DAT RC, need help!

[Dgeorg6]

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Alright guys, my DAT is this wednesday and I have yet to study for RC. I'm about to start doing the RC's on my achiever and TopScore and samples on 2007 DAT and OAT. What are the strategies most people use? Search and Destroy? Just read the passage and answer? Right down questions then read? or what..

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[sparky450r]

Alright guys, my DAT is this wednesday and I have yet to study for RC. I'm about to start doing the RC's on my achiever and TopScore and samples on 2007 DAT and OAT. What are the strategies most people use? Search and Destroy? Just read the passage and answer? Right down questions then read? or what..

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I would highly recommend practicing the Kaplan roadmap strategy.

 

[kc1469]

Alright guys, my DAT is this wednesday and I have yet to study for RC. I'm about to start doing the RC's on my achiever and TopScore and samples on 2007 DAT and OAT. What are the strategies most people use? Search and Destroy? Just read the passage and answer? Right down questions then read? or what..

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I used VicViper's Strategy. He got a 30 on the DAT. Search it up, should be one of the top links.

 

[torobcheh21]

i feel like the VicViper method is for straight up geniuses! and from my experience, doing S&D on ther eal test is a gamble...you might get passages that require you to really have a grasp on what you read

 

[Dgeorg6]

so what would you recommend?

 

[aqz]

All these fancy schmancy methods. Sheesh.

You are given 60 mins to do 50 problems for a reason....to -read-.

3 passages with 60 mins = 20 mins per passage.

Therefore, spend 7 mins, no more than 8, reading the passage to mentally register which paragraph contains what. Then spend your next 12-13 mins answering the 17 questions. This is where you "search and destroy" and find the passage that you remember seeing something related to the question. With speed, you should get each question answered in under a minute easy, and combine all 17 questions under a minute each should get you under 13 minutes.

Also, this makes the tone questions the easiest ones to answer if you read the whole passage.

Repeat x2 for the next 2 passages.

 

[dent4]

I highly suggest you practice all strategies and go with the one you feel most comfortable with. It will only help you if you go into the test with several strategies. RC was by far the worst for me (avg. 16 on practice tests), and I switched from reading the passage and answering to S/D after the first 4 paragraphs. Going into the test with different strategies will only be an advantage. I got a 20 on the real thing and couldn't be any happier seeing as the day before my test I was getting a 17 and 18. Hope this helps and best of luck!