the first time i took the dat i got an 18 on the PAT, the second time a 21.
i honestly don't know what helped me. the first time around i only used kaplan. the second time i only used achiever. however, i didn't "study" the achiever problems bc they were so frustrating.
on the actual dat, i skiped the topfrontend and came back to it later...that's the only thing i changed.
sorry if this sounded really choppy. i'm really hung over right now. life sans the dat is great.