RC qvault?

[hasanein4u]

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Hey guys,
What do you think about Qvault RC? My test is in less than 3 weeks and I have never scored higher than 18 with Kaplan and going to take topscore this weekend
So do you think practicing Qvault RC would help? is it close to the real thing?

 

[duke2121]

The passages are longer on qvault than the real DAT. I think qVault is like 17-20, whereas real DAT is more 12-15. I thought qVault was representative of the actual RC. except real DAT had maybe 2-3 more tone questions. I think if you average 20+ on qvault, you should pull off a 20+ on the real deal.

 

[hasanein4u]

The passages are longer on qvault than the real DAT. I think qVault is like 17-20, whereas real DAT is more 12-15. I thought qVault was representative of the actual RC. except real DAT had maybe 2-3 more tone questions. I think if you average 20+ on qvault, you should pull off a 20+ on the real deal.

you say it is way longer... how come you can score better in it?

 

[Swoops]

Took my test today.. It think qvault prepares you fairly well, however I will say that accounting for bad luck on tests (piano/physics passage) you may want to mess around with methods other than search and destroy. I was averaging a 23 on the first 4 datqvault RC's with search and destroy and unfortunately had a really tough passage that search and destroy didn't really work for which I think is why I got a 20. Also, I know that the passages are extremely long on datqvault but the real DAT was much shorter 8-13ish paragraphs--HOWEVER, they are longer paragraphs and they are much more dense and complicated. I thought mine was a little bit harder than topscore RC--dat qvault was much easier as far as questions go, although i struggled with time on those. Hope that helps, I really suggest doing the 3 topscore RC's as they were more representative of my dat. Averaged 21 on them

 

[hasanein4u]

Took my test today.. It think qvault prepares you fairly well, however I will say that accounting for bad luck on tests (piano/physics passage) you may want to mess around with methods other than search and destroy. I was averaging a 23 on the first 4 datqvault RC's with search and destroy and unfortunately had a really tough passage that search and destroy didn't really work for which I think is why I got a 20. Also, I know that the passages are extremely long on datqvault but the real DAT was much shorter 8-13ish paragraphs--HOWEVER, they are longer paragraphs and they are much more dense and complicated. I thought mine was a little bit harder than topscore RC--dat qvault was much easier as far as questions go, although i struggled with time on those. Hope that helps, I really suggest doing the 3 topscore RC's as they were more representative of my dat. Averaged 21 on them

Piano! You mean you may get non=science passage?
What do you think about Kaplan method?

 

[joeeeey3]

Piano! You mean you may get non=science passage?
What do you think about Kaplan method?

piano and physics passages are the "legendary" ones that screwed up a lot of ppl.
However, it is normal to get a passage that is non-science

 

[Swoops]

Yeah I don't just mean piano/physics but there are just certain passages that are extremely difficult to use for search and destroy. I had a passage yesterday that it was impossible to use and I struggled because I was only prepared for s and d type questions. 7 questions in a row gave you two statements and the options were like statement is correct reason is not and every other spin on that type of answer. It was like this on 2/3 passages and it hurt my score. Still got a 20 which I'm happy with, but I was averaging 23 ish on qv and 22 on topscore

Depending on how much time you have, maybe try vicvipers method and if that works I think it could be a great method for any passage you get. Just search for it. Find the best method for you and stick with it. I hated kaplans method.

 

[deeentist79]

RC qvault is somewhat similar, prepares you well. But when i took my DAT last year, i had up till 17 and 18 passages in the section. That totally screwed up my time. So be prepared for any curve balls.

 

[hasanein4u]

I was getting 18 in Kaplan RC in all my practice tests by using their method... the only time I used search and destroy I got 17
My english is a second language so by Kaplan's method I do only two passages and the last one is guessing or a little bit of search and destroy because 5 mins only left

Today I got my Qvault and I have just done the first exam and did the first passage by Kaplan's method which took me 23 minutes and the last two passages by search and destroy.. the time was enough and I got 20! what do you guys think? is it a good sign or not?
Only one of the passages was science... the other two were (literature?) and rainfall collection (which I do not know what division it is) 😀

 

[dent4]

this was the one section I was most worried about going into the DAT since I showed no results on improvement. I took my DAT today and got a 20RC and thankfully it was my easiest section. I would say based on the difficulty level qvault was the best representation. I averaged around a 17-18 on qvault RC, 15-16 on achiever RC and 16 on CDR. The passages were all very easy to map out so I started out reading the passages, but once I was done with my first passage I only had 36 mins left. I highly recommend S/D, which worked very well. I wish i would've practiced more on S/D than actually reading the passages. Saves you a lot of time. I only had 1 tone question out of 50.

 

[hasanein4u]

this was the one section I was most worried about going into the DAT since I showed no results on improvement. I took my DAT today and got a 20RC and thankfully it was my easiest section. I would say based on the difficulty level qvault was the best representation. I averaged around a 17-18 on qvault RC, 15-16 on achiever RC and 16 on CDR. The passages were all very easy to map out so I started out reading the passages, but once I was done with my first passage I only had 36 mins left. I highly recommend S/D, which worked very well. I wish i would've practiced more on S/D than actually reading the passages. Saves you a lot of time. I only had 1 tone question out of 50.

congratulations! by the way you are lucky to get 1 tone question only
I had like 8 tone questions in my qvault today! still have 6 practice left

Did you get them all science passages?

 

[dent4]

my passages were about fungal infections, ethics, and epithelial/mesenchymal tissue. I started off reading the passage for fungal infections and realized nothing was sticking and went strait to S/D, which I can honestly say I practiced once or twice. I got lucky the passages were mapped out very easily with the infections italicized making it even easier to find. I really lucked out to say the least, but in my mind I think qvault was the best representation. ****, I highly recommend qvault for all sections

 

[NDPitch]

I took the DAT today. qVault did not prepare me. I was getting all 20-22 on qVault which made me feel good. Instead I got 3 terrible passages that were littered with tone and meaning questions and ended up with a 17. Now I don't know if I'm totally up the creek. I'd say stay away from qVault. It's too easy. 🙁