My DAT(5-19-16)

[ahayes2013]

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Hello everyone, I just took the DAT Thursday, and I think I did pretty well. (But everyone on here seems to be killing it with 22+'s) so i wanted to see what everyone thinks about my scores.

A quick note on the study supplies I used: DAT Bootcamp(A must have for PAT i feel), AP Biology, 2014 DAT Destroyer, Kaplan Review Book, Chad's Videos, and some of the Math Destroyer.(It mostly was used to destroy my confidence)

I was very nervous about the QR section because I am very weak in math, but I ended up with not too bad of a score, but anyways.

PA: 21
QR: 18
RC: 21
BIO: 19
GC: 20
OC: 24
TS: 20
AA: 20

Really wish i could of brought that biology 19 up to a 20 especially because it would have turned my AA into a 21. So what do you guys think?

 

[Likkriue]

They look good, did you take it in NYC? I saw like 5 people taking the DAT as well as me on Thursday as well. It shows that not everyone posts their dat grades on sdn so don't be intimidated by a select few people scoring 22+. SDN is not representative of what reality is.

19.9 is the average dat for people enrolling so you did great! Congratulations! With a good gpa and ECs you will definitely get some invites.

 

[rdub]

Nice work! I think you will have no problem getting interviews as long as you have a decent gpa.
Seeing that you are unhappy with your bio score, I'm curious how much time you spent with DAT Destroyer? Did you know everything in the bio section back and forth? I am going through it right now and just wondering how helpful you thought it was.
Also, how did your bootcamp practice test scores compare with your actual score?

 

[ahayes2013]

@Likkriue No sir, I took it in Nashville, TN and thanks! My GPA is good but my EC's are kind of weird(Football, football, football.. lol) but I will probably get into those on another post. Thanks again though!

@russelldw I did one complete lap through the destroyer for bio. I started my second lap through and only got to like question 150 before it was exam time lol. I did not know everything in the destroyer, but I noticed I knew a lot more my second time through and was getting way more questions right. I think it is super helpful because just like the Destroyer and Bootcamp the real bio section is so broad it is difficult so I feel the destroyer is helpful in finding areas you may want to study up some more on.

As for Bootcamp scores.

BIO is hard to judge because I was up and down, went from 16 to 20 to 24 and back down.
GC was pretty accurate, I averaged 20 got 20 on real DAT.
OC scored lower on Bootcamp and i expected to because I'm pretty good at organic i expected to do better then 18 or 19 I would get on Bootcamp
PAT i improved from 16s to 18s to constant 20s and got a 21 on real
RC kind of ranged like BIO i got 18s then a 25 then a 20.
QR I never made higher then a 16 nor lower. I was really scared of this section and worried it would drag my AA down, i guess it still kind of did but not as bad as I was expecting.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!