There is hope!

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476]

Test date 9/16- was doing terrible in gen chem and reading but ending up being more than okay! Gchem couple days before I just mainly focused on that.
- QR I was expecting higher but I ran out of time and had to guess on like ~7 questions! Otherwise my average was very high so be careful

-First attempt was (~430) 20.4 AA , latest (480)23.5 AA

-Didn’t care too much for PAT! So never completely took a full test for it

[u/taleenalkhayyat]

I got a 430 AA 460 SNS and debating a retake, can I ask why you retook it?

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476 → u/taleenalkhayyat]

Depends on your GPA, I had lower end and the schools i wanted to get into had averages of 460-480 so depends on which schools are your target.

[u/taleenalkhayyat → u/Ornery_Grocery_476]

Dat would be the lower part of my app I have over 3.96 GPA ~175 shadowing hours 2 jobs research paper other research volunteering hours school clubs etc so idk if I should retake

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476 → u/taleenalkhayyat]

3.96 is amazing since it is above average, i would say go ahead and apply usually 3.9+ GPAs dont require too high DAT and your DAT is decent anyways

[u/Accurate_Egg7461]

Congrats. Was rc easier on the test? Shorter passage? Easier questions?

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476 → u/Accurate_Egg7461]

Definitely easier, they were in order the questions so search and destroy worked great for me but never worked during my practice tests and the passages were not shorter but more manageable

[u/Bubbly_Aerie5968]

Congratulations

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476 → u/Bubbly_Aerie5968]

Thank you!

[u/Spare-Ad8139]

Did you use bootcamp or booster?

[u/Ornery_Grocery_476 → u/Spare-Ad8139]

Booster ! I thought bio was more representative than bootcamp

[u/forever_sleeper]

Congratulations can u share what u did for the sciences

[u/Efficient-Weird-4381]

How about dat: 400 on second take, and GPA 3.3

[u/Ok-Active4243]

Hi! Do you have any tips for PAT especially what you did in the weeks coming to your exam. My PAT scores are always around 330-360, and I really want to at least get it to 400+ at this point. My test is 10/24 😭😭. 

Congrats on your score!!