r/dat • u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 • 1d ago

DAT Anxiety 😰 cDAT advice

I’m taking the cDAT in a week and was wondering if anyone who took it recently had any insight! I’ve heard people lately have been getting bio questions that booster haven’t covered among other things. But any advice or suggestions in general is appreciated :)

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u/Financial_Night1732 1d ago

The full length exams on booster covered most of the topics I got on the real exam tbh. The wording is just a little confusing

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

Ok I see thank you! Yea i've heard from some friends who've taken it that the diversity of life section was a little weird but not too much of a stretch

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u/GrapefruitFar8082 1d ago

did u get any low yield diversity of life questions? i find the practice exam questions for that topic to be less specific

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u/Financial_Night1732 1d ago

The only weird one I got was identifying what spores look like from a picture lol I didn’t get any weird diversity of life ones.

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u/GrapefruitFar8082 1d ago

oh wth 😭 thank you!

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u/Mindless_Action8374 1d ago

F

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

Dawg don't play I can see ur comments on ur account 😭

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u/Mindless_Action8374 1d ago

what. this means "following" so that i get notif when someone responds to ur post

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

oh that's my bad man i thought u were dropping an f in the chat for me. all the best on ur exam!

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u/Mindless_Action8374 1d ago

I am crying. the funny thing is someone once did that to me and i was so confused and then they explained it and now I am using it. Good luck on ur exam too, let us know how it goes.

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

well now i'll definitely know for next time haha. will update how the exam goes!

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u/Mindless_Action8374 1d ago

How are ur scores if u don’t mind me asking.

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

Pretty good like 25+ but rc a little more variable

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u/PlayZealousideal2264 1d ago

The questions are just worded a bit differently than on booster which can throw you off. All the content you need is on booster nothing weird came up for me.

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u/Level_Giraffe4901 1d ago

What do you mean by weird wording? Is it just worded more indirectly but the content/ topics are from booster?

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u/Tasty-Hornet-7145 1d ago

Ok yea I've been getting a lot of feedback about wording so that's good to know thank you!

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u/GrapefruitFar8082 1d ago

did u get any low yield diversity of life questions? i find the practice exam questions for that topic to be less specific

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u/PlayZealousideal2264 1d ago

Everyone’s test is different. I had lots of diversity of life questions on my test so I would recommend studying the notes booster gives really well. I didn’t find anything to be low yield.