Which program's practice tests are most like actual DAT?

[Nik2012]

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Kaplan's, TopScore, or Achiever? I'm hoping you'll say TopScore because I'm not finding them to be all that bad. I just wish I knew what to expect!

I take the DAT in two weeks so time is ticking!

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[Nik2012]

Any thoughts guys?

 

[xdianaax]

I heard Achiever was a pretty decent representative of the actual test. Of course there are those that argue there are different versions and some are closer than others, so I don't really know. Good luck.

 

[Brokenbus]

I used top score and seemed to score consistently lower than I did on the actual DAT. I think it is a good program

 

[predentlsu1]

I have taken the DAT twice.....the second time around I used Topscore but only took the first 2 test. I will be taking the DAT Sep 10th for a 3rd time and last week I made a 20AA on the 3rd Topscore test. However yesterday I took the 1st Achiever test and made a 17AA
I feel that some parts of the Achiever test are far more complicated than any DAT question you will get. Some of the bio questions are very specific and some of the g-chem questions are calculation heavy. So based on the previous two times I took the DAT I guess the test more resembled what was on Topscore. I would say that Topscore is probably representative of what you will get within +/- 1 point of Topscore test. However I know there are instances when people went up 2,3,4 points of what they were getting on Topscore but overall I think that Topscore is a decent representation of what you can expect to score. In my case I made a 17AA and an 18AA on the first two Topscore test and ended up making a 17AA the second time I took the DAT. That is just my opinion so take from it what you will.....everyone has different opinions and different experiences.

 

[Nik2012]

Ok, well I guess I will finish off the TopScore tests and move on to Achiever knowing it is a little more than I will see on the actual DAT. I still have some Kaplan tests to do as well.

Just seemed like for TopScore's biology for instance, it was a lot of fact recalling and I've heard on here that the DAT is not like that. ??

Guess I'll find out here in a couple of weeks. Thank you guys.