Frap Or No Frap That Is The Question

[drgreen]

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let's start a poll of who got frapped and who didn't get frapped, so we can get an idea of our odds.

i know, i know, why am i just not studying?!
the answer is, idk.

If you've already taken the test reply "Frap" or "No Frap"

 

[Hugh Mannity]

How about you just make a poll and not have a bunch of posts.

 

[klutzy1987]

Poll is a better idea. I did not get frapped although my reading passage was impossibly difficult as well. Mine was the piano passage. Trust me you dont want that one either.

 

[drgreen]

Pretty new here, don't know how to make a poll, ill figure it out. thanks for the feedback.

 

[bumpski20]

frapped 😳

 

[abc123destroy]

Poll is a better idea. I did not get frapped although my reading passage was impossibly difficult as well. Mine was the piano passage. Trust me you dont want that one either.

You thought the piano passage was hard? Besides one poorly worded question, the whole RC was very easy. I guess a lot of people on here are not well rounded in the sense that they know science, but can't read or write.

 

[osimsDDS]

You thought the piano passage was hard? Besides one poorly worded question, the whole RC was very easy. I guess a lot of people on here are not well rounded in the sense that they know science, but can't read or write.

Do you speak 2 languages??? Many people on here come from different countries and speak 2 languages like myself...so i dont think its fair to say that people are not well rounded on here, its a huge generalization among those who are from different countries...this is America...

 

[drgreen]

Yeah, not the nicest thing to say.

 

[PooyaH]

You thought the piano passage was hard? Besides one poorly worded question, the whole RC was very easy. I guess a lot of people on here are not well rounded in the sense that they know science, but can't read or write.

I think if you go to a new country and have to take a test like DAT, then you couldn't do any of the three!

 

[osimsDDS]

id take knowing 2 languages any day rather than scoring well on a timed reading section hahaha

 

[Andrew324]

id take knowing 2 languages any day rather than scoring well on a timed reading section hahaha

So would I, but it also depends on what the stakes are...

 

[DividedByZero]

Poll is a better idea. I did not get frapped although my reading passage was impossibly difficult as well. Mine was the piano passage. Trust me you dont want that one either.

i second this motion! piano's are evil.

also, i don't see what the big deal is about the frap passage. maybe it was because i TA'd a class on biological techniques (one of which includes frap) anyway...

 

[abc123destroy]

English is the language of science. Most high impact journals are in English. If you can't get at least a 20 or so on RC, you aren't going to be able to communicate professionally with patients or other doctors. Furthermore, you will not be able to comprehend the scientific literature that you should be keeping up on as a matter of course. I commend those of you who can speak a second, third, or fourth language. That is very valuable. However, most dental schools want to see a respectable RC score. Sorry, that's what you're facing, and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. I would go so far as to wager that RC is more important than TS at a significant number of schools. AA is most important of course. One last point: the DAT RC is much easier than the RC on other exams such as the GMAT.

 

[osimsDDS]

English is the language of science. Most high impact journals are in English. If you can't get at least a 20 or so on RC, you aren't going to be able to communicate professionally with patients or other doctors. Furthermore, you will not be able to comprehend the scientific literature that you should be keeping up on as a matter of course. I commend those of you who can speak a second, third, or fourth language. That is very valuable. However, most dental schools want to see a respectable RC score. Sorry, that's what you're facing, and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. I would go so far as to wager that RC is more important than TS at a significant number of schools. AA is most important of course. One last point: the DAT RC is much easier than the RC on other exams such as the GMAT.

first of all not every single dental office in the united states caters just to americans unless your living in central america, i know of many many many dental practices where their primary patients are from the native tongue of the dentist...you american we get it, so your dental practice will cater to american's...we all know how to speak, write, and read english but have you ever figured that reading sometimes takes 1 person longer to comprehend something than another person (aka someone who does not know a second language and was not born in the US)...so in a times test such as the DAT where you have to comprehend something in 1 hour might take you and hour but another person 2 hours, either way the comprehension is the same correct...my point is that when your in the real world reading dental journals and research journals you can take all day long, the most important thing is to comprehend the article you read...thats great that you can comprehend the RC passages on the DAT in an hour but for someone else it may take longer...at the end of the day we both can comprehend the same passages....

But hey congratulations that your better at comprehending 3 passages in 60 min than most of people...nice job

 

[abc123destroy]

first of all not every single dental office in the united states caters just to americans unless your living in central america, i know of many many many dental practices where their primary patients are from the native tongue of the dentist...you american we get it, so your dental practice will cater to american's...we all know how to speak, write, and read english but have you ever figured that reading sometimes takes 1 person longer to comprehend something than another person (aka someone who does not know a second language and was not born in the US)...so in a times test such as the DAT where you have to comprehend something in 1 hour might take you and hour but another person 2 hours, either way the comprehension is the same correct...my point is that when your in the real world reading dental journals and research journals you can take all day long, the most important thing is to comprehend the article you read...thats great that you can comprehend the RC passages on the DAT in an hour but for someone else it may take longer...at the end of the day we both can comprehend the same passages....

But hey congratulations that your better at comprehending 3 passages in 60 min than most of people...nice job

Thank you for making my point.

 

[osimsDDS]

a pretty big part of dentistry is your personality, i can tell you have a pretty $hitty personality, I would not enjoy coming into your office...

 

[Glycogen]

a pretty big part of dentistry is your personality, i can tell you have a pretty $hitty personality, I would not enjoy coming into your office...

😀😀😀.

 

[drgreen]

Thank you for making my point.

Is this guy for real?!

 

[klutzy1987]

English is the language of science. Most high impact journals are in English. If you can't get at least a 20 or so on RC, you aren't going to be able to communicate professionally with patients or other doctors. Furthermore, you will not be able to comprehend the scientific literature that you should be keeping up on as a matter of course. I commend those of you who can speak a second, third, or fourth language. That is very valuable. However, most dental schools want to see a respectable RC score. Sorry, that's what you're facing, and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. I would go so far as to wager that RC is more important than TS at a significant number of schools. AA is most important of course. One last point: the DAT RC is much easier than the RC on other exams such as the GMAT.

What a *******, not all of the information is given in every reading passage and often times depending on which test you get there are tone questions and the like which are a matter of opinion. I got a 18 in RC yet i got a 1400 on the SAT and i have straight A's throughout college in every (course let alone reading and writing). The RC can be very opinion based and often times the passages are not written well. I had a passage about piano's and to answer some of the question either you had to know physics or had to have a prior understanding of a piano. Then you get BS questions about the best way to finish a paragraph or a good last sentence and your like wtf why is their ending any better than mine. I just hope you either get the ethics passage or my passages and get a freaking 16 on the RC. Then you will not be shooting your mouth off without knowing what you are talking about. It is possible to get straight forward easy passages but there are a quite a few passages which are rediculously complucated and then you get wierd questions to boot. Good luck on your DAT because no matter how well you think you read you will need luck so as to not get an impossible passage.

 

[harrygt]

English is the language of science. Most high impact journals are in English. If you can't get at least a 20 or so on RC, you aren't going to be able to communicate professionally with patients or other doctors. Furthermore, you will not be able to comprehend the scientific literature that you should be keeping up on as a matter of course. I commend those of you who can speak a second, third, or fourth language. That is very valuable. However, most dental schools want to see a respectable RC score. Sorry, that's what you're facing, and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. I would go so far as to wager that RC is more important than TS at a significant number of schools. AA is most important of course. One last point: the DAT RC is much easier than the RC on other exams such as the GMAT.

Boy, you gotta be from South Carolina. By the way, what is it with the fake abcdefgh12345678 user ID?