Need Help for DAT

[Valcandoit]

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Hi guys, I am having a mini-breakdown lol well kind of. I am taking my DAT on july 18th and I have been studying since the beginning of June. I watched Chad's chem and orgo vids, but i feel very lost in ORGO idk y. For bio, I am up to the biological diversity chapter and I hate this material IDK y i feel like my brain wont accept any of the facts after this chapter. I have DAT destroyer and can answer a ton of bio questions. Also, I am very weak in QR. What should i do from here till July 18th? I also have DAT bootcamp. Idk why im making this thread, I just feel lost and I feel like there is not a lot of time in the day to study everything. Any advice guys?

 

[Lolo390]

Hi!

So I'm taking my DAT July 1st and I am right there with you feeling like theres so much information to retain and what not. Since I am going through it with you I may not be that much of help, but what i've been doing and it seems like its working is making a notebook for each subject and everyday when I wake up running through each notebook BRIEFLY, like just to see it and store it in my head somewhere if that makes sense. Then I work on what i'm weakest on in the mornings, afternoon I break up with some PAT, and at night I try to do bio because I feel like this information subconsciously works its way into your head while you sleep and then you wake up the next morning and you re-look at it briefly and it sticks. Idk if that makes any sense, but I feel like it helps!!

As for Orgo...MAKE NOTECARDS!!!! Every.single.reaction. What I do is right the starting materials/products on one side and reagents on the other... and quiz myself from both directions. Mike's Orgo videos REALLY helped.. take detailed notes in that notebook and reread everyday.

As for Gen Chem...redo Destroyer problems/run through bootcamp/watch videos. This is really all about recognizing the problem and just doing it.

As for QR... I have NO idea.. I am struggling so hard bc I am so bad at math I cry like everyday... but after making a notebook of just QR and reading over stuff daily I went from scoring 14s on BC to 19s... so yeah maybe its helping.

Good luck!!

 

[Valcandoit]

Hi!

So I'm taking my DAT July 1st and I am right there with you feeling like theres so much information to retain and what not. Since I am going through it with you I may not be that much of help, but what i've been doing and it seems like its working is making a notebook for each subject and everyday when I wake up running through each notebook BRIEFLY, like just to see it and store it in my head somewhere if that makes sense. Then I work on what i'm weakest on in the mornings, afternoon I break up with some PAT, and at night I try to do bio because I feel like this information subconsciously works its way into your head while you sleep and then you wake up the next morning and you re-look at it briefly and it sticks. Idk if that makes any sense, but I feel like it helps!!

As for Orgo...MAKE NOTECARDS!!!! Every.single.reaction. What I do is right the starting materials/products on one side and reagents on the other... and quiz myself from both directions. Mike's Orgo videos REALLY helped.. take detailed notes in that notebook and reread everyday.

As for Gen Chem...redo Destroyer problems/run through bootcamp/watch videos. This is really all about recognizing the problem and just doing it.

As for QR... I have NO idea.. I am struggling so hard bc I am so bad at math I cry like everyday... but after making a notebook of just QR and reading over stuff daily I went from scoring 14s on BC to 19s... so yeah maybe its helping.

Good luck!!

How are you practicing QR? like what source

 

[Lolo390]

I went through Math destroyer practice tests 1-12.. first time just doing the problems, second time redoing them and really trying to understand them, third time trying to do them as fast as possible to get used to thinking fast. Then I went through 5 QR tests on BC and my scored ranged from 14-19 every time... some tests seemed harder than others but after going through it helped realize that most mistakes you make are silly and can be fixed. Ummm besides that I haven't gone through QR section of destroyer...heard it was too easy. I have been printing out every single Quantitative comparison question i come across and have been writing out explanations and stuff to try to get my mind good at thinking about those questions. Thats really about it but i'm still really struggling

 

[Faefly]

First of all, breathe. Everything will be Ok, and you can always postpone if you feel you are not ready.
Second of all, if it makes you feel better, I started around June and I finished Gen Chem, started Orgo 3 days ago but no bio at all so far. So trust me you are in good shape so far.
Third of all, for Qr, what are you using right now? We shared useful resources for QR here.

