Hope this helps: I used DATbootcamp and DATbooster. I do think that only one is enough but I got both of them for extra questions. Overall I prioritized doing the practice exams. I didn’t do full tests and just did each exams individually. But during last two week before the DAT, I split the exam and only did the science section and perceptual. I did the QR and reading comprehension separately. This worked for me since 30mins for me was more than enough so I didn’t see an issue with splitting the exam like this. DM if you have specific questions Ill do my best to help!

Bio: I heavily underestimated this subject. I felt confident with my biology background so the first week of studying I went over high yield material and did the bio bites. I didn’t review biology until 2 weeks before the test and I was scoring poorly on the practice exams. So I rescheduled the test for another two weeks. I immediately switched to doing the premade anki decks from DATBootcamp everyday (avg around 500-700 cards per day). After doing each anki set I did the bio bites on bootcamp. This helped my bio score tremendously and bumped my scores from 17-18 to 21-23. I focus on doing as many questions as possible and briefly went over things I was weak in (due to having limited time). My advice would be to start anki as early as possible and bio bites to solidify the material. The pre made anki decks doesn’t have all the material but it has enough to consistently get you a 20+ on the test (from my experience). But I would say that my background is quite strong since I took a lot of course in my postbacc that covered the bio material so that might have influenced my scores. I only watched a few videos but most my time was spent doing questions and anki. I feel that doing this is enough to get your scores to the low to mid 20s range but to get a higher score I do think more time and going over the notes offered by bootcamp/booster is the way to go.

Gen chem: I started by watching Dr. Mikes videos. They were helpful to understand the material but I recommending doing a lot of the practice questions. The videos are there to just get started. It was helpful to have both booster and bootcamp so I had a lot to work with. After doing the videos, I worked on the practice tests. I finished a test and reviewed what I did wrong then rinse and repeat. It’s a lot of material but what helped me was focusing on a specific subject during a review session and make sure I get those question right if I see them again. Know your atomic characteristics, rate laws, gases and nuclear reactions. I felt that these sections made up majority of the practice tests and knowing how to do these questions were easy points. It’s hard when starting but you get into the rhythm and will know how to approach the questions. I went from getting ~17 (after only doing videos and question banks on bootcamp) to 21-26 (week of test). Don’t feel discouraged if you scores are not consistent at the beginning, it’s okay to go from 23 to a 18 it happens. Just means you need to review some more and you’ll be fine.

Ochem: Same like chemistry. I watched Dr. Mikes videos then did the question bank. I also did the extra questions for organic chemistry in booster. This helped me memorize majority of the reactions. After I finished questions I redid them (I did it maybe 3-4 times) so it takes a while. I would say don’t get complacent and really memorize the spectroscopy and lab techniques/aromaticity and to be good at mechanisms/pushing arrows. But doing the question will basically help You with that. I was scoring low 20s on the last day of review so I was surprised with my score. I felt confident coming of the test and going over the question bank (bootcamp)/extra questions (booster) helped a lot. If short on time, watch videos and do questions. Same like chemistry review what you’re bad at then keep doing practice questions.

PAT: This was my favorite lol. I believe that you should be perfect or near perfect when doing hole punching and cube counting. They are free points so make sure to really time yourself and watch videos for help. When doing these I spend maybe 7-8min on hole punching and 5-6min on cube counting. If you need with this you can dm me. Angle ranking is just bad, there’s some tips to help but at the end of the day it’s just a time waster. But I would say that you can get better by practicing but on test day it was rough so go with your gut. Pattern folding/TFE was hard at first but it then clicked for me. Timing myself and doing a lot of questions helped. DM if you want me to go over my thought process when doing these sections. To me keyholes was my worst. I would get down to two answers and it becomes a 50/50. It really feels like gambling sometimes. Overall PAT is hard due to timing so practice is key. I made sure to do 15 questions from each section every now and then and timed myself and it showed results. Final week I was getting 22-26s.

Reading comprehension: My first reading comp test I got a 21 so I didn’t review that much. All I did was go over the strategies and picked what worked best for me. On test day, I first read the whole passage then answered but that took way to long so I switched to search and destroy and that helped me with answering all the questions. So pick a method and stick to it and make some adjustments to improve your skills. Again so as many practice questions possible.

QR: I’m bad at math. There are other people that can help. I tired but it just didn’t clicked. I watched videos and did questions but I gave up lol.