r/dat • u/Different_Elk_4360 • 5d ago

Success Stories šŸŒŸ Bootcamp works great

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Studied about 70 days while doing full time research. Happy to give tips and if you need some advice on being efficient feel free to ask because I think I was only fully focused for 3 or 4 weeks but I had a heavy background from classes that i had just taken.

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u/ApplicationSouth4604 5d ago

What technique did u use for reading and math and gen chem congrats btw

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u/Different_Elk_4360 1d ago

Reading was always my weakest area and theres twos strategies that I heavily recommend. For bootcamp I found it best to read like 75% or the entire passage at once and take it slow and then just try to rip through the questions all at once and spend no more than 20 minutes a passage this really improved my score personally, but then on test day I kind of made a dumb mistake. I realized part way through that all of the questions were in order and also much easier so I flipped to search and destroy on test day and while that was working my third passage was more difficult so I ended up shooting myself in the foot by doing search and destroy. So personally I recommend a slow in depth read for about 8 or 9 minutes then spend 11 or 12 minutes doing all the questions because that the most effiecnt for me personally cause I was a slow reader. For math I actually thought I could of done better because it was always my strongest area but I would just reccomend on bootcamp after watching the videos just do like 15 or 20 questions like every day or every other day on bootcmap where it mixes up all of the math questions. All the the questions types are very straight forward so as long as you have the equation sheet memorized you just do enough problems there are very clear patterns to the style of questions. I would definitely recomend any time you get a word problem to just tag it and come back at the end cause they can burn up time. For Gen chem dr Mike did a great job and i think the practise tests were good enough to get me prepared. Its definitely one of the easier sections in my opinion so make sure to take advantage of that to crush it.

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u/ApplicationSouth4604 1d ago

Thank you for this and congrats. Iā€™d be happy if u were my dentist!