How useful is defeat the dat??

[2thDoc11]

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Hello,

So everyone highly suggests watching chads videos for chemistry. I have stumbled upon a site called Defeat the Dat that is considered Chads website. Its basically hundreds of questions similar to his quizes, I'm sure some are more in depth and some aren't. How representstive is this of the real DAT? I'm also using the dat destroyer books and I am, well, getting destroyed so I'd like to supplement with something that helps get the basics across and perhaps make me feel a little bit better about taking this exam.
Anyone use this resource?

Thank you!

 

[MGA100]

I am not sure many people utilized defeat the dat as an actual resource while studying for the DAT. I enjoyed Chad's videos and I felt that they gave a nice summary of the concepts needed to do well on the chemistry sections for the DAT. For actual practice problems however, I would use the DAT destroyer for the general chemistry (very representative of actual dat, in my opinion) and the organic chemistry odyssey book (also by the makers of the destroyer materials) for the organic chemistry component. I thought that the organic chemistry on the DAT destroyer material was overly complex for what was being tested on the DAT but the problems from the odyssey book were much more on par in terms of difficulty. Do not worry about struggling through the destroyer problems as pretty much everybody struggles, especially the first run through of the book. Just keep learning from your mistakes and do not get discouraged. With those things being said, I would not utilize defeat the dat as a prep material unless it is completely free and, if and only if, you have gone through destroyer materials multiple times. Best of luck to you in your dat preparation!