Should I retake the DAT?

[Kend]

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Hi all!
I really need some advices!!!! Please!!! So i took the DAT sometime around December last year (2013) and here is my stat:
Cumulative GPA: 3.59
Science GPA: ~3.5
O Chem: 22
G Chem: 21
Biology:22
RC: 16
QR: 14
AA/TS/PAT: 19/20/19

I was so sad when I saw the score, I thought i would get at least 20 or better ! 🙁
I was stressed out for this test which made me so nervous that i couldnt sleep at night (only 3 hrs/day) for a whole week, and by the time i took the test, i was so sleepy and my head hurt so bad at the last two section of the DAT (RC and QR)
I'm affair of taking it again, I'm affair that i will get a lower score.....
THank you!!

 

[YYC]

I would retake it for the sake of RC and QR. Try to bring those 2 sections above 19.

 

[hitmans45]

Yeah I'd say retake as well. Got to raise that RC and QR. A lot of schools have minimum scores and that 14 is going to close a lot of doors.

 

[Impulse155]

I think you don't have a choice. The 16 RC likely will filter you out. The 14 QRT will definitely filter you out.
It's a shame. Those science scores are solid! How did you manage to bomb them so badly? Is english your second language?
Luckily those are the easiest to improve (at least in my opinion). So bring those up to 18's at least and try and stay the same on the sciences. Even PAT, you didn't do AMAZING on it, but you didn't do poorly. So that score should be fairly easy to obtain again.

 

[sjv]

Agreed with above, I'd retake to definitely improve the RC/QR.

 

[Dentalguy8621]

Hi all!
I really need some advices!!!! Please!!! So i took the DAT sometime around December last year (2013) and here is my stat:
Cumulative GPA: 3.59
Science GPA: ~3.5
O Chem: 22
G Chem: 21
Biology:22
RC: 16
QR: 14
AA/TS/PAT: 19/20/19

I was so sad when I saw the score, I thought i would get at least 20 or better ! 🙁
I was stressed out for this test which made me so nervous that i couldnt sleep at night (only 3 hrs/day) for a whole week, and by the time i took the test, i was so sleepy and my head hurt so bad at the last two section of the DAT (RC and QR)
I'm affair of taking it again, I'm affair that i will get a lower score.....
THank you!!

Just gotta raise the QR and RQ. Study and just do it. You're great in the sciences. You know where your focus should be.

 

[Kend]

Thanks everyone!
and yes, English is my 2nd language so its hard for me to do well on that section...but i will try my best to get it higher. Sigh, this prob the toughest barrier that i have to overcome :/ tbh idk how to get it better, make me feel so depress.
For QR, I just need more practice cause i didn't spend much time on it.