Taking my dat in 3 days!!! Terrified!

[PreDentalGirl1]

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So....I'm taking the DAT on Monday and I'm really scared that I'm going to get a really hard test or something and all of my studying will be wasted. I've been studying for a long time and have not left my house in about 5 weeks...literally. I'm going to give a list of the things I have studied and some of the scores on practice tests that I have gotten. I need to know if you guys think I'll be okay or not because I'm legit freaking out!

DAT Destroyer: four times through, made study guides and memorized pretty much ever question

Khan Acadamy: watched many videos to clear up any misunderstandings

DAT BootCamp: Did all of the 5 tests for each of the sections twice except for quantitative reasoning, I only did that once
Bio: 24
Organic: about a 23
Gen Chem: 25

Crack the DAT: I did all of the reading comprehension here, all PAT tests twice through and some math
Reading: about a 21
PAT: 24

Achiever: I did this for some of the sciences but found it a waste of my time because it was too difficult. I still scored about 17's for each science section though

TOPSCORE: I did the first exam last night full through except for the math part because I'm still working on my math skills using DAT BOOTCAMP but I hopefully will be ready for that section by Monday.
BIO: 19
Organic: 17
Gen Chem: 17
Reading: 18
PAT: 19

I also read Organic Chemistry as a 2nd language book 1 and 2, MCAT general chemistry review and AP biology review

Honestly, I havn't been focusing too much time on the quantitative section, but the next few days I will have completed all of the questions on DAT bootcamp and memorized the answers so hopefully I won't have an issue with that.

Please let me know what you think my scores on the real thing will be and what to expect because I'm extremely nervous.

 

[gn4]

seems like you are set and ready to go as long as you understand how to work the questions and not just memorize the answers like in Destroyer.

 

[andrewhntran]

I know exactly how you feel. Don't worry, based on your practice scores, you are gonna do amazing. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Illfavor]

You'll be fine! Be sure to breakdown that 25AA for us!

 

[PreDentalGirl1]

I really hope so, I definitely understand what's going on and for every question I get wrong in the practice tests, I add it to my study guide and rememorize everything. It's been a really stressful process....but I'm hoping that I'm ready. I did take another top score test for the sciences and thought it was really easy. I got about 6 questions wrong per section but I went back and had made really stupid mistakes! lol so now I know what to look out for atleast. I'll definitely post a breakdown of the sections and how my experience went! I'm definitely going to be freaking out the night before! lol I ready somewhere that if you're scoring atleast 19 on the Topscore that you're ready to take the real thing. The only section I'm really worried about is the quantitative reasoning, but I hope that doing the bootcamp questions and memorizing all of the formulas will help me to ATLEAST pull an 18 in that section

 

[Illfavor]

The only section I'm really worried about is the quantitative reasoning, but I hope that doing the bootcamp questions and memorizing all of the formulas will help me to ATLEAST pull an 18 in that section

If you haven't looked at p-tests, I would at least glance over it. It's something that can be learned in 30 mins IMO (can't remember if it's covered in bootcamp).

 

[jmh018]

If you don't get a 26+ minimum, don't bother with a break down on SDN. Just kidding. You are going to be fine. You should much more prepared that I was. Remember, most people don't feel ready going into the test. Being a little nervous is a good thing.

 

[PreDentalGirl1]

Thank you! I just went on youtube and this guy had an awesome explanation for the p value test and I legit learned it in 8 minutes! So hopefully if I get a question like that thrown at me, I can do it!

 

[PreDentalGirl1]

If you don't get a 26+ minimum, don't bother with a break down on SDN. Just kidding. You are going to be fine. You should much more prepared that I was. Remember, most people don't feel ready going into the test. Being a little nervous is a good thing.

I'm definitely nervous but for some reason I feel like I'm actually ready to take it now. Last night, things just sort of clicked for me when I was doing the Topscore tests and I knew how to do pretty much every question. I'm just hoping that the real thing is about the same difficult as Topscore because I found those tests relatively easy compared to DAT destroyer.

 

[Postgrad]

How did your scores turn out?