DAT section questions

[eunguyen]

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Does the DAT choose questions from each topic so that it cover a broad range of topics? or the questions are random?

for instance
Biology
· Animal behavior
.o .Behavior and Learning (2 questions)
· Autotrophic nutrition
.o .Plant structure (3 questions)
· Cell biology
.o .Cellular organelles (1 question)
.o .Tran-membrane traffic (3 questions)
etc...

 

[dentalWorks]

The following is Taken from Barrons DAT book (2nd edition)
Red = Expected number of Questions

1. Biology (40 Qs)
* Origins of life, cell metabolism, enzymology, cellular processes, thermodynamics, organelle structure and function, mitosis/meiosis, cell structure, experimental cell biology.......13

* Biological organization and relationship of major taxa (5 kingdom system).......3

* Structure and function of vertebrate system.......9

* Fertilization, description embryology, developmental mechanisms, experimental embryology.......4

* Molecular/human genetics, classical genetics, chromosomal genetics.......7

* Natural selection, population genetics, speciation, cladistics, population and community ecology, ecosystems, animal behavior.......7

2. General Chemistry (30 Qs)
* Atomic and molecular structure.......3
* Periodic properties.......2
* Stoichiometry.......4
* Gases.......3
* Liquids and solid.......1
* Solutions.......3
* Acids and bases.......3
* Chemical equilibrium.......3
* Oxidation reduction reactions.......3
* Thermodynamics and thermochemistry.......2
* Chemical kinetics.......2
* Nuclear reactions.......1

3. Organics Chemistry (30 Qs)
* Bonding, aromaticity.......3
* Nomenclature.......2
* Stereochemistry.......3
* Chemical and physical properties of molecules, organic analysis.......3
* Acid-base chemistry.......3
* Mechanisms (energetics, structure, stability).......6
* Reactions of the major functional groups, synthesis.......10