Please rank the top 3 supplemental courses most helpful in preparing for the DAT

[plaz]

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The following courses were excluded as they were considered asbolutely essential rather than supplementary:

• General Biology
• General Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry

Please respond to this poll only if you have already taken the DAT.

Also, please exercise self-control--top 3 only!

If there is a "top 3" course you feel I am missing, please select other and post it below.

Thanks! 🙂

 

[Vicviper]

I put Human Physio, Genetics, and Molecular Bio, but the thing is that the Bio on the DAT really isn't as in depth as you will learn in say a Microbiology class. An anatomy class would provide you with overkill information for the DAT anatomy questions. The only thing that isn't really covered well in a good year long general biology that the DAT does like to test for in depth is Human Physio, especially endocrinology. Ironically, I took the DAT before I took Physio, and my studying for the DAT let me ace that class because I already really knew most everything, hehe.

But other than Physio, there's really no huge need to take any other upper division bio classes before you take the DAT. The depth of Biochem, Genetics, Molecular Bio, Microbio, basic anatomy, etc, that the DAT wants should all be covered in a good year long general bio class, and then any prep or studying you do will fill in holes. Not to say that TAKING any of those classes would hurt your chances or understanding.

Hope that helps!

 

[plaz]

My school strongly recommends Animal Physiology & Plant Physiology--a total of 8.0 credit hours. Does that sound right....?

 

[Vicviper]

For the DAT? PLANT PHYSIO? Ugh... I hate botany enough as it is, haha. Well, the only questions I can remember from my DAT was something simple about Xylem or something like that. From my Kaplan class we went into a bit about plant growth factors, but that was about it. You covered plant life cycles in your general biology class right? I think there was one question about that which I had.

As far as Animal Physio goes, sure, that might be somewhat helpful if you can relate it to humans, but from what I remember, all of the Physio questions on the test were Human Physiology. Can you just take Human Physio? I think that would be much more useful, especially if you're going dent.

 

[DrReo]

I took only one of those class mentioned before taking the DAT. You will only have material presented from freshman biology I and II.

 

[Vicviper]

I took only one of those class mentioned before taking the DAT. You will only have material presented from freshman biology I and II.

Exactly, and maybe you'll just need some prep material to brush up on the info you've already learned.

 

[lazybummy]

From what i've seen.. people who have taken MORE higher level bio electives.. ended up scoring lower on the bio section. More =/= higher score! Focus on the basic!