Preparing in short time...HELP

[FLGirl22]

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I have been so busy this semester with my classes that I did not have very much time to prepare for the DAT, which I am taking in two weeks. Does anyone have good advice on how to prepare in short time? Also...

1. Do you think that the ACS Study Guides for General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry are helpful for the DAT (or are they too basic or have more detail than needed)? I have them from previous semesters and began working through them.

2. I have the online Kaplan course and have been roughly working through it, I know people have mixed feelings, are the practice tests and workshops that comparable to the DAT for those who have used it?

 

[Jongho Yoon]

Why don't you delay the test? I don't think it will cost you anything. There is no point of taking it, if you are not prepared enough, I think, because you have to retake it anyway.

I heared that Kaplan online PAT is easier and that their exams give similar or slightly lower score of the real DAT

If I have two weeks only to study, then I would study Kaplan Blue Book for a week really seriously (reading it about 3-5 times in a week), then try to do as many practice questions on the kaplan online and reviewing those questions after solving them. I would do couple of the whole practice exams on kaplan online or of topscore before about three days of the exam.

 

[purplepanda]

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[potbelly]

ACS is good materials and mostly questions based...However, some questions are alot harder than Kaplan BB. Since there are no solutions for ACS, it takes time to find all solutions from other materials...(such as textbooks...) If you understand all questions, I think it will definitely help you!

 

[FLGirl22]

I have a 3.6 and I am currently finishing Organic II and retaking Chemistry II because of a bad grade...my problem is the Biology section because I haven't taken it in a year and I am taking anatomy and microbiology next over the summer.

Thanks for the advice! Do you think Kaplan covers most of the biology well enough?

 

[purplepanda]

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