Recent test takes: Is Geometry and Trig still on the test?

[flossit]

Can anyone shed light if those two are still being tested directly?

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[pookatooth]

yep

 

[htorres89]

I know 2 friends who have just taken the DAT this past month and they both said they didn't have 1 question on trig or geometry


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[dentisthopeful123!]

it is

 

[LogicGS]

I took yesterday, but trig didn't show up.

 

[Bingwen]

They are phasing trig out but I don't think it was supposed to be gone until the 3 quarter (i.e. after June). That is what I heard, but that is not necessarily true.

 

[DAT Destroyer]

Can anyone shed light if those two are still being tested directly?

As of June 6, yes.

 

[FoulSmellingFuso]

Definitely got geometry questions with 30-60-90 triangles, isosceles triangles and such. Don't remember any outstanding trig questions, maybe 1, at most 2. I was expecting some hard trig questions from doing BC and glancing through destroyer 2015 ed. but trig didn't show up as a problem at all. Got these interpret graph questions that showed up in BC math, at least 4 or 5. I'd say do the BC math until scoring 21s couple times then you're golden. I took mine 5-24-17.

 

[dentalstar100]

Definitely got geometry questions with 30-60-90 triangles, isosceles triangles and such. Don't remember any outstanding trig questions, maybe 1, at most 2. I was expecting some hard trig questions from doing BC and glancing through destroyer 2015 ed. but trig didn't show up as a problem at all. Got these interpret graph questions that showed up in BC math, at least 4 or 5. I'd say do the BC math until scoring 21s couple times then you're golden. I took mine 5-24-17.

Are these new QC questions difficult?

 

[reveriex5]

Are these new QC questions difficult?

I think it's best to take the subject specific QC on BC. It helped me extremely because once I encountered those QC problems, I knew exactly what they were asking for and how to think it through. There were also lots of simple data interpretation questions. I had no trig, but a couple of geometry questions. And some geometry stuff were included in the actual QC problem.

 

[FoulSmellingFuso]

Are these new QC questions difficult?

No, they were pretty common sense to me, just have to be careful while rushing, if that makes sense.
I think BC quant is enough to prepare you. So much of the DAT is a time crunch, and QC is definitely an example of that. I did all of destroyer problems for fun as a break from studying for ochem and bio, then did BC tests until I could consistently score above 20 and finish on time. If you could do that like 2 or 3 times in a row on BC QC tests, I think you're more than ready for QC. I got a 24 on QC and were iffy in a few questions still studying this way.

 

[Faefly]

I think it's best to take the subject specific QC on BC. It helped me extremely because once I encountered those QC problems, I knew exactly what they were asking for and how to think it through. There were also lots of simple data interpretation questions. I had no trig, but a couple of geometry questions. And some geometry stuff were included in the actual QC problem.

I wonder these data interpretation questions, where can I find examples of them, does bootcamp have any similar questions on their tests?
Do they give you a pie chart or a table to interpret?

 

[flossit]

I wonder these data interpretation questions, where can I find examples of them, does bootcamp have any similar questions on their tests?
Do they give you a pie chart or a table to interpret?

Look here:
Orgoman (Destroyer) New type QR Problems - Free for all

 

[Faefly]

Look here:
Orgoman (Destroyer) New type QR Problems - Free for all

Thank you so much. To be honest I did download these questions but I haven't looked at them yet.

 

[DAT Destroyer]

Thank you so much. To be honest I did download these questions but I haven't looked at them yet.

Why wait to look, no time like the present? They won't bite you..

 

[reveriex5]

I wonder these data interpretation questions, where can I find examples of them, does bootcamp have any similar questions on their tests?
Do they give you a pie chart or a table to interpret?

It's like bar graphs, pie charts, ect. These are easy points! It would ask you to add up all the people and stuff.

 

[ProspectivePostPreDent]

I got a trig question (took the test last week).

 

[deleted768895]

Hi just wondering how you thought the difficult of the QC from bootcamp compared to the actualy DAT? I am finding the QC questions on bootcamp very hard even when i compare it to GRE questions

 

[Hnl7]

I felt like the DAT was a bit easier than Bootcamp due to having more of the new QR types. They felt more like a logical reasoning question rather than a math problem.

I did see trig and geometry, but I took the DAT in the first half of 2017.

 

[RockSkipper]

The trig and geo questions were intertwined with qc problems