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[firstcitizen]

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Did you guys comment on areas that can be improved at the end of the exam in the short survey or did you just run out and scream insanity?

I had problems with the fat markers like everyone else since I had trouble discerning my handwriting or I was wasting more time writing legibly in size 24 font.

The numbers in the math section were blurry. They looked like they were scanned from a pretty crappy scanner and the numbers were tiny for the trig questions. I had a problem where I was given two angles and had to solve for x and it was a really easy problem, but I couldn't determine whether there was a negative in front of the four or not. Suffice to say, I wasted my time to solve for both cases (+4,-4), and both answers were present in the answer choices. Some of the numbers seriously look like specks on the screen. Hopefully, some changes will be made for this section when I take it again next year or else I'm bringing a magnifying glass with me.

Other than that, every other section was fine.😀

 

[dmd20000]

did you encounter weird bio questions?

 

[firstcitizen]

No, every question was fair game. A few members posted that they had several lab technique questions(photobleaching, etc), but I didn't have a single lab technique question.

 

[dmd20000]

No, every question was fair game. A few members posted that they had several lab technique questions(photobleaching, etc), but I didn't have a single lab technique question.

nice!

how much did the destroyer help?

 

[firstcitizen]

Actually, I would have preferred a few questions on lab techniques. 😀

I didn't use Destroyer although I wish I did. I only had two weeks to study and it wouldn't have been enough time to have it delivered and study it from front to back. I'm going to get Destroyer soon and use it to study for next year.

 

[Montserrat]

I took my DAT with some of the loudest folks out there. Seemed like one poor fellow had a full blown flu, and the another decided that typing wasn't enough, but punching through his keyboard forcefully was. Some better headphones would have been appreciated.

Well.. .that and don't slice mangos the night before your exam. My finger was bleeding all over the pink scratch paper 😡

 

[TheWiredNerv]

Yea, make it an essay test...

Sorry, I do better on essay tests than MC tests ;p.