Focus on practice or content review before DAT?

[caloc]

I've been studying for the DAT for two months so far. My scores on the practice exams on DAT Bootcamp are around 18s and 19s. I've reviewed my answers, but is it worth redoing again if I already know the answers? Then, if I get 26-27s, those aren't really reflective of how I'd do on the actual DAT, right? Even though on Ari's study schedule, when you take the full length exams, you're basically doing it a second time.
(I'm also wondering if, when people post their Bootcamp scores, is that from doing them a second time?)

I have enough time to go through Destroyer at least 3 times so of course I would do very well on them by now. Should I just stick to being able to get through Destroyer 100% or should I go back and focus on content review (rereading Feralis notes, notes from Chads, etc)? I have a lot of MCAT material (examcrackers, princeton review). Should I bother going over those?

Should I get a subscription to another website to do more practices? I have about one month left until my anticipated test date. If I spend around 3 weeks making sure I know as much as I possibly can in the Destroyer, what can I use to gauge my readiness for the exam? Is the 2009 exam enough? Thank you!

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[averageasian]

content review. review chads videos, cliffs ap bio etc. then start dat destroyer and dat bootcamp

 

[tyjacobs]

I've been studying for the DAT for two months so far. My scores on the practice exams on DAT Bootcamp are around 18s and 19s. I've reviewed my answers, but is it worth redoing again if I already know the answers? Then, if I get 26-27s, those aren't really reflective of how I'd do on the actual DAT, right? Even though on Ari's study schedule, when you take the full length exams, you're basically doing it a second time.
(I'm also wondering if, when people post their Bootcamp scores, is that from doing them a second time?)

I have enough time to go through Destroyer at least 3 times so of course I would do very well on them by now. Should I just stick to being able to get through Destroyer 100% or should I go back and focus on content review (rereading Feralis notes, notes from Chads, etc)? I have a lot of MCAT material (examcrackers, princeton review). Should I bother going over those?

Should I get a subscription to another website to do more practices? I have about one month left until my anticipated test date. If I spend around 3 weeks making sure I know as much as I possibly can in the Destroyer, what can I use to gauge my readiness for the exam? Is the 2009 exam enough? Thank you!

right before the DAT if I were you I'd do a content review of DAT bootcamp and DAT destroyer topics -- both of these materials contain high yield information and isn't tremendously time consuming to do


or you can buy DAT genius, do exams and look at their explanations -- lots of people on SDN love DAT genius's explanations

 

[Bingwen]

I agree with both of the people above. One thing with going back through is look at what you got wrong and then study that material (i.e. if you struggled with angiosperm life cycle go back through that material.) Be honest with yourself on what you know well as a topic and what you struggle with and focus your studies around your week points.

 

[FeralisExtremum]

I would say you should always be doing some content review after you take practice exams. Pick out the stuff you got wrong and add/highlight that material in your notes so you know it's an area you need to work on. You don't want to just memorize the questions you got wrong because it's not like the DAT is just going to ask identical questions to practice material. Focus on understanding why you got those questions wrong and improving your content review in those areas. As you get closer to the exam you want to shift more from content review to practice questions and full length tests, so you don't have time to review all the content - as I got closer and closer to the exam my content review was strictly on material I had made errors in.

As for the MCAT material, I used some but the vast majority of it was low-yield. I'd stick to DAT review material, it's more than enough.