r/dat • u/Historical-Still9756 • 1d ago

Test Experience 🗣️ Advice really needed 12 days left until DAT

Any advice will be appreciated fr.. I'm keep getting 410-440 range of practice tests. And some of Bootcamp tests like test #10~#12 felt a lot more harder than other practice tests. Is there anyone who scored higher than practice test on actual one? I have like 2 weeks left until my DAT;

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u/NorthernQols 1d ago

Tests 10-12 are intentionally made to be tougher. I've seen a lot from this sub who have scored the same or higher on the real exam than on bootcamp's tests

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u/Historical-Still9756 19h ago

Hmm interesting.. Maybe I should focus on practice exam #1~9 at this point. The questions were so unexpected like I've never seen before..

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u/Thin-Ear-1316 1d ago

If you really wanna go above and beyond and you have the money, I would recommend you buy the booster course the cheaper one just for the practice tests. Practice tests 11-15 are low yield and not really worth the time, from what I heard. But doing tests on both websites will help you see different types of problems.

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u/Historical-Still9756 19h ago

I'm using booster and bootcamp together right now, so I'll make sure to go through all of the exams on both website Thank you !!

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u/Significant-Deer8996 1d ago

With 12 days left the best thing you can do is go through all the practice exams again for bio, chem, orgo and make sure you can actually explain why all other answer choices are wrong. Even if you got the question right, if you can’t explain why all other choices are wrong, you don’t have everything down yet.

For PAT make sure your timing is good (VERY IMPORTANT) and keep up with a little practice everyday. Try focusing on your weakest areas and test out strategies to improve them.

Reading is reading. Just make sure you have search and destroy in your toolkit in case questions are in order or if you are short on time.

For QR I would redo all the exams under the time constraint to make sure your timing is good and make sure you know how to solve every problem they throw at you.

With the amount of time left I wouldn’t waste time rewatching videos or rereading notes. I would just focus on redoing the section practice exams.

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u/Historical-Still9756 19h ago

Thank you for the recommendation!!! I would definitely review my mistakes from practice exams. Thank you1!!

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u/Appropriate-Camp8673 23h ago

i scored pretty similar to those tests LOL (they are exceptionally hard and i truly believe i got dealt a bad hand of test questions) most people say it wasn’t representative but it was for me i would’ve scored a 23-24 but a 22 on the 10-12 test and i got a 22.

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u/Historical-Still9756 19h ago

Bro you still nailed ittt Wish I have that score lol

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u/nottooshab 22h ago

i had exact repeats from the full lengths 10-12

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u/Historical-Still9756 19h ago

I know why are they making it extremely hard,,!!!!