JUST got done with DAT...

[sinned]

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Okay just came back from the testing center...my scores are as follows,

AA:21 😉 92.2%
PA:19
QR:19
RC:19
BIO:18 😳
GC:20 😀
OC:29 😎
TS:20 😀

Guess which section was the hardest, you guessed it! BIO!!!
Those questions were nothing like the Kaplan other than the easy ones, there seems to be no average difficulty questions. The easy ones seemed like give-aways, while the hard ones were HARD...gotta use good elimination of answers procedures to solve the hard ones. (*EDIT: for some reason I had no taxonomy and no evolution, but had a tricky dihybrid cross, so beaware of the dihybrid cross as well)

Organic Chem was very straight forward with gringnard reagents, additions to carbonyl carbons, accessing acidity of hydrogen in a particular molecule. This is very comprehensive of the Kaplan book and you will do fine.

Chem was straight forward as well except there are more theory type questions and about 12 solving problems, but some were set up in the answers so alot of the hard calculations are not involved.

Only things notable about the PAT was that the angles were freaking hard and some of the hole-punching questions had weird folds...like a fold with some space left over, dont know how to explain it...

RC section is fairly straightforward, except makes you think a little bit more, and is about 15 paragraphs long.

QR is generally slightly easier and just know your algebra, geometry really well and the formulas for cos, sin, tan stuff like that. about 15 word problems dealing with interests, sides of rectangles and triangles, etc.

I hope this helps!
Im out to grab some brews tonight...take cares!

Dennis

 

[briansle]

Wow, Great scores!!

Congratulations, a huge burden has been lifted off your shoulders.



Deja Vu, Your AA and PAT are exactly the same as mine

 

[Sprgrover]

Stellar job, sinned! I am impressed with the recent rash of awesome scores and am glad to see everyone doing so well. Enjoy being free from the DAT and have fun filling out all of those secondaries that will come flooding through your mailbox! 👍

 

[sinned]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the help I got here...hopefully I can still hang around and help others out with their DATs...

 

[justletmein]

nice work! enjoy your break! you deserve it!

 

[Lilith]

Congratulations on your awesome scores! Especially that 29 in OC! Enjoy your weekend.

 

[sinned]

thanks,

Im out to get a six-pack and a bottle of wine (syrah) to celebrate by myself tonight 😀

 

[sinned]

OH, one thing I want to tell you future DAT takers is that, you can have small breaks in between the Sciences section and PAT by not clicking on "okay" when the prompt comes out in the window, as long as you dont press that button it wont go to the PAT section, so that you can gather your thoughts...then after PAT you have 15 minutes of break, longer if you dont click "okay" when they ask you if you want to move on to the break...then you can also have a small break in between RC and QR by doing the same...so dont stress out too much guys...hope that helps!

 

[simpsonj24]

Hey good job. I have a question though. I also got 21 AA and it says 96.6 on the sheet sylvan gave me and yours below says 92.2, why the difference?

 

[sinned]

probably more people are taking the DAT's and doing well on it, so as time goes by, the percentile drops...when you took it, less people had scores in the 20+ range...

 

[ItsGavinC]

Hey good job. I have a question though. I also got 21 AA and it says 96.6 on the sheet sylvan gave me and yours below says 92.2, why the difference?

He took a different test than you did. Each test is aligned with other similar tests through some common core questions. Different core questions = a different form the test. Same core questions = a same form of the test.

Same forms of the test have the same percentile breakdowns, whereas other forms have different percentile breakdowns, based on the scores of those who took that same form of the test.

When I called the ADA a couple of years ago they said that only 20-25 core questions need to be the same on the entire test for it to match up with other tests. So even tests that ARE the same form of the test (percentiles match) might only have 20-25 questions in common.

 

[briansle]

I don't quite follow, can you explain it in different terms? Cause I got 21 96.6 and I don't know what the diff is between 92% and 96%.

 

[drusier]

did u find any questions related to genetics, evolution, or zoology? I feel strong im most other areas but weak in these. I want to apply my time efficiently as I take the DAT on the 13th...thanks so much.

 

[sinned]

read above, there was a dihybrid cross, a weird embryology question, and couple photosynthesis and others were the usual stuff you should find in the kaplan book...no evolution or taxonomy, or zoology for that matter...

 

[Rezdawg]

I don't quite follow, can you explain it in different terms? Cause I got 21 96.6 and I don't know what the diff is between 92% and 96%.

I got 21 and 96.6%.

We had a similar exam, one that was different than what Sinned received. Therefore, his percentile is different than ours.

 

[DrTacoElf]

Good job with ochem you matched my score 🙂

 

[sinned]

Good job with ochem you matched my score 🙂

😀 What was your Academic Average?

 

[DrTacoElf]

😀 What was your Academic Average?

23

 

[sinned]

nice...my scores on the RC and PAT dropped about 3 points each...which I didn't expect

I thought I would have more scores above the 20 range...but I couldnt focus on the RC section at all in the beginning...my topics were, asteroids, glutamate receptors, and stuff like angiograms, mri, ect's