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[babygi05]

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I am about to start studying for my DAT retake for late May. I know I have some good study guides but is there anything I else I could get. Here is the list:

Schaums BIO
Schaums G. Chem
Schaums O. Chem
Cliffs AP BIO
Barrons AP Chem
Barrons DAT test prep
Cliffs DAT test prep
Princeton Review: SAT Math study guide
Kaplan DAT study guide (from class i took last year, total rip off just get the book)
Kaplan Flash Cards
DAT Destroyer
Topscore

I know there aren't really any study guides for reading, so is this a pretty comprehensive list that I could go through in 3 months or so?

I just used Kaplan's materials last year and scored an 18/19/20

 

[sajjy]

I am about to start studying for my DAT retake for late May. I know I have some good study guides but is there anything I else I could get. Here is the list:

Schaums BIO
Schaums G. Chem
Schaums O. Chem
Cliffs AP BIO
Barrons AP Chem
Barrons DAT test prep
Cliffs DAT test prep
Princeton Review: SAT Math study guide
Kaplan DAT study guide (from class i took last year, total rip off just get the book)
Kaplan Flash Cards
DAT Destroyer
Topscore

I know there aren't really any study guides for reading, so is this a pretty comprehensive list that I could go through in 3 months or so?

I just used Kaplan's materials last year and scored an 18/19/20

What about the textbooks that you used in College? Nothing is better than your textbooks. Campbell and Reece is the best tool for Bio.

 

[Loop]

Im not really sure its about how much money you can spend. I think you already have a pretty good array of things to study. Actually sitting down for many hundreds of hours and committing these things to your long term memory will be the hard (but necessary) part. Spending more money isn't going to mitigate that to any great degree. Between what you have and your old textbooks, you have all the info you need to make an amazing score.

That said, I took one of my girlfriends mcat princeton review course books (the one you pay outrageous amounts for) and I found that to be pretty invaluable in my studying. I spent weeks with it. Took it on picnics, long walks on the beach, fancy restaurants. It was very concise yet incredibly detailed (if that makes any sense?). It was as if every sentence in there had been engineered to communicate the most amount of information in the shortest amount of space...unlike mine. Then to test your understanding of the concept they would continuously give you example problems. It cleared so many things up for me. Maybe the kaplan white book is just as good or better(Ive never seen one), but her book really blew the blue kaplan out of the water.....did I just type "blew the blue"? *shrug*
Obviously I wouldnt go out and drop the money for it, but if you have access to *free* mcat materials ....theyve got some really nice stuff too for the subject matter that overlaps.

As already mentioned, the Campbell biology text is a solid book that has all you need and more for bio. You might be different than me, but this is where most of my time went. Biology is hard to prepare for since its so vast.

 

[TheWiredNerv]

Barons is terrible. If you have Cliffs AP Bio then you don't need Schaums in my opinion.

 

[rose786]

Use Barrons for toilet paper.

 

[jigabodo]

Use Barrons for toilet paper.

Hey come on, at least read over their PAT sections before doing that!

There are some mistakes in the PAT section as well though.

 

[sajjy]

Barons is terrible. If you have Cliffs AP Bio then you don't need Schaums in my opinion.

Cliffs is a very good book but it depends...
I liked cliffs very much and did not even touch Schaums...but then i was also using Campbell and Reece.
Cliffs itself only is good if you have taken a lot of courses in Bio.

 

[TheWiredNerv]

Cliffs is a very good book but it depends...
I liked cliffs very much and did not even touch Schaums...but then i was also using Campbell and Reece.
Cliffs itself only is good if you have taken a lot of courses in Bio.

This may be true. I took many bio courses so Cliff's was more than sufficient for me. Either way, Barron's still sucks 👎