When to schedule my DAT. any help or advice please

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I have been studying a good amount for about 3 weeks now (~5 hours a day) and so far I have finished Chad's Videos for Gchem and 90% of OChem, gone through almost all of Cliffs AP, and have gone through half of Destroyer Gen Chem so far. also, I've dabbled with a couple RC Practice tests.

I also did DAT Bootcamp GC Test #1 and scored a 24.

I haven't touched PAT or QR yet.

I want to take the DAT in August before I go back to school (September 1), but I was just wondering if someone could help me out on when to take it. The available dates I am looking at are August 17, 24th, or 27th.

What I plan on doing until my Test day is finish up Chad's Ochem videos, Finish Cliffs AP.. start Feralis Bio notes and go through it a couple times, and go through Destroyer for each section atleast twice...

Any suggestions on when to take the actual exam? (also i will be going on vacation towards the end of July for 4 days where I will not be studying) . any help or advice will be appreciated

 

[hellofuturedentists]

If you're only looking at those three dates, I'd say go for August 17 because it still leaves you plenty of time to study and it's the earliest. You could probably go even earlier.
Also (unsolicited advice), you should probably start working on PAT. That section needs a lot of time to practice and you can't really cram for it.

 

[DetermineDent]

Give yourself at least 10 days of studying (8 hours or so each day) to finish your first round of Destroyer, should be quicker second time around.

I would do the earliest day possible, lol