u/National_Wave8247

Hey guys! I took the DAT today and wanted to share my experience. To preface, this was a retake I took my dat the first time last February with a 21 AA ( 20 bio, 22 GC, 21 OC, 18 PAT, 19, QR, 22 RC)

I definitely felt better about it today than I did the last time I took. I used bootcamp in combination with booster and here are my thoughts on each section.

Bio- definitely was a little bit challenging, just kind of a lot of application I guess? And more obscure things I hadn’t really studied. There were a couple questions I had seen from booster/bootcamp on there but idk how else I could’ve prepared better for this section. 0 questions on taxonomy, 2 easy physio questions just really up in the air. I feel like I either did really good or really bad.

GC- was a LOT easier than booster but there were some calculations I wasn’t sure of and I didn’t have time to double check bc bio ate up a lot of time

OC- I thought I was really easy. 1 mechanism question, super easy which is the strongest acid questions and other intuitive stuff.

PAT- definitely not my strongest section. I thought hole punching cubes and angles were pretty easier than bootcamp but keyholes on the other hand were frightening today. Lots of confusing structures with a lot of fine lines to look at. I thought TFE was okay and pattern folding was annoying bc there wasn’t really any like dice/triangle ones it was all folding into shapes.

RC- very straightforward today. ~20 questions for the first passage and 12-15 for the last two. Passages were not super sciencey which was nice. My last dat the passage was about all the hepatitis variants and it got so confusing.

QR- simple but possibly deceiving? I don’t think they gave the worst section they could’ve but time was hard for me here. The lag was insane and it eats up so much time it made it hard to go back.

All in all, I studied my butt off for this and it sucks not knowing the scores yet :( the screen lag is so annoying and makes it impossible to be efficient.

Anyone else who took it today thoughts???

Taking it tmrw and very terrified. Wanna know yall's thoughts.

So I’m taking the DAT on Friday and obviously it looks like I won’t be getting a score back for at least 2 weeks which is after June 2nd the 1st day to submit the application. After I get the score back how long does it take to have my score sent to the application? How delayed will my application be because of this? Any help is really appreciated just really confused on this whole system.

I know there's a section of AASDAS where you can list other things going on in your personal life/ additional responsibilities and I was wondering if thats a valid thing to list? Because isn't being married technically a big responsibility or is it not viewed that way when it comes to these applications? I also am wondering what types of things you could write for the covid 19 box, because I was a highschooler in covid so I don't know that much applies?

Thanks for the help!!!!

I’m taking the DAT next Friday but seeing everybody have to wait 4 weeks to get their scores back is stressing me out because I’m applying this cycle and I was hoping that it would take 2 weeks tops so that I could still apply pretty early. Can you submit the application without your dat scores?