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Here's something I thought I should share with all about my friend's recent DAT experience. About a month ago he had the DAT scheduled and finally decided that he was going to take it. When it came to two days before he was under a lot of stress and LSU was fixing to play for their way into the final four. He tried to reschedule it, but they wouldn't let him...so he had no other choice. The only prep he had done was reading the Kaplan book the summer before. Then he went and bought the sparknotes 4 page cheatsheet reviews for all the science subjects on the test (about 5 total). The test was on Friday and he started studying thursday morning. Now this is a 3.2 student...smart...but average at LSU. He took the Kaplan practice test (edition 3) and scored 16's across the board except a 17 in orgo. He watched some of the tournament, laughed a little about the idea of taking the big one the next day, and ate lunch with us in the fraternity house. He then went back into his room and review all the answers (even the wrong ones) for the science and math sections. Then he watched the LSU game and about 10pm he started looking at sparknotes. Went to sleep after a few hours and woke up early and studied sparknotes until right before taking the test (taking a break for a good breakfast and a small lunch). At 12:30 he began....started feeling really confident (except the some of the general chem becuase he didn't remember kinetic formulas). He finished with about 5 mins left. Took the percept and finished with about 2 minutes. Break. Took the reading and read through every passage (including the stock market one) and answered the questions with about 5 minutes left. He then took the math...skipped all the trig for the most part with a decent guess...and had about 4 he had to put "c" at the end.
-Summary: 21 AA 21 Percept.... with a 24 in reading...only one sub 20 (chemistry>becuase of kinetics)...If he can do it....we all can....
Most important aspect he told me is not necessarily knowing the right answer off the bat, but being able to know which ones are wrong, then for the ones he guessed he chose the ones not like the others. Don't know how much this helps but it worked for him, and I'm just trying to make you 2-3 week preparers feel a little more confident about your 16s on the Kaplan test. Also the best thing was the short term memory from sparknotes and remembering a few things from class that helped rule out bad choices.
lata
-Summary: 21 AA 21 Percept.... with a 24 in reading...only one sub 20 (chemistry>becuase of kinetics)...If he can do it....we all can....
Most important aspect he told me is not necessarily knowing the right answer off the bat, but being able to know which ones are wrong, then for the ones he guessed he chose the ones not like the others. Don't know how much this helps but it worked for him, and I'm just trying to make you 2-3 week preparers feel a little more confident about your 16s on the Kaplan test. Also the best thing was the short term memory from sparknotes and remembering a few things from class that helped rule out bad choices.
lata
