love/hate with Kaplan Blue book

[bigstix808]

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so i took the DAT last year studying with my old notes and text books, with a small aid of my girlfriends 2 yr old Kaplan book (2005/2006 ed maybe?) for a QUICK review and the practice questions (did pretty good for only studying a month - 19/20). well, i'm taking the DAT again so i decided to buy the newest Kap book mainly for the quick notes and maybe some new/different questions and a CD and PAT problems, etc....

but HELLLLL NOOO!! that book is EXACTLY the same as it was 3 years ago...WTF!?!?! could they at least give you some new questions or something!?!?! and to top things off, the friggin CD doesn't work because my "virtual memory is too low" 😕. now i'm A+ certified and last i checked, running XP pro with 4 Gigs or RAM and over 2 terabytes of hard drive space with a 1099 FSB is WELL more than what i need to run some petty little flash program....

HONESTLY!!!....... <--you know it's bad when you start laughing at a problem


sorry guys...i had to vent. i'm not taking the test til May, but i'm graduating 10 days before then, trying to finish my research, and plan a backpacking trip all before i take the test. hope all ya'll are doin good! 😎 but seriously, you feel me?!?!?!

 

[TheWiredNerv]

This is why kaplan is archaic for the biology, RC, PAT and QR sections (except for those ungodly hard math word problems.) The blue book does do a good job with gchem and ochem though.

 

[bigstix808]

duely noted....haha.


so you would say that the math in that book is harder than the real thing....it's been too long...i can't remember...

 

[TheWiredNerv]

No. Just the one word problem set that is forever long. Other than that the math is much easier.

 

[Montserrat]

Kaplan's idea of research and updating the blue book is composed of deciphering the current year, and throwing a new cover (with the new year) onto the same old, antiquated review text.

Kaplan is fine for chem, though I am still a large supporter of the MCAT hyperlearning series for the chem sections, and a good chunk of the bio section. A bit overkill, but when studying for an exam like the DAT, why not shoot beyond the bar ?