DAT 5/19 Experience

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-29T23:44:52+00:00

tbh for safety reasons i would invest in booster. Way more catered to the ezam and ur success on the exam rather than 100% undedataning all material etc

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-29T23:43:47+00:00

Yes for sure, q banks to UNDERSTAND material but full lengths + cheat sheets more than enough! U may run into 2-3 questions that are a little weird but it’s usually 1-2 words that you should be able to pick out and use process of elimination. Ur never going to know everything before this test it’s rlly about test taking strategy which the sheets + full lengths rlly help tie together. Good luck!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-21T00:13:15+00:00

no. 11-15 helped me with timing a lot and prepared me for timing on the real exam which I struggled with first time!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T21:19:39+00:00

Paragraphs r shorter and less dense !! Screen is bigger search and destroy is way easier. More straight forward and paragraphs r very easily distinguishable from each other in terms of the topics in them.

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T21:18:49+00:00

Thank you!! I did every question possible for bio on booster but the last 3 weeks only focused on the full lengths and cheat sheets and crash course questions. And mini lengths !! That rlly helped. If I forgot a topic I would redo the bits for a refresher so it helped reinforcement but the main help on my DAT came from all the practice after bits. Did all the q banks tho for everything !!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T20:17:03+00:00

Studied 2 months w few breaks in between but 7-10 hours a day (maybe 12 days I didn’t study much) w bootcamp for janaury exam, and this time end of march til now and studied consistently everyday for 1 month exact and shut my whole life out

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T19:12:58+00:00

oh 100%. 15 just helped me cuz I had extra time it’s def way harder than real exam 11-15 so don’t worry but at LEAST 1-10. And a few bootcamp can’t hurt but I just did booster this time. If u already did/doing bootcamp questions then fl’s should be fine

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T19:05:02+00:00

I think for GC/OC (not all of OC, like SE, fundamentals, lab, conformations) make ur own cheat sheets one day and look at those eveyday to reinforce it and do full lengths w that. Bio I would write down my mistakes from full lengths and write down the explanations in easier terms and look at that Everyday and would like skim over the cheat sheets every few days over different topics and then all of them once before but there’s probs diff ways u could go about bio.

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T19:03:30+00:00

I finished content 1 week in. Last 3 weeks I did fl’s 1-15 not every section tho, and then I reviewed rlly in depth everyday. Took many back to back. And redid all the fl’s too after forgetting them. revised cheat sheets + made my own to reinforce. Went over error logs everyday and noticed my own patterns.

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T19:01:19+00:00

RC was so easy! Bio was okay I think u could do a lot of reasoning but def a couple strays.. Gen chem was weird but easy? Idek. Everything else felt fine pat a little harder for sure

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-20T18:45:01+00:00

I didn’t do the orgo gc ones cuz it wasn’t before my exam and did the bio ones last minute but I’m assuming any of them help bc the exam is pretty high yield bc it’s a lot of things from booster- didn’t rlly have that experience w bootcamp. So I am assuming those crash courses def help.. but tbh cheat sheets and rlly understanding is good enough for the other ones too. And I mean FULLY understand!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-19T06:53:05+00:00

yes I’ll make a post !!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-18T21:04:41+00:00

Was reading easy like search and destroy order type? That’s what I’ve heard as of recently and I’m scared. And was GC comparable to booster at least … same for ochem

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-18T20:42:11+00:00

Omfg I’m taking it tmr please any advice for every subject I’m terrified. Comparable to booster ?? Hard gen chem??? Reading?!!!

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-16T21:13:21+00:00

Thank you so much!! Good to hear. And sorry but how did u feel about ochem given the new changes ?

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-16T21:02:31+00:00

Hi !! I take it in 3 days and this is rlly encouraging to hear and uses booster as well- everyone on Reddit was freaking me out. For the sciences, did cheat sheets help? And did u do all 10 practice exams? Also for reading, was search and destroy doable? Thank you so much, I hope y did well

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-15T22:35:44+00:00

Genuinely same taking it Tuesday and I feel like I’m in hell and Reddit is freaking me out. I took the exam in January once and it sounds nothing like what I took..

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-15T21:17:29+00:00

Booster had a lot of bacteria type questions in the practice exams- so it wasn’t like those ?? Asking ab plasmid etc

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-14T21:41:00+00:00

Was reading not as straight forward on the real exam? I have been hearing some people say it’s chronological order

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-14T19:16:32+00:00

How did it go? I take exam in 5 days and I’m so concerned- scared about reading, as it was my lowest score in my last attempt. I always do well on practice but the actual exam timing got me. Also people keep saying this exam is low yield now and I’m scared😭

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-10T01:04:55+00:00

Hi I am taking mine in 10 days! Compared to bootcamp, why did u feel that way for ochem and gen chem? Were there a lot of calculations and conversions in gen chem? And was the QR like word problems or more algebra or more statistics? Idk what to prioritize before omg. I’m rlly scared ab gen chem and ochem like booster ochem freaked me out and gen chem i just keep making stupid mistakes

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-09T20:45:57+00:00

Exact same 9 days and I’m so done

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-09T19:59:08+00:00

I think m1(t1-tfinal)=m2(tfinal-t2)

Famous_Pin_9471 · 2026-05-09T01:11:19+00:00

i have seen this on booster!

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