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For the sake of God, I can't believe I'm typing this now.
This is my second time taking it and I would like to thank everyone on SDN for all the valuable info.
The scores are
1st 2nd
PAT 21 22
QR 16 23🙂
RC 16 19🙂
BIO 20 24
GC 22 22
OC 23 2🙁
Overall, I thought the retake was easier just b/c I spent more time studying for it. Although I have average RC score, I'm happy with it since English is my second language. For OC and GC, I thought I would do much better on it b/c I had destroyer for the second time. The first time I was taking DAT, I only studied Kaplan material.
For the break down (although I can't tell anyone about specific details),
BIO: I never thought that I would get that high score. However, only one question was unexpected and the rest were fair enough.
GC: Like other people saying, concept questions were on the section.
OC: I was really disappointed b/c I thought I only missed 2questions at most. Anyway, all the questions were very straight forward. Studying destroyer might be overkill.
PAT: Every section was very simple except the angles. They were really hard and I think I got the most questions wrong from this section. Again, I won't complain with what I got. I used CDP and it was harder than actual PAT.
RC: Like you see, the score improved. I guess I was lucky that I didn't get FRAPPED.
QR: I used CDM and I personally thought that the actual QR was a lot easier than CDM. I think I got 16 on the first time b/c I didn't spend any time on this section at all.
Although I can't give out any details, I hope this gives some general idea about DAT. I am really pleased with my scores. I have sgpa 3.8 and overall gpa 3.8. Do you guys think I can get into a dental school??
For further breakdown on the materials that I used,
I used Kaplan BB, Cliff AP bio, and destroyer for Bio. I bought schaum's but I didn't read most of them. I thought everything was wordy and long. I'm biochem major and took a lot of bio classes. I think that helped too.
For GC and OC, I remembered a lot from the last time I studied so going over destroyer was like a review. I thought destroyer does good job on preparing calculations for GC and mechanisms for OC(but like i said, most of the multiple step reactions were overkill). Anyway, I thought Kaplan BB and destroyer were good combination on studying GC and OC.
Sorry for breaking down in a short paragraph. It's been a long day so i'm kinda tired. I'll try to break it down more if anyone has more specific questions.
I forgot to add how many hours I spent each day and how long.
I studied about little more than a month and 6-8 hours on each day. I gave up everything else for the DAT =).
This is my second time taking it and I would like to thank everyone on SDN for all the valuable info.
The scores are
1st 2nd
PAT 21 22
QR 16 23🙂
RC 16 19🙂
BIO 20 24
GC 22 22
OC 23 2🙁
Overall, I thought the retake was easier just b/c I spent more time studying for it. Although I have average RC score, I'm happy with it since English is my second language. For OC and GC, I thought I would do much better on it b/c I had destroyer for the second time. The first time I was taking DAT, I only studied Kaplan material.
For the break down (although I can't tell anyone about specific details),
BIO: I never thought that I would get that high score. However, only one question was unexpected and the rest were fair enough.
GC: Like other people saying, concept questions were on the section.
OC: I was really disappointed b/c I thought I only missed 2questions at most. Anyway, all the questions were very straight forward. Studying destroyer might be overkill.
PAT: Every section was very simple except the angles. They were really hard and I think I got the most questions wrong from this section. Again, I won't complain with what I got. I used CDP and it was harder than actual PAT.
RC: Like you see, the score improved. I guess I was lucky that I didn't get FRAPPED.
QR: I used CDM and I personally thought that the actual QR was a lot easier than CDM. I think I got 16 on the first time b/c I didn't spend any time on this section at all.
Although I can't give out any details, I hope this gives some general idea about DAT. I am really pleased with my scores. I have sgpa 3.8 and overall gpa 3.8. Do you guys think I can get into a dental school??
For further breakdown on the materials that I used,
I used Kaplan BB, Cliff AP bio, and destroyer for Bio. I bought schaum's but I didn't read most of them. I thought everything was wordy and long. I'm biochem major and took a lot of bio classes. I think that helped too.
For GC and OC, I remembered a lot from the last time I studied so going over destroyer was like a review. I thought destroyer does good job on preparing calculations for GC and mechanisms for OC(but like i said, most of the multiple step reactions were overkill). Anyway, I thought Kaplan BB and destroyer were good combination on studying GC and OC.
Sorry for breaking down in a short paragraph. It's been a long day so i'm kinda tired. I'll try to break it down more if anyone has more specific questions.
I forgot to add how many hours I spent each day and how long.
I studied about little more than a month and 6-8 hours on each day. I gave up everything else for the DAT =).
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