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I took my DAT in September and got a 17AA. I studied 3.5 months for my DAT. I took the KAPLAN course to get my foot wet. It sucked lol but anyways, after that I started studying 10-12 hours a day. Then I moved to chad's and did gen chem and orgo with him. I read feralis inside out and I did like 60% of Anki flashcards. Once, I learned the content, I moved to destroyer to learn it in every possible way. I did destroyer 3 times and orgs destroyer 4 times. Then I went to bootcamp to test my knowledge and I was scoring all above 20. My bootcamp average of all score was, Bio: 25/Gen Chem: 23/Orgo: 21/QR; I don't remember my average cause I took all 10 and it varied/PAT 17. I did genius as well and I was scoring well in genius as well. I took all 10 qvault bio tests and I was scoring fairly well. I took 09 dat and got 23 bio, 21 gen chem and 19 orgo. I did math destroyer test 1-7 3 times and bootcamp test 1-10 twice. I thought I had a good understanding by the end. I ended my studying by going through all the flashcards I made from bootcamp because I learned through the solutions and I used that as a tool to identify my strong and weak areas. I had above 500 flashcards by the end and I had them all memorized. everyone told me I was prepared. My biggest mistake was, I studied until the very last minute. I was reviewing stuff even when I walked through the doors of the that center. During the exam, I was so burnt out, my test anxieties took over and I LOST MY CALM. like after bio, I knew I screwed up big time. I just couldn't physically do it at all. like while taking that test, I was so sleepy and tired that I was thinking if I died here at this table right now, at least I'll be sleeping for rest of my life. so yeah, I was really devastated cause you know thats all my handwork that went to waste. However, I am planning on retaking my DAT soon because I can't spend another summer on this. I am only planning on investing 6 weeks this time though because I am planning on studying winter break and then first couple weeks of spring semester. What should I do different this time? interns of material and content and just like overall structuring my DAT journey.
I took my DAT in September and got a 17AA. I studied 3.5 months for my DAT. I took the KAPLAN course to get my foot wet. It sucked lol but anyways, after that I started studying 10-12 hours a day. Then I moved to chad's and did gen chem and orgo with him. I read feralis inside out and I did like 60% of Anki flashcards. Once, I learned the content, I moved to destroyer to learn it in every possible way. I did destroyer 3 times and orgs destroyer 4 times. Then I went to bootcamp to test my knowledge and I was scoring all above 20. My bootcamp average of all score was, Bio: 25/Gen Chem: 23/Orgo: 21/QR; I don't remember my average cause I took all 10 and it varied/PAT 17. I did genius as well and I was scoring well in genius as well. I took all 10 qvault bio tests and I was scoring fairly well. I took 09 dat and got 23 bio, 21 gen chem and 19 orgo. I did math destroyer test 1-7 3 times and bootcamp test 1-10 twice. I thought I had a good understanding by the end. I ended my studying by going through all the flashcards I made from bootcamp because I learned through the solutions and I used that as a tool to identify my strong and weak areas. I had above 500 flashcards by the end and I had them all memorized. everyone told me I was prepared. My biggest mistake was, I studied until the very last minute. I was reviewing stuff even when I walked through the doors of the that center. During the exam, I was so burnt out, my test anxieties took over and I LOST MY CALM. like after bio, I knew I screwed up big time. I just couldn't physically do it at all. like while taking that test, I was so sleepy and tired that I was thinking if I died here at this table right now, at least I'll be sleeping for rest of my life. so yeah, I was really devastated cause you know thats all my handwork that went to waste. However, I am planning on retaking my DAT soon because I can't spend another summer on this. I am only planning on investing 6 weeks this time though because I am planning on studying winter break and then first couple weeks of spring semester. What should I do different this time? interns of material and content and just like overall structuring my DAT journey.
