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Thanks for all the people providing insight. It really helped me a lot to prepare for this thing. My best advice for this test is to study like an animal. Treat this like it is your job and do almost nothing else with any of your free time for at least several months if you want a great score. I recognize most people won't do that, but it is the best advice I could give. I pretty much studied every free second of the day I had for the last five months. I took it yesterday and here's what I got
PAT 20 96.7%
QR 26 99.5
RC 21 82.1
Bio 26 99.8
GC 29 100
OC 28 99.1
TS 29 100
AA 26 100
Bio - Kaplan is great for this. Know the review book and look at the lessons a few times if you have online access. I took someone's advice here to read schams cover to cover the week before. I think that is a very good idea. Most of the questions are pretty easy but its good to see as much material because they will throw in a couple random questions you've never or barely seen.
GC - Easier than kaplan or topscore, math's not too bad. I have a good handle on chemistry, but I doubt many people would see a question they don't know how to answer. Do the question, step back, redo it in your head to make sure it makes sense and you are answering the questions they ask
OC- Again easier than any of the practice tests. If you do well on them you'll probably do fine on the exam.
RC - Thought it was going to be easier. Very much on the level of a kaplan RC section. Several questions each section where you had to do some interpretation or actually read the passage because the answer wasn't word for word from the test.
QR - The math required for this section is all from the early part of high school. Best thing to do is just drill so you get your mind thinking in a mathematical way. Drill so that the arithmatic is second nature. Kaplan is harder than the test.
PAT - I find this section a little silly. You should be able to do the cube counting and hole punch without getting many (or any wrong). The apertures are harder than kaplan. TFE around kaplan. Angle ranking, 8-10 will be doable - the remaining are very hard. I probably got a bunch wrong on this section. Paperfolding a little harder than kaplan. You must use DAT Acheiver for this section. I usually got 22-24 on the kaplan PAT tests and 18,18,19 on DAT acheiver practice tests. DAT acheiver is harder than the test but is necessary for practice. I also don't understand why the 96.7% is only a 20 but it whatever. The scaling is certainly different than for the other sections
So to conclude as most people have said - Your score will be higher than your kaplan and topscore scores for all sections except PAT and maybe RC. Use DAT acheiver, especially for DAT.
PAT 20 96.7%
QR 26 99.5
RC 21 82.1
Bio 26 99.8
GC 29 100
OC 28 99.1
TS 29 100
AA 26 100
Bio - Kaplan is great for this. Know the review book and look at the lessons a few times if you have online access. I took someone's advice here to read schams cover to cover the week before. I think that is a very good idea. Most of the questions are pretty easy but its good to see as much material because they will throw in a couple random questions you've never or barely seen.
GC - Easier than kaplan or topscore, math's not too bad. I have a good handle on chemistry, but I doubt many people would see a question they don't know how to answer. Do the question, step back, redo it in your head to make sure it makes sense and you are answering the questions they ask
OC- Again easier than any of the practice tests. If you do well on them you'll probably do fine on the exam.
RC - Thought it was going to be easier. Very much on the level of a kaplan RC section. Several questions each section where you had to do some interpretation or actually read the passage because the answer wasn't word for word from the test.
QR - The math required for this section is all from the early part of high school. Best thing to do is just drill so you get your mind thinking in a mathematical way. Drill so that the arithmatic is second nature. Kaplan is harder than the test.
PAT - I find this section a little silly. You should be able to do the cube counting and hole punch without getting many (or any wrong). The apertures are harder than kaplan. TFE around kaplan. Angle ranking, 8-10 will be doable - the remaining are very hard. I probably got a bunch wrong on this section. Paperfolding a little harder than kaplan. You must use DAT Acheiver for this section. I usually got 22-24 on the kaplan PAT tests and 18,18,19 on DAT acheiver practice tests. DAT acheiver is harder than the test but is necessary for practice. I also don't understand why the 96.7% is only a 20 but it whatever. The scaling is certainly different than for the other sections
So to conclude as most people have said - Your score will be higher than your kaplan and topscore scores for all sections except PAT and maybe RC. Use DAT acheiver, especially for DAT.
