Real DAT Reading Section??

[paymaant]

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I am debating between Topscore and Crack DAT Reading. I have read that Crack has more inference/tone questions whereas topscore tends to be a little bit easier with more search and destroy.

Does the real DAT have more S&D or more tone questions?

 

[tayloreve]

I am debating between Topscore and Crack DAT Reading. I have read that Crack has more inference/tone questions whereas topscore tends to be a little bit easier with more search and destroy.

Does the real DAT have more S&D or more tone questions?

I had several tone and inference questions. Topscore was good practice but is mostly search and destroy. If I had to retake the DAT I probably would of bought CDR to practice tone questions.

 

[paymaant]

I had several tone and inference questions. Topscore was good practice but is mostly search and destroy. If I had to retake the DAT I probably would of bought CDR to practice tone questions.

Yea that's what I was thinking. CDR it is!

 

[J777]

If you can, get both. I felt that the real dat was a blend of the two programs. For CDR, question style, especially for tone/inference questions, was spot on. However, the passage content was far from representative. Many CDR passages were not based in science at all.

TS passages were very representative of my test. The search and destroy questions were also very similar, though they kinda followed the passage more so than the real DAT (I.e. the questions weren't randomly scattered and did not follow the passage chronologically as much as TS does).

If you take both of the positives from each program, you should be set to perform decently.

 

[babowc]

Honestly, I used S&D but I didn't study for RC at all. I think it is best to S&D without reading the entire passage and whatnot.
I'm ESL, albeit having immigrated 18 years ago.
I scored what I think it's average to slightly higher, 22.