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Im sorry to hear you both didn't do as well as you thought!?!?
You can always retake it.
If you don't mind me asking what did you both use to study? I ask because I'm using Kaplan's prep course. Need I worry or study using other resources?
You can always retake it.
If you don't mind me asking what did you both use to study? I ask because I'm using Kaplan's prep course. Need I worry or study using other resources?
Lucky feet. I'm retaking also, actually Orgo was my best. My advice for Orgo is do the road maps from destroyer. Get a white board, and keep going over and over them! I rocked that section bc of those. The bio and physics were my weakest scores.. Didn't understand why?! Wtf?! Anyway I'm retaking.. If you live in jersey i say let's study together! Be good motivators for one another..
You guys are freaking me out! I have my test in less than 2 weeks and my Kaplan practice
Scores have been around 320-350. Need I worry?? I have the oat destroyer for ochem and those road maps look over the top hard. I feel like if you have those down you could get a easy 350+ on ochem.
What did you guys use to study!?! I have some time to change the way/ what I'm studying. Any advice would be greatly apreciated!
Thanks and hope you both kill it your second time aroud
Do not freak out! Stay calm and keep doing practice problems. I used cliff's and Barron's for bio. I watched all of chad's videos.. I did the destroyer book, and DATqvault for QR practice. You will be fine! Just focus. Your scores are good from Kaplan, I used some of kaplan's materials but not enough to rate them, just as practice as I went along. I studied for 60 days straight between 8 to 12 hours a day. I also used topscore, it was okay but I'm going to use achiever now to retake bc topscore didn't show me solutions. Also if you take a closer look at the road maps they really aren't as hard as you think. They actually help in more ways then one, playing with reagents and products. After I Did those, I could solve any problem with ease. I practiced all 6 large and the baby road maps too. I did it until I could create the whole map without looking. Also for gen Chem the destroyer helped Soo much! I did about 200 of the questions and I'm finishing them now and doing them over. The bio was tricky, but what I'm doing is just sharpening my skill. Physics I used the destroyer, those problems have so many things going on at once.. So with time, I couldn't use the destroyer but it definitely helped with equations.. Physics is just a more difficult subject for me. I think you should stick to what you've been doing, try the road maps and see if it helps, I know it helped me. If they confuse you, just stop and continue doing what you know best. The DAT is very much like ours except the physics thats why I practiced the math on that site. You get one free practice test, then you have to pay for it but it's useful. Anything else I can help you with let me know! Good luck and don't freak! Walk in there confident and kill it the first time you go, soon enough we may just be colleagues. 🙂
I say that bc my best friend took the DAT the same day I took the OAT and we used practically the same material. She had the PAT section and I had physics but the destroyer was exactly the same, they don't have an OAT product for qvault.. But it's highly recommend from students taking the DAT for the bio section and Math.
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The OAT destroyer is really the only thing I used to prepare, as in it's the only thing I did questions from.
Had I looked at those road maps I would have done better. But no amount of preparing would have fully helped me save retaking the OChem classes. Some of the things the OAT asked about I could very vividly remember having learned in class since they were just weird, but I didn't cover them in my preparations so I missed 'em.
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Hey everyone! I'm taking my OAT at the end of the month. I'm pretty worried about it since I only graduated with a 3.2 GPA. I know I need to do well.To the people that have taken it, are there any topics you would suggest studying that seemed to appear over and over?