Finished DAT!!!! Sep. 7

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It's my first post but certainly not new to SDN. Thanks everyone who provided experience taking their DAT. It helped so much getting ready for it.

Here are my scores

PAT 17 🙁
QR 19 😉
RC 17 🙁
Bio 20 😎
GC 22 🙄
OC 20 😉
TS 21 😛
AA 20 😀

My gpa is 3.43 and science of 3.24.

I have applied to about 15 schools. How do you guys think of my chances?

PAT: I thought I did better than this. Bought the Crack PAT, did top score, and achiever. Hole punching is comparable to Crack the dat. maybe little bit easier. Angle ranking, similar to crack PAT. TFE is more like achiever, as line counting did not work for most of the problems. everything else is very similar to everything else

BIO: I used destroyer, Kaplan, Campbell, Cliff notes. Had some very random questions as others have mentioned. I had to guess and comeback and think. Corrected three problems that were probably wrong. Some I just had to guess. Couple of diagrams.

GChem: I did better than expected. I never got above 18 on Top score and achiever. Used TP, Achiever, Destroyer, Kaplan, text book once in awhile

OC: I thought I was gonna get 23 or something. I had most confidence in this section. I don't know what I got wrong. Used mainly kaplan blue book and destroyer.

The common theme here is: Destroyer!!!

Reading: First two were pain in the @$$. Last one was interesting read so it made it easier.

QR: It's all about TIME MANAGEMENT!!! I just moved on if it was complex problem. Then came back afterwards when I was done with easier ones.

Oh by the way, make sure you don't drink too much liquid before the test. I had to go twice while I was taking the test!!! I was like #&*$&$&$*@#!

Well Feel free to ask me any questions. SDN is awesome community and I hope I can give something back.

People kept sending me PM about bio diagrams. As others have mentioned, just go through microscopic slides of cell organelles (mitochondria, golgi, choloplasts ...etc) I think this is sufficient.
 
wat did you use for QR? and which types did you skip as soon as you saw them? nice scores btw
 
For QR, I just studied destroyer and top score mainly. Did some Kaplan problems. In my opinion, QR is not that difficult. I think the issue is being able to manage the time, because there were plenty of very doable questions. Some I had no idea so I guessed and moved on and came back only after I went through all the questions. I had quite a few non-word problem as well. :luck: