Topscore Difficulty vs DAT

[TheGreenWave]

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Ok I know this comes up a lot, but I really need to know which sections of Topscore are comparable to DAT and which ones are too hard (if any) / too easy. Its a month before my DAT and I just took the Test 3 of topscore:

AA: 20
PA: 19
TS: 16
BIO: 16
GC: 16
OC: 16
QR: 25
RC: 25

Here are my thoughts and what I believe I understand about the difficulty.
Bio: comparable
GC: slightly harder than real DAT
OC: comparable
QR: more word problems on real DAT (seemed WAY too easy)
RC: more tone questions on real DAT (seemed short / WAY too easy)
PAT: TFE (too easy), angles (too easy)

I would love ANY feedback about the sections; especially from people that used Topscore and have taken the real deal...


PS dont laugh I havent started reviewing orgo or gen chem too much 😳.

 

[sivavajc]

I just took DAT last week. This is what I found:
Topscore:
Bio: comparable
OC: comparable
GC: I felt like calculations were really stressed. My DAT, I was really suprised that there were very few calculations, many concept based questions.
Reading: topscore questions were very straight forward all were science oriented. DAT: reading questions were more like those you might see on GRE. i.e. if you could pick a title for this article what should it be named, what type of voice were the authors using
PAT: topscore easy compared to DAT. Especially the top view side view. Get some extra practice.
Quant: reasonably comparable. DAT: yes more word problems. I found the math review for GRE (princeton review) was helpful. Also Orgo man gave some very helpful solutions.

 

[TheGreenWave]

I just took DAT last week. This is what I found:
Topscore:
Bio: comparable
OC: comparable
GC: I felt like calculations were really stressed. My DAT, I was really suprised that there were very few calculations, many concept based questions.
Reading: topscore questions were very straight forward all were science oriented. DAT: reading questions were more like those you might see on GRE. i.e. if you could pick a title for this article what should it be named, what type of voice were the authors using
PAT: topscore easy compared to DAT. Especially the top view side view. Get some extra practice.
Quant: reasonably comparable. DAT: yes more word problems. I found the math review for GRE (princeton review) was helpful. Also Orgo man gave some very helpful solutions.

Thanks a lot man! great feedback! anyone else wanna chime in??

 

[rcwha]

Yeah def., Great post! Anybody have comparisons to Dat Ach.? Especially for the pat, rc, and qr....