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Just took the real thing today.
AA 20
TS 20
Bio 18
QR 21
RC 18
gen chem 21
O chem 23
Pat 19
I did Kaplan $40 blue book and Achiever $50. I got about 2 points above everything i was getting in achiever and about the same as I was getting on Kaplan. I thought achiever would help me a bunch, but after taking it I would stay way from buying it. There were many concepts on the real DAT I had never seen anywhere before - accounting major, what can you say. Gen chem was about as easy as Kaplan, and PAT was much easier than achiever but about on par with Kaplan. QR was much harder than either one of them, I thought and had some questions that I still have no idea how to solve. Achiever's reading was easier than the real thing. Overall not to bad for $90 worth of material. Keep your head up after that bio section, I thought that the ship was sunk there for a while, and just had to keep my head up, especially after just guessing on the 1st and 3rd questions. Spent the entire 15 minute break telling myself to forget about how bad i bombed the bio. Weird thing was that my 18 bio said I was in the 65th percentile, but my 18 RC said i was in the 39th percentile. People must be eating that RC up lately. I don't really care, just wanted above a 20.
I had blue scratch paper with an old style #2 pencil. Room was small, 3 chairs with a fan blowing. Chair was red course material with a pillow for back support, pillow was on the floor by the time I was done. I had the orange ear muffs on, felt like I was a forklift operator. Screens didn't move as fast as Achiever. No water or food while taking the test. Not much demographic info wanted, which was nice since most of those standardized tests ask up the ying yang for it. 15 minute tutorial at the beginning was annoying. Secretary at the end asked if my score was good, I just told her it was out of 100. She's expecting me back next year, but I think I'll be able to get an interview. Bald guy next to me was taking the Series 7 license. Another guy was taking the something to do with trucking, he was wearing wranglers, so I am just inferring. Mouse had a giant red hair in it that I had to pluck out before the test began. I ate a small lunch before and noticed some nasty teeth on the waitress, she'll have to get those fixed someday by one of you 25ers. Screens flashed at the end as if AADSAS was sucking all my bad bio scores back to the main office in consternation. I had 19 extra minutes after finishing the science part, finished a little early on the PAT maybe 5 minutes, right on time with the reading, and maybe 4 minutes to spare on the math. Went after the low hanging fruit and totally guessed on questions I had no idea about. Mood went from shock to depression to thinking about having to take it over to picking myself up to feeling good about gen chem and o chem then 1/2 time pep talk to myself to depression again on the reading and then just hoping for the best on the QR. I was again shocked on the final screen when I didn't see anything too drastically low. Lack of adrenaline left me tired afterwards and now I think I'll continue having nightmares about practice tests until they fade in a few weeks as my subconscious processes that I've already taken the test. Had a section on the benefits of excersize and mental health, after that roller coaster I need to swim the lewis and Clark route breast stroke in the winter. Actually I learned that strenuous excersize is not as beneficial as the placebo - don't quote me on that, I got in the 39th percentile for reading so really it could be the exact opposite. Thanks DAT for enlightening me.
Here's my Achiever Scores
Academic Average 1 20
Perceptual Ability 1 16
Quantitative Reasoning 1 20
Reading Comprehension 1 21
Biology 1 17
General Chemistry 1 18
Organic Chemistry 1 21
Total Science 1 19
Academic Average 2 17
Perceptual Ability 2 18
Quantitative Reasoning 2 17
Reading Comprehension 2 19
Biology 2 14
General Chemistry 2 16
Organic Chemistry 2 18
Total Science 2 16
Academic Average 3 18
Perceptual Ability 3 17
Quantitative Reasoning 3 20
Description Score
Reading Comprehension 3 21
Biology 3 14
General Chemistry 3 17
Organic Chemistry 3 19
Total Science 3 16
Kaplan scores - all around 20 or so.
I spent probably 40 hours study time total after school got out in April. I mostly went through achiever tests, which in hindsight were largely worthless especially the PAT, achiever pat just way too hard. Kaplan was incomplete as far as subject matter. The classes I took helped me mostly I guess, except never heard about of a lot of the bio stuff.
