Kaplan practice test results. good? bad?

[Mattjhe]

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Hello everyone. I have spent the last few days on this website and have found a lot of great information. Many people have posted their results and received incredible feedback from the community and I'm hoping the same will happen for me. My score today from the Kaplan CD (2008-2009 book) was

BS:17
GC:17
OC:18
PA:21
RC:18
QR:20

I have heard that some people say this test is harder than the real DAT. Is that true? I have only spent 3 weeks studying for this exam. I found it hard to study during the semester with all my other courses.

I am taking the real DAT on June 16 and I was hoping if there is a good free review source online that I haven't heard about.

Thank you for reading.

 

[nze82]

Hello everyone. I have spent the last few days on this website and have found a lot of great information. Many people have posted their results and received incredible feedback from the community and I'm hoping the same will happen for me. My score today from the Kaplan CD (2008-2009 book) was

BS:17
GC:17
OC:18
PA:21
RC:18
QR:20

I have heard that some people say this test is harder than the real DAT. Is that true? I have only spent 3 weeks studying for this exam. I found it hard to study during the semester with all my other courses.

I am taking the real DAT on June 16 and I was hoping if there is a good free review source online that I haven't heard about.

Thank you for reading.

Some aspects of KAPLAN tests are harder than the real thing, while others are much easier. To give you an example, I thought KAPLAN's G-chem was harder compared to the real thing, but the PAT was way much easier compared to what you'll see on the actual DAT.
I was scoring somewhere between 21-22 on all KAPLAN exams and I got the same scores on the real thing. So, to me, I think KAPLAN was a good representation of the real test (except of course the PAT section). Some people think when they hear that KAPLAN is harder than the actual DAT, it means that their score will jump from a 19 for KAPLAN to a 24 on the real thing. That simply isn't the case. If you're consistantly scoring between 19-20 on KAPLAN, it's very likely that you'll end up scoring in the same range on the actual DAT. So don't get all tied up trying to figure out which is harder and which is easier. Just try to score as high as possible.

Good Luck👍

 

[Mattjhe]

OK. thank you.