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do you think im ready?
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Hey! I am in the same boat as you.... hopefully a floating, not sinking one!! I am taking my exam this Friday. I am really scared too. I have taken 3 practice exams and have been getting around 17-18 in science and 18-22 on PAT and qr. I am pretty worried too! I am just going to keep cracking at it I guess! I don't really see another choice I guess. It looks like most people say that they do better on the real exam so... Maybe that will give us a leg up. I don't really know!! I'm just going to do achiever 1-3 mon-wed and maybe one more full length on thursday (but I doubt it). Good luck. I've been noticing that the more full lengths I do, the easier the exams get... first, less stress so I actually read the WHOLE questions, resulting in a higher likelihood of getting Qs right, but also going over the explanations provides me with more info and is as, if not more, useful as studying from the book. Good luck (to both of us, and everyone else who is losing sleep, weight, hair and everything else over this) lol.
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yorkiepoo said:Hey! I am in the same boat as you.... hopefully a floating, not sinking one!! I am taking my exam this Friday. I am really scared too. I have taken 3 practice exams and have been getting around 17-18 in science and 18-22 on PAT and qr. I am pretty worried too! I am just going to keep cracking at it I guess! I don't really see another choice I guess. It looks like most people say that they do better on the real exam so... Maybe that will give us a leg up. I don't really know!! I'm just going to do achiever 1-3 mon-wed and maybe one more full length on thursday (but I doubt it). Good luck. I've been noticing that the more full lengths I do, the easier the exams get... first, less stress so I actually read the WHOLE questions, resulting in a higher likelihood of getting Qs right, but also going over the explanations provides me with more info and is as, if not more, useful as studying from the book. Good luck (to both of us, and everyone else who is losing sleep, weight, hair and everything else over this) lol.
i hope losing weight is the case for me, but instead, i turn to food for comfort... so far this whole summer I have gained 10 lbs. and that's not cool at all... but that's the least of my worries...
yeah I don't know if i should take wednesday off or if i should force myself with another full-length... we'll see, if i don't feel confident enough tuesday night, then i will definitely have to take another one on wednesday. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
to add more stress (and a few more pounds) i have to move out my apt on the 24th as well, so studying + packing= 😱 😕
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combined! **sigh** and my classes for informal post-bacc start next week... oioioioioi... the horror! the horror! the horror!
Sorry ..things will work out...I ended up losin weight and bf problems..sux
muhzleeezuh said:i hope losing weight is the case for me, but instead, i turn to food for comfort... so far this whole summer I have gained 10 lbs. and that's not cool at all... but that's the least of my worries...
yeah I don't know if i should take wednesday off or if i should force myself with another full-length... we'll see, if i don't feel confident enough tuesday night, then i will definitely have to take another one on wednesday. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
to add more stress (and a few more pounds) i have to move out my apt on the 24th as well, so studying + packing= 😱 😕
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tissy. you post-poned your DAT!??
I don't think most people walk into the testing center feeling like they are prepared for the DAT. However, most people post about how freaked out they are then come back on here during the afternoon posting that they ended up doing GREAT. Hopefully your situation will probably be the same. Good luck on the DAT.
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I would stay away from doing any major studying the day before the test, like taking a full length test. Just let your brain relax. I know the day leading up to my test I was a nervous wreck, I felt like I was goin to bomb it. I took a couple days off of studying to exercise, go shop, and just be a lazy ass. I think that did the job for me. Come test day I was less nervous. I did pretty well on the test too.
Good luck to you!!
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yeah.. i'm not sure that taking a full length is a good idea the day before... we all know how draining it is to do 4 sections in 3.5 hours. not that fun 😉 But I think just reading over notes... maybe doing some PAT practice is a good idea. Plus if you are freaking out and taking a practice... you won't do that well which in turn will make you freak out even more because the real think will be lurking around the corner. so yeah... I don't plan to do a full length the day before... ahhh 😛
Well I orginally wanted to take it August 25th but the testing center didn't have anything available but the 30th or September 8th..So I was SOL
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haha ok. I'm taking mine the 28th and were getting kinda similar scores I aws hoping you would take it before me lol.
Shame on you...LOL 😛
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ok, i guess i'll just do a full-length today and tomorrow and pack my stuff mostly on wednesday... im really not freaking out, but what worries me is that im not worried... i guess it's a good thing but at the same time i don't want to think that i'm not taking this test seriously... well, whatever, 2 more days and this should be fine... thanks for the support everyone!!! 😍