AA 20
TS 20
Bio 18
QR 21
RC 18
gen chem 21
O chem 23
Pat 19
I did Kaplan $40 blue book and Achiever $50. I got about 2 points above everything i was getting in achiever and about the same as I was getting on Kaplan. I thought achiever would help me a bunch, but after taking it I would stay way from buying it. There were many concepts on the real DAT I had never seen anywhere before - accounting major, what can you say. Gen chem was about as easy as Kaplan, and PAT was much easier than achiever but about on par with Kaplan. QR was much harder than either one of them, I thought and had some questions that I still have no idea how to solve. Achiever's reading was easier than the real thing. Overall not to bad for $90 worth of material. Keep your head up after that bio section, I thought that the ship was sunk there for a while, and just had to keep my head up, especially after just guessing on the 1st and 3rd questions. Spent the entire 15 minute break telling myself to forget about how bad i bombed the bio. Weird thing was that my 18 bio said I was in the 65th percentile, but my 18 RC said i was in the 39th percentile. People must be eating that RC up lately. I don't really care, just wanted above a 20.
I had blue scratch paper with an old style #2 pencil. Room was small, 3 chairs with a fan blowing. Chair was red course material with a pillow for back support, pillow was on the floor by the time I was done. I had the orange ear muffs on, felt like I was a forklift operator. Screens didn't move as fast as Achiever. No water or food while taking the test. Not much demographic info wanted, which was nice since most of those standardized tests ask up the ying yang for it. 15 minute tutorial at the beginning was annoying. Secretary at the end asked if my score was good, I just told her it was out of 100. She's expecting me back next year, but I think I'll be able to get an interview. Bald guy next to me was taking the Series 7 license. Another guy was taking the something to do with trucking, he was wearing wranglers, so I am just inferring. Mouse had a giant red hair in it that I had to pluck out before the test began. I ate a small lunch before and noticed some nasty teeth on the waitress, she'll have to get those fixed someday by one of you 25ers. Screens flashed at the end as if AADSAS was sucking all my bad bio scores back to the main office in consternation. I had 19 extra minutes after finishing the science part, finished a little early on the PAT maybe 5 minutes, right on time with the reading, and maybe 4 minutes to spare on the math. Went after the low hanging fruit and totally guessed on questions I had no idea about. Mood went from shock to depression to thinking about having to take it over to picking myself up to feeling good about gen chem and o chem then 1/2 time pep talk to myself to depression again on the reading and then just hoping for the best on the QR. I was again shocked on the final screen when I didn't see anything too drastically low. Lack of adrenaline left me tired afterwards and now I think I'll continue having nightmares about practice tests until they fade in a few weeks as my subconscious processes that I've already taken the test. Had a section on the benefits of excersize and mental health, after that roller coaster I need to swim the lewis and Clark route breast stroke in the winter. Actually I learned that strenuous excersize is not as beneficial as the placebo - don't quote me on that, I got in the 39th percentile for reading so really it could be the exact opposite. Thanks DAT for enlightening me.
Here's my Achiever Scores
Academic Average 1 20
Perceptual Ability 1 16
Quantitative Reasoning 1 20
Reading Comprehension 1 21
Biology 1 17
General Chemistry 1 18
Organic Chemistry 1 21
Total Science 1 19
Academic Average 2 17
Perceptual Ability 2 18
Quantitative Reasoning 2 17
Reading Comprehension 2 19
Biology 2 14
General Chemistry 2 16
Organic Chemistry 2 18
Total Science 2 16
Academic Average 3 18
Perceptual Ability 3 17
Quantitative Reasoning 3 20
Description Score
Reading Comprehension 3 21
Biology 3 14
General Chemistry 3 17
Organic Chemistry 3 19
Total Science 3 16
Kaplan scores - all around 20 or so.
I spent probably 40 hours study time total after school got out in April. I mostly went through achiever tests, which in hindsight were largely worthless especially the PAT, achiever pat just way too hard. Kaplan was incomplete as far as subject matter. The classes I took helped me mostly I guess, except never heard about of a lot of the bio stuff.
