study time

[elz787]

I know each person is different and studies differently, but on average, do you think 1.5-2 months of JUST studying (a little bit of shadowing) is enough to be prepared for the DAT?also this is during kaplan classroom classes.

 

[JavadiCavity]

I studied for the DAT for 8 weeks while attending summer school.To get ready for the DAT, I studied 2 to 4 hours a day--and I took Kaplan's course. For what it's worth, I ended up scoring a 23 AA and a 21 PAT. If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[mvs04]

it depends on who you are. If you do well without studying, you don't have to. If you need to study, then you need to. By this point you should know what kind of test-taker you are.

i've known people who studied mightly for those 17s... and there are people on the other side of the spectrum... (one girl at one interview with me didn't study, got 26s across the board)

 

[DDS2BE]

I studied for 3 months 4 hours a day during weekdays and about 7-8 on weekends while going to my Kaplan class. I was also out of college for almost one year before I started studying for DAT. So it took me some time to get back on track.

I think no matter how much time you put it, you will always have this feeling of not being prepared well enough until you actually take and rock that DAT! 🙂

 

[ISU_Steve]

Personally, I'm not going to wait until a couple of months before the test to take it. I'm not taking the DAT until January 2007 (I won't be done with biochemistry until December 2006), but I will probably start studying around March of 2006. I'm planning on taking the Kaplan book with me when my fiancee (she'll be my wife as of 14 January 2006) and I go to Germany on our honeymoon in May 2006. It'll provide something to do on those long flights there and back, not to mention on the train rides between cities.

 

[IcemanDDS]

Personally, I'm not going to wait until a couple of months before the test to take it. I'm not taking the DAT until January 2007 (I won't be done with biochemistry until December 2006), but I will probably start studying around March of 2006. I'm planning on taking the Kaplan book with me when my fiancee (she'll be my wife as of 14 January 2006) and I go to Germany on our honeymoon in May 2006. It'll provide something to do on those long flights there and back, not to mention on the train rides between cities.

Sounds good, but you better find some time to talk to your new wife on those plane and train rides... 😛

 

[ISU_Steve]

She will probably have something to read too. We talk all the time to one another, and I don't think I could study for the DAT for 8 hrs straight on a flight from Chicago to Munich anyhow.

 

[IcemanDDS]

This semester ends on May 3 for me. Summer semester starts June 1. Studying for DAT 6-8 hrs per day almost everyday the entire month of May.... and lay by the bay or maybe play in the hay. Planning to take DAT in June, hope its not too soon. Hopefully that's enough time to study or my score will be ugly. Am I rhyming? Must be finals soon...

 

[reLAXgirl]

Sad...you don't want to study on your honeymoon. Get the test and the studying out of the way or even just take a break from the studying. That can be good for you. You'll enjoy it so much more if it is out of the way.

 

[ISU_Steve]

I would get it "out of the way" if I had already completed biochem by the time our honeymoon rolls around. But I won't and the reason we're going when we are is because it's the only 2 week stretch I don't have school that doesn't also coincide with either bad weather or peak travel prices. It's not like I plan on studying the entire time, actually far from it, I'm just planning on doing it during those long trips- trust me an 8+ hr plane ride or a long layover sucks. You could be with the most interesting conversationalist in the world and you'd be begging for something to do by hour 6 or so.