How to study for the DAT during school.. RETAKE

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Took the DAT Today (19AA, 19TS, 19 PAT) - Planning on retaking in around January or March (during winter or spring break)..

I did not use DAT Destroyer so I am planning on purchasing that after taking a MUCH NEEDED break for a while.

How do you recommend studying while in school? Should I do it on weekends or.. how should I do that
 
What do you think your weaknesses are?

for Bio, I would suggest going through a Bio chapter every week from cliffs ( If you can fit 2 chapters a week that would cut down your time). Look up Ferrlais notes and do destroyer questions. Use the destroyer like a textbook rather than a question bank. Understand what the answers are and make flash cards on them. Whenever you're confused on something, look it up on YouTube or the net in general.

For PAT, I would suggest practice a PAT test every 2-3 days.

Chem - Use Chads and DAT destroyer. Since you have time, you can go through the destroyer 2-3 times over if you devout your time to it. Make sure you understand every small thing in the destroyer.

Purchase the MATH destoyer along with the DAT destroyer. These are 2 needed resources when studying for the DAT.

And if you can, buy DAT qvault or Bootcamp(both if you can afford it). They're both for 3 months, so buy them around the end of October, beginning of Nov. Q-vault is a great question bank.
 
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If you can do destroyer while in school then go ahead. Destroyer takes a while to do, but try and balance a schedule out and see if you can take it in December or January. Or you can try and get some amount done til December and over Christmas break go all out with finishing anything that needs to be done. Then take it right before your break ends.
 
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