Topscore scores!! advice? :/

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So, I just took my first top score with about 2 weeks till test day and I am worried....Please any encouragement, words of advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

AA.......18
TS.......18
Bio.......19
Gchem..17
Ochem..17
PAT......20
RC.......18
QR.......17

I felt QR was really difficult :/ what do you guys think??
 
A lot, if not most people do better on the DAT than Topscore. Just don't get discouraged and keep on trucking.Wherever/whatever you got wrong, learn from it and refer to Chad's/textbooks.
 
So, I just took my first top score with about 2 weeks till test day and I am worried....Please any encouragement, words of advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

AA.......18
TS.......18
Bio.......19
Gchem..17
Ochem..17
PAT......20
RC.......18
QR.......17

I felt QR was really difficult :/ what do you guys think??

Review your mistakes. Don't get caught up on the practice score too much. But I feel you -_-; I was getting stressed about my practice scores too. I am sure you made some careless mistakes on GC and OC. Just go over them and make sure you know how to do them. you should score 20+TS easy. I scored 4~5 points higher TS on the real deal if that makes you feel any better. Review them! and you should be fine.

2 weeks is plenty of time to improve your score on the d-day.
 
A lot, if not most people do better on the DAT than Topscore. Just don't get discouraged and keep on trucking.Wherever/whatever you got wrong, learn from it and refer to Chad's/textbooks.

Thanks!! but is this considered horrible? bad? haha I don't know what to feel about it :/
 
Thanks!! but is this considered horrible? bad? haha I don't know what to feel about it :/

In comparison to what I've seen when people post their breakdowns (I'm talking about the 20+ AA peeps), I'm pretty sure you got this. Most people don't do insanely well on their TopScore exams (there are a select few I've seen, but the majority that end up getting 20+ AA on the DAT seem to have similar scores to yours). Don't forget brotha', this is your first Topscore Exam. It's the perfect time to see what areas you're weak in and what areas you made silly mistakes in.

Having said that, I'm taking my exam in 2 weeks as well. If you think about it, 2 weeks is an INCREDIBLE amount of time to invest into studying for one exam. Just today alone I went through all of Chad's GC tests again, read 2 Chapters in Cliff's, and did a CrackDAT PAT test.

In 2 weeks time, you could go through Destroyer 2x, re-read areas you're unsure about in Cliff's (or whatever book you prefer), go through all of Chad's notes, go through all of Alan's Bio Notes, about 5 CDP tests, and 3-5 QR tests.

That's huge improvement. If a lot of the problems you got wrong are silly mistakes, then you have no reason to be worried. Simply correct the miscalculation/misinterpretation of the problem and instill it in your mind. If a lot of the problems you got wrong were due to not understanding the material, then, like I said earlier, 2 weeks is a huge amount of time.

You got this bro, I'm not worried about you.
 
feel good about it. you have 2 weeks left, just keep practicing.
 
In comparison to what I've seen when people post their breakdowns (I'm talking about the 20+ AA peeps), I'm pretty sure you got this. Most people don't do insanely well on their TopScore exams (there are a select few I've seen, but the majority that end up getting 20+ AA on the DAT seem to have similar scores to yours). Don't forget brotha', this is your first Topscore Exam. It's the perfect time to see what areas you're weak in and what areas you made silly mistakes in.

Having said that, I'm taking my exam in 2 weeks as well. If you think about it, 2 weeks is an INCREDIBLE amount of time to invest into studying for one exam. Just today alone I went through all of Chad's GC tests again, read 2 Chapters in Cliff's, and did a CrackDAT PAT test.

In 2 weeks time, you could go through Destroyer 2x, re-read areas you're unsure about in Cliff's (or whatever book you prefer), go through all of Chad's notes, go through all of Alan's Bio Notes, about 5 CDP tests, and 3-5 QR tests.

That's huge improvement. If a lot of the problems you got wrong are silly mistakes, then you have no reason to be worried. Simply correct the miscalculation/misinterpretation of the problem and instill it in your mind. If a lot of the problems you got wrong were due to not understanding the material, then, like I said earlier, 2 weeks is a huge amount of time.

You got this bro, I'm not worried about you.

why thank you my fellow UCSD friend haha no but really thanks a lot thats just what I needed to read!! I did review and some mistakes from gchem were stupid mistakes :/ but now I know what I have to do for next topscore!! Thank you all for the responses!!
 
keep up the practice. You will do fine. I score 2-3 points higher on every section. btw the real rc is considerably less detail oriented than the topscore.
 
why thank you my fellow UCSD friend haha no but really thanks a lot thats just what I needed to read!! I did review and some mistakes from gchem were stupid mistakes :/ but now I know what I have to do for next topscore!! Thank you all for the responses!!

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