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Hey guys, just took my DAT this morning and happy to say that is FINALLY over with. Im not gonna post a full breakdown but maybe in the future i'l get around to it.
Just a quick glance snapshot of my scores, i got a 22AA and a 22TS
im writing this in large part becuase i feel like the majority of success could be attributed to Bootcamp. Ari made my life so much easier these past few months. In fact, even after my subscription ended, Ari was nice enough to extend it for about 2 weeks since i only had a little bit of time till my exam. I have an email conversation going with Ari right now whenever i needed to ask him any specific questions. Sometimes i thought that there had to be like 10 of him with how quickly he was able to respond to me.
Bio:
i scored a 21 on Bio. I was rather surprised because i still got questions that seemed out of no where, as per the usual it seems. My bootcamp scores went 18/18/19/20/19. I feel this section on bootcamp was THE MOST reflective of the actual test. I used the Qvault tests and they were great as well but seemed to emphasize some areas that weren't even on my exams (like all the plant questions..didn't get a single one).
Orgo scored a 22
Honestly, i was a bit upset with this section on my actual exam. I got some reactions where im just like "where in the **** was this covered!?!" My bootcamp scores were not very good on this section, it seemed that just missing one or two questions dropped my score like 6 points. i can't remember my first test score but after that i had a 19/18/21/18(DID anyone else think the 5th exam was SUPER hard?) the explanations on the questions that i got wrong were so incredibly helpful. I wish i had waited longer until doing this as i pretty much did the opposite of what was told of us in doing destroyer first a few times through then doing Bootcamp. I got a little over confident, went to bootcamp, and it didn't go great the first time around. Naturally i just had to keep retaking the tests till i was hitting the high marks. In terms of actual difficulty of the questions, this is right up to speed. Expect the same wording/complexity.
Gen Chem 24
By far my favorite section on Bootcamp. VERY reflective of the actual exam. thats really all i can say, the actual test had its share of trick questions that they threw at me but all but maybe 2 were topics that i had already experienced in Bootcamp. my scores ranged anywhere from an 18-25 and i ended with a 24 so take that for whatever you want. Don't be discouraged from Destroyer, they took overkill to a whole new level. I didn't even get anything involving nernst equation, multi step thermodynamic questions, complicated acid/bases, etc like in Destroyer. They were all more along the speed of Bootcamp.
QR: 21
this is where my love/hate with Bootcamp lies. I loved it because it was actually pretty reflective of my actual score since i got a 21/20/23/21 on the 4 exams i took (didn't take the 5th). However, it seemed a bit...off. Its hard to put my finger on it but my actual test may have just been an aberration since i had nothing on ellipses/parabolas/hyperbolas/etc and like a solid 10 questions on trig computations. Bootcamp was still invaluable nonetheless since it really forces you to practice your timing ability (math destroyer simply doesn't...far too long per exam).
Thats all for now. I didn't do too hot on the RC and PAT but i expected that.
Just a quick glance snapshot of my scores, i got a 22AA and a 22TS
im writing this in large part becuase i feel like the majority of success could be attributed to Bootcamp. Ari made my life so much easier these past few months. In fact, even after my subscription ended, Ari was nice enough to extend it for about 2 weeks since i only had a little bit of time till my exam. I have an email conversation going with Ari right now whenever i needed to ask him any specific questions. Sometimes i thought that there had to be like 10 of him with how quickly he was able to respond to me.
Bio:
i scored a 21 on Bio. I was rather surprised because i still got questions that seemed out of no where, as per the usual it seems. My bootcamp scores went 18/18/19/20/19. I feel this section on bootcamp was THE MOST reflective of the actual test. I used the Qvault tests and they were great as well but seemed to emphasize some areas that weren't even on my exams (like all the plant questions..didn't get a single one).
Orgo scored a 22
Honestly, i was a bit upset with this section on my actual exam. I got some reactions where im just like "where in the **** was this covered!?!" My bootcamp scores were not very good on this section, it seemed that just missing one or two questions dropped my score like 6 points. i can't remember my first test score but after that i had a 19/18/21/18(DID anyone else think the 5th exam was SUPER hard?) the explanations on the questions that i got wrong were so incredibly helpful. I wish i had waited longer until doing this as i pretty much did the opposite of what was told of us in doing destroyer first a few times through then doing Bootcamp. I got a little over confident, went to bootcamp, and it didn't go great the first time around. Naturally i just had to keep retaking the tests till i was hitting the high marks. In terms of actual difficulty of the questions, this is right up to speed. Expect the same wording/complexity.
Gen Chem 24
By far my favorite section on Bootcamp. VERY reflective of the actual exam. thats really all i can say, the actual test had its share of trick questions that they threw at me but all but maybe 2 were topics that i had already experienced in Bootcamp. my scores ranged anywhere from an 18-25 and i ended with a 24 so take that for whatever you want. Don't be discouraged from Destroyer, they took overkill to a whole new level. I didn't even get anything involving nernst equation, multi step thermodynamic questions, complicated acid/bases, etc like in Destroyer. They were all more along the speed of Bootcamp.
QR: 21
this is where my love/hate with Bootcamp lies. I loved it because it was actually pretty reflective of my actual score since i got a 21/20/23/21 on the 4 exams i took (didn't take the 5th). However, it seemed a bit...off. Its hard to put my finger on it but my actual test may have just been an aberration since i had nothing on ellipses/parabolas/hyperbolas/etc and like a solid 10 questions on trig computations. Bootcamp was still invaluable nonetheless since it really forces you to practice your timing ability (math destroyer simply doesn't...far too long per exam).
Thats all for now. I didn't do too hot on the RC and PAT but i expected that.
