Dat vs mcat

[daehyuny]

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Hi guys Im a sophomore trying to prepare for the DAT

some of the threads recoomended that hyperlearning mcat by princeton

but I was wondering if MCAT and DAT biology topics are the same..?

I know that in MCAT does not contain Plants. But what else? would every topics covered in MCAT covered in DAT too?

And between examkracker and hyperlearning,, which is better?

And also in biological diversity, how much in detail do we have to know for each kingdom? like cliff's AP bio talks more in detail than Kaplan DAT..
do i have to know more detail than Cliffs Ap bio?

I would appreciate your replies that can answer any of my questions

thanks in advance

 

[eldirty]

I dont know much about the MCAT except what ive heard from others. Apparently the MCAT has physics and a writing sample and is lacking reading comp and perceptual sections. For the DAT i used cliffs and thought it did a great job preparing me for test day. I personally think that if you know cliffs up and down you will be more than prepared for most questions you might see.

 

[bigstix808]

Hi guys Im a sophomore trying to prepare for the DAT

some of the threads recoomended that hyperlearning mcat by princeton

but I was wondering if MCAT and DAT biology topics are the same..?

I know that in MCAT does not contain Plants. But what else? would every topics covered in MCAT covered in DAT too?

And between examkracker and hyperlearning,, which is better?

And also in biological diversity, how much in detail do we have to know for each kingdom? like cliff's AP bio talks more in detail than Kaplan DAT..
do i have to know more detail than Cliffs Ap bio?

I would appreciate your replies that can answer any of my questions

thanks in advance

not to be rude, but do a search. this has been covered wayyyyyy too many times.

 

[daehyuny]

not to be rude, but do a search. this has been covered wayyyyyy too many times.

not to be rude, but if you see my join date, it's today,

I had no idea if it was covered, i'll do a search.. thanks

 

[Svart Aske]

Ignore the stuff that tries to teach you how to tackle MCAT problems, and just learn the actual material.

 

[denner]

Ignore the stuff that tries to teach you how to tackle MCAT problems, and just learn the actual material.

This is very important because the questions are nothing alike. Having taken the MCAT (ya, I know, I'm an idiot ), I can say it's very different in its structure with its passages and what not, and to tell you the truth, you can sometimes get away with less knowledge of specifics on the MCAT because of the information that is supposed to be inferred from the passages themselves if you are a good test taker. I personally find it odd just how different they are.

I dont know much about the MCAT except what ive heard from others. Apparently the MCAT has physics and a writing sample and is lacking reading comp and perceptual sections. For the DAT i used cliffs and thought it did a great job preparing me for test day. I personally think that if you know cliffs up and down you will be more than prepared for most questions you might see.

It does have a verbal reasoning section which I'm guessing is similar to the reading comprehension in the DAT. I'm actually curious to know what the exact difference between them is. From reading many posts on the DAT forums, I think most DAT takers would not like like the verbal reasoning section of the MCAT because If I remember correctly their passages were ones in which you had to infer theme, tone, etc. from the passages, while it seems most of these DAT posts refer to a "search and destroy" method which wouldn't be useful in the MCAT verbal reasoning.

 

[lhtran07]

It does have a verbal reasoning section which I'm guessing is similar to the reading comprehension in the DAT. I'm actually curious to know what the exact difference between them is. From reading many posts on the DAT forums, I think most DAT takers would not like like the verbal reasoning section of the MCAT because If I remember correctly their passages were ones in which you had to infer theme, tone, etc. from the passages, while it seems most of these DAT posts refer to a "search and destroy" method which wouldn't be useful in the MCAT verbal reasoning.

That about sums it up. The MCAT verbal reasoning section has a variety of topics (humanities, social sciences, etc) as opposed to the RC section of the DAT which has more technical/scientific passages.

The MCAT verbal questions have tons of tone/theme questions, so I thought it was much harder than the DAT RC...which I basically just did the "search and destroy". Even the tone questions on the RC were much easier. But that could be because I'm more familiar with the science passages on the RC having done research and reading a lot of scientific articles/journals during undergrad....so I was used to wading through all the technical mumbo jumbo and extracting the info I really need.