TopScore RC score relevance

[Innulja]

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Hi guys! I am really paranoid about the RC section on the DAT. Unlike any other section you can't really prepare for this one. I am getting 20 on the Top Score RC's. Could anyone of you who was in the same boat and has already taken the real thing advise on what I should actually expect as far as grading goes.
I would be really thankful.
I know that the TopS is easier, and that only makes it worse, so please comment.
My DAT date is July 19th.

P.S. I apologize if this question was already asked, if you have the link just post it and I'll refer to it. Thanks.

 

[UCfan]

Hi guys! I am really paranoid about the RC section on the DAT. Unlike any other section you can't really prepare for this one. I am getting 20 on the Top Score RC's. Could anyone of you who was in the same boat and has already taken the real thing advise on what I should actually expect as far as grading goes.
I would be really thankful.
I know that the TopS is easier, and that only makes it worse, so please comment.
My DAT date is July 19th.

P.S. I apologize if this question was already asked, if you have the link just post it and I'll refer to it. Thanks.

It totally depends on the version you get. Some SDNers said that they had difficult times with ethics and piano passages. I had one easy, one medium and one slightly hard level (I think it is about crocodiles- I did not like that one) passages. I was scoring 20 in top score. In real DAT I ended up with 21. If you are lucky, you may do very well. Good luck!

 

[Jongho Yoon]

I was scoring 21-22 on top score. In the real DAT, I ended up with 17. I got hard passage on first, and I could only do about 5 questions out of like 17 in 20 minutes. Watch out for a new RC question format. I remember reading about the new question format vicviper described before I took the test, and I ended up having like 10 questions with the type he described. I have never seen this format until I took the real DAT.

 

[burnzee06]

I scored a 20 and a 22 on topscore and got a 26 on the real thing. I had 18 minutes left after I finished the 3rd passage and was able to review all of my answers (changed a few, too). I thought the real RC was different from topscore... not easier/harder, just different.

 

[pbure9]

I was scoring 21-22 on top score. In the real DAT, I ended up with 17. I got hard passage on first, and I could only do about 5 questions out of like 17 in 20 minutes. Watch out for a new RC question format. I remember reading about the new question format vicviper described before I took the test, and I ended up having like 10 questions with the type he described. I have never seen this format until I took the real DAT.

What do you mean by this new format? And how did acheiver RC comparing. Just wondering. Thanks

 

[Jongho Yoon]

Originally Posted by Vicviper
On my second passage I had this type of question I'd never seen before on ANY of my practice tests, and it really tripped me up time wise. It was like, "Fact Fact Fact Fact, reason reason reason reason" and the choices were like, the fact is true and the reason is true, the fact is wrong but the reason is true, the fact is true but the reason is wrong - just a TOTALLY weird question and I had like two of those.

This is what I read.