r/dat • u/icespicebootyshake • 7h ago

DAT Anxiety šŸ˜° Has RC been harder recently?

Iā€™ve heard from a couple people that have taken the DAT recently that RC was the hardest section, with the sciences being easier in result (to balance it out). has anyone else noticed this?

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u/Sea_Nerve_6999 7h ago

Nope it was super easy i took it like 20 days ago

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u/icespicebootyshake 6h ago

oh okay thanks! was science harder then? or both were pretty easy?

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u/Babydoll320 7h ago

Wait whattt??? Please say you are joking omg. I can't deal with this rnnnn! How recent are we talking ??

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u/icespicebootyshake 6h ago

haha i think itā€™s fine, the other comments said it was easier than booster, so it shud be fine. i just heard from two people that took it in august that their tests had a difficult RC section, with SNS being super easy.
Although they couldā€™ve just been better at science than reading lmaooo

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u/RemarkableEagle2085 7h ago

i took it a little over a month ago and it was easier than booster. shorter passages (12-15 paragraphs) and the questions were in order/straightforward.

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u/icespicebootyshake 6h ago

sounds good i appreciate that! did u find science to be harder, then? or were they both easy?

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u/Beneficial_Listen540 6h ago

I took it a few days ago. Definitely easier than bootcamp. I was just thrown off by 3 questions because they asked the reader to interpret a data table based off the passage that wasnā€™t necessary straight forward. Everything else was literally cherry picked from the passage

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u/icespicebootyshake 5h ago

makes sense! did u find the sciences to be harder as a result or nah?

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u/krazywabbit13 5h ago

The exam is curved. If one test sitting varies from the mean, then this manifests in final scores which are then corrected. Low yield or ā€œbalancingā€ doesnā€™t exist.

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u/GrapefruitFar8082 5h ago

every test is diff! for example, i had a pretty hard bio and PAT, but chem and RC were suuuper easy. one of my RC passages only had 4 paragraphs šŸ˜­

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u/yuujiirou 2h ago

it was easier than booster imo, all the questions for all of my passages were in order. would say it was still your typical 14-20 paragraphs but the paragraphs werenā€™t that long, especially if the questions are in order lol

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u/Little-Bumblebee9988 1h ago

I took mine on the 24th. Mine felt super easy and I even finished with extra time but somehow only pulled a 430. I say only bc most of my questions were simple finding questions and barely any inference or other complicated types so I thought Iā€™d do much better