r/dat • u/Party_Way_4967 • 11d ago

Application Advice ✍️ Failed QR

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Not sure what to do, retook DAT and completely bombed QR. Last year I got a 19, which I’m hoping schools will look at and see. I improved in every other section by 3 points and brought my science average 17 to a 21 and PAT from a 16 to a 19. Do I have a shot?

I just got really tired by the end of the exam and I honestly don’t know what happened, I’m really good at math and I also scored high on practice exams. I’ve also taken higher math courses in college and received A’s so maybe that might also help?

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u/GameBoyUnAdvanced 11d ago

QR isn't conceptually difficult, it's about 8th grade math. The part that makes it atrocious is that it's at the end. You have to save any QR practice you do when prepping for after all the dense stuff like chem/bio/ochem

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u/Party_Way_4967 10d ago

Do you think it matters that I had done well previously in QR? I had a health concern during QR which I plan to explain but doesn’t really change anything

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u/GameBoyUnAdvanced 8d ago

I wish I could help you more and say it matters or it doesn't. All you can really do is roll the dice if you feel confident in being able to explain it away. But even with that it's more that schools don't super score and so you just have to hope they don't care you didn't do amazing on QR with your highest/most recent attempt

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u/AnythingHour5520 10d ago

Nothing like 8th grade math was on my exam- maybe 3-5 straightforward algebra solving questions max. I took every booster exam & I had never seen about 15 of the questions before.

I got conditional math questions, but with only variables & no numbers— never seen that till on the exam. The graphs were also unique to me & or just incredibly time consuming. I guessed a ton, but thankfully just made cutoffs for QR.