Below is a cheat sheet you can use to study organic chemistry lab techniques tested on the DAT. Can’t see the notes above? Use this link to get the PDF instead.

What Do I Need to Score? The DAT grades you on 6 different subjects on a standard scale out of 30 points. The average test taker will score a 17 (50th percentile). The average for acceptance is a 19-20AA (~85th percentile). This is just an average though, a quick look at the ADEA Guide to Read More

There are 40 questions in the quantitative reasoning section of the DAT, all with varying difficulty. You will most likely react to each question in one of three ways: You will laugh at how easy the question is. You will be suspicious that the question seems too easy. You will find the question to be Read More

This is an important issue to address, because I feel a lot of study materials for the DAT sway pre-dental students in the wrong direction. The biggest issue I can relate to is the heavy focus on calculation based questions in other DAT prep books. The real DAT general chemistry section focuses heavily on conceptual Read More

This is a tough question every student preparing for the DAT faces. Here’s the truth: you’ll never feel ready (unless you’re one of those prodigies who only studies for a week). Even after studying for 3 months on every kind of material I could get my hands on, I didn’t feel like I was at Read More

The DAT general chemistry section expects you to be fluent in chemical compounds. For example, do you know the formula for chromate? Below is a selected list of common ions you should know for the DAT (click for full image). * Also, a common mistake I see is people thinking helium is a diatomic molecule Read More