 22 23 22 19 18


Well, now for my opinions ...

All the science sections were pretty straight forward to me. Bio was especially easy if you eliminated the wrong choices. I took gtenetics last semeseter, so the genetics stuff was really easy... if you haven't had genetics I would restate as everyone has said -- review it.

Chem: I had a weird question asking for what I Think were Pi and Sigma bonds of I think ethene (though maybe ethyne?) I wasn't sure ... instead of having a double bond between the molecule it had an equilibrum symbol. Strange. Everything else was straight forward, I wish I could see which questions I missed.

Orgo: again pretty basic stuff, all in kaplan. It had 1 6 step synthesis and lots of other simple ones. A few SN1/SN2 E1/E2, though not as many as I expected.

PAT: Man. My score here saddens me. I thought I was doing really well -- The keyholes and the topfronts were really easy, with the exception of 1 in each section which I just couldn't get. What I think got me here is the angle perception... everyone says its bad and it really easy. Despite me reading over and over and over again that it wasn't good, I was prepaired for how much harder it was to tell, not to mention the angle differences were minute. I bet I missed at least 10 in this section 🙂

Reading: 1 on space / asteroids the other 2 were on the brain, the last being particularly difficult. The passages were 18 para 16 para and 18 para. I probably should just searched for answers rather than read it al, but I had made up my mind before hand.

Math: Just like topscore. Nothing weird.

Anyway, i'm off for a few days but if you had specific questions I'll try and answer them as I can.

My complete stats are:

Cum GPA 3.99
Sci GPA 4.00
22/18/23

Top 3 choices are probably UW, OHSU, Arizona.

Good luck to everyone soon to take their test.

 

[Rezdawg]

Congrats...those scores are off the hook! And that GPA is more off the hook. Also, nice jump in Bio from your TS tests...18,18, and 17 to a 25 on the real thing, wow!


Im going to be the first to say it here....MARK MY WORDS.

I will be the first person in SDN history to not have an improvement from Topscore to the real DAT. I feel that coming. In fact, I may regress. I need this little fella to come through for me...

 

[drpduck]

Sick scores! I'm going for it in 2 weeks....hope I even break 20.

 

[rocknightmare]

were 18 para 16 para and 18 para << that seems much longer than the kaplan cd passages.. where they short para?

 

[drat]

Great stats!! You worked hard to earn those DAT score. Congrats! Now enjoy what remains of the summer. 🙂

 

[dane4695]

Just to clarify -- my passages were definitely longer than I what I had seen in kaplan. I think that's why it through me. I usually was finishing reading comp about 10-15 minutes early, but this one i finished with about 5 minutes time. Kind sucked.

As for bio, I studied the most here. I used kaplan, a lil of barrons, cliffs quick review for Human A&P (no one else seems to recommend this, but I am a big fan), shaums outlines, and Cliffs AP Bio review. Oh and I went through the exam busters flash cards too... they are about the same level of difficulty as the DAT, but I didn't find all 400 of them useful. I made about another 200 bio flash cards with lots of questions on each... I really tried to cover everything iun death.

 

[Sprgrover]

Congratulations! 🙂