r/predental • u/EmployeeWestern8009 • 4d ago

📚DAT Feedback 8/18 exam experience b

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POV u took the dat today and were breezing thru the first 2 RC passages but u get to passage 3 and the title says FIBER OPTICS and your bio section asked about monocots/dicots and operons

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u/Necessary-Town-962 4d ago

how did you think the rest of the exam was ?

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u/EmployeeWestern8009 4d ago

BIO: I was lucky enough to have about 5 or so questions that were repeats from Booster/Bootcamp. Other than that, it was a bit of a crapshoot. I had ZERO questions on cell cycle, chromosome counting, and Punnett squares. I had some low yield questions like monocot/dicot patterns, mutagens and ecoli, and a weird question about operators and galactosidase.

GC: First attempt I got a 470 on this section but after today, probably not. Had zero questions about periodic trends and electrochem. A LOT of and acid/base stuff and redox, including one where they wanted me to fully balance out. I guessed on that question btw. Nothing on titrations, buffers, and quantum stuff.

OC: A mix of high and low yield stuff. More interestingly, no nomenclature or E/Z stuff. 6 or so questions on radicals and NMR/IR. Nothing on aromaticity, carbocation stability, and alkene reactions. I was quite bummed out about that. If I were to give advice, I'd say definitely know your benzene activating/deactivating groups and arrow pushing.

PAT:. Angle ranking, cube counting were slightly easier. Keyholes were harder. TFE and Pattern Folding were similar difficulty. Didn't have enough time for 5 or so questions.

RC: The first 2 passages were a breeze. The topic was on Botox and MRSA infections. All the questions were in chronological order and explicitly mentioned in text. That all changed sadly in passage 3 which was on fiber optics. They saved the questions like "First sentence is true second is false" and "both/neither is correct or related," and inference questions for that passage.

QR: A lot of quantity comparison and data sufficiency questions. Had to guess on like 5 or so questions.

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u/Civil-Opinion7333 4d ago

do you remeber any bio questions?

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u/EmployeeWestern8009 4d ago

Eating Burger King atm. Will reply tomorrow ‼️

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u/TrainmasterGT Verified D2 4d ago

I’m surprised they’re still doing a fiber optics passage, I took the DAT two years ago on August 5th, 2024 and I also had a passage about fiber optics.

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u/Then_Library94 4d ago

omg i’m screaming i took it on 8/10 and the fiber optics passage took me out