Has anyone just used Kaplan?

[skiphotsauce]

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I am almost done going through the online course and think it's great so far. There are so many (almost too many) quizzes and tests to take for all the subjects. Along with the big book of review notes and all the online material including 4 or 5 full-length exams , this seems like it would be enough but I see that many complain that Kaplan didn't work that well. Does anyone on here just use the Kaplan material and do well?

I'm taking the exam in a few weeks and getting nervous. I'm thinking of ordering the Topscore Pro for some more exams.

 

[zellyen]

i can tell you its not bad for the chemistry sections, but bio... o man lol

 

[Atticus]

I used kaplan white book and kaplan section tests for the sciences and rc and got a 21 In bio, 23 in organic, 18 in chem, and a 23 in rc... I used kaplan and crack dat pat for pat and got a 21.

 

[Atticus]

Oh and I forgot to say that I haven't taken any of the ds pre-reqs since fall 2005 and spring 2006 so I has to rely on kaplan for a lot my knowledge.

 

[koolkoko]

i mostly used kaplan
it's a great place to get your basics down and i liked the format of the online quizzes and tests

i did also buy a copy of the destroyer though
and did all the sectiosn except for gen chem

i do think kaplan's pat is too easy...i haven't tried cdp but you might want to look into that because people say its alot more similar to the real DAT

my scores:
AA 19
TS 20
PAT 19

 

[skiphotsauce]

Thanks for the responses

I hear the bio is so random though, it seems that unless you memorize a textbook, a lot of it is up to luck?

 

[The Anhedonia]

i would say that bio is more broad than random.

i took the kaplan course. the instructor said (under the table) "use anything but kaplan to study for bio. so i used Barron's

 

[adn244]

i only studied kaplan, took the DAT the last cycle and got 18AA/19TS/21PAT
and nothing else, that was purely kaplan material. i agree with the other posters, gchem and ochem are good with kaplan, but you should look for other resources for bio (i recommend cliffs ap bio) if you wanna score high.

 

[yct87]

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