 

[Valcandoit]

First of all, breathe. Everything will be Ok, and you can always postpone if you feel you are not ready.
Second of all, if it makes you feel better, I started around June and I finished Gen Chem, started Orgo 3 days ago but no bio at all so far. So trust me you are in good shape so far.
Third of all, for Qr, what are you using right now? We shared useful resources for QR here.

For QR, I have Math Destroyer. I watched Khan to review. However, Destroyer is making me lose a lot of confidence lol.

 

[FoulSmellingFuso]

I spent 10 weeks total on the DAT starting with spring break then into spring quarter. I started cramming real hard after my midterms, which gave me about 2.5 weeks. You can definitely get there in a month time. During Spring break I worked through all of Chad's GC and OC videos, taking notes on every word in a composition book, which I only referred back to periodically, but I think the notetaking process was v important.
Then in the 2.5 weeks I went in this order:
1. OC destroyer 1x, then understanding what I did wrong
2. GC destroyer 1x similarly.
3. Destroyer math 1x for fun/study break
4. BC QR until I felt confident/scored 20.
5. BC GC: I felt pretty confident doing the GC parts, so only did like 3 BC tests.
6. BC OC: all available problems, taking notes on why I got the wrong answer and recognizing patterns.
7. BC Bio: all available problems, reading every word on the ones I got wrong and organizing information on some printer paper that I carried around everywhere.
8. BC PAT as many problems as possible like 1 weeks before, tried my best.
Spare time throughout: printed out Chad's rxns list, put important mechanisms/info for each rxn on there, then carried it everywhere I went, reading through them constantly. As I studied Bio I carried the info I didn't know with me as well. Also did Chad's quiz questions for OC and Bio everywhere(lunch, before lecture, during bathroom, before bed, whenever I'm bored.)

 

[Valcandoit]

I spent 10 weeks total on the DAT starting with spring break then into spring quarter. I started cramming real hard after my midterms, which gave me about 2.5 weeks. You can definitely get there in a month time. During Spring break I worked through all of Chad's GC and OC videos, taking notes on every word in a composition book, which I only referred back to periodically, but I think the notetaking process was v important.
Then in the 2.5 weeks I went in this order:
1. OC destroyer 1x, then understanding what I did wrong
2. GC destroyer 1x similarly.
3. Destroyer math 1x for fun/study break
4. BC QR until I felt confident/scored 20.
5. BC GC: I felt pretty confident doing the GC parts, so only did like 3 BC tests.
6. BC OC: all available problems, taking notes on why I got the wrong answer and recognizing patterns.
7. BC Bio: all available problems, reading every word on the ones I got wrong and organizing information on some printer paper that I carried around everywhere.
8. BC PAT as many problems as possible like 1 weeks before, tried my best.
Spare time throughout: printed out Chad's rxns list, put important mechanisms/info for each rxn on there, then carried it everywhere I went, reading through them constantly. As I studied Bio I carried the info I didn't know with me as well. Also did Chad's quiz questions for OC and Bio everywhere(lunch, before lecture, during bathroom, before bed, whenever I'm bored.)

Thanks man. What i plan on doing is watching Mike's orgo vids now and rewriting everything. Also going to do the DAT destroyer problems for chem and bio then orgo after i finish the vids. I will do a math destroyer test each day and do bootcamp generators for PAT. How does this sound?

 

[FoulSmellingFuso]

Thanks man. What i plan on doing is watching Mike's orgo vids now and rewriting everything. Also going to do the DAT destroyer problems for chem and bio then orgo after i finish the vids. I will do a math destroyer test each day and do bootcamp generators for PAT. How does this sound?

Yea sounds good. Essentially use videos to learn, destroyer to build up your problem solving, then do BC to target your weaknesses then you should be set. Though you wont feel set at all, I certainly didn't. But it turned out fine