Too Early to Study?

[Strag]

---

Members do not see this ad.

I'm a sophomore and I basically broke down my study sessions for '09 Christmas, '10 Summer, '10 Christmas and '10 Summer with maybe some study during the school year (I doubt that will happen though with my school schedule)...

I'm looking to study over the break right now for maybe 2-3 hours a day for 4-5 days a week, but I'm not sure if I'll retain the material after a semester's worth...is there any method that will help me learn and retain the material?

The only DAT study material I have is the Kaplan BB.

Any suggestions are welcome 🙂!

 

[Strag]

Whoops I meant '11 Summer

 

[TexasOMFS]

Personally I think it's a great idea. You may not recall every exact thing but when you begin reviewing again closer to your test date the material will at least look familiar and you WILL remember some things. There's no such thing as beginning to study too early in my opinion. I should've done this but I was lazy 😛

 

[Strag]

Thanks for the advice...Right now I'm looking over Ochem in Kaplan BB since I'm taking Ochem 2 next semester.

 

[OU11BB]

and you will know what to pay full attention to in class. this would be extremely beneficial.

 

[Avery07]

I think it would be beneficial if you have the time to do this however-- it is likely you will forget a great deal of what you learn during the semester. I would maybe shorten it down to a winter break and then a summer break. Maybe concentrate on QR, PA, and chem or bio during winter break and then in the summer hit the other 2 sciences hard.

To each his own though. Good luck!

 

[phebz1125]

just study all at once
I planned to study over the school year but I couldn't do it b/c of other classes.
Just study hard in one summer and have it done.

 

[UCSD6]

Hi, just wanted to chime in. It's great that you have all this time, as most of us dont. If I were you I would make awesome notes right now. I made notes of ochem and G chem the summer prior of the test and saved them. If anything make notes for Bio. The best method is to get campbells bio since they use this and type up notes. Type up notes on chapters that your weak on. You can condense that huge book, into a small notebook of notes. Just type up the info on diagrams/pictures and the bold words(definitions) and you'll be set for the bio section. Then if you have all of these notes done, just 2-3 months before the test get started on reading and them over and over and over and do question. You'll be money then. Also purchase Crack Dat PAT and work on techniques to increase speed over this large time span you have. You can get really really fast and good at it.

 

[Kneecoal]

waste of time

 

[Extirpator]

waste of time

I'll second that.

 

[CanadianDental]

Are you writting the American DAT or Canadian? Because if it's the American DAT, I would just study 1.5-2 months during the summer or something like 4-6 hours per day and then schedule and take it. If it's cDAT then it is different because you don't have the luxury of taking it when you want. In the latter case, I would study the summer prior to the fall (cDAT is given during the fall or spring) in order to consolidate all that info in your long-term memory, and then 2 weeks before the test I would give schoolwork a backseat (hopefully you won't have any exams) and study intensily in order to quickly remap those neural pathways you created during the summer. I wrote the cDAT this past november, used the latter technique, and worked great for me (See my scores below).