How to Prepare for the Dental Admissions Test (Barron's How to Prepare for the Dental Admissions Test (Dat)),   ISBN:9780764105777

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I have been going through this book and recently took a practice test. I was incredibly frustrated to find out that there are numerous mistakes in their answer keys. There were several answers that I knew for a fact were correct and upon checking my answers to information in recent text books, I was indeed correct and the answer key was not. It is very annoying to pay money for a test preparation tool just to find out that they did not take the time to double check everything. The information contained in the book before the practice tests is helpful, especially the PAT section, but don't waste your time with the tests unless you want to look up every answer to verify whether or not your answer is correct. Stick with Kaplan or other big name test preparation books.

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I have this Barron's review book for DAT. It is filled with errors and mistakes. The review lecture contains materials that are not only misleading but sometimes contradict most current edition of organic chemistry textbook (ex. read the Sn1 and Sn1 solvent). Even the practice test are filled with wrong answer and incomplete explanation. The diagrams are often incorrectly illustrated, especially in the PAT section. Chances are that you will end up missing more points because of the wrong information in this book. I would recommend Kaplan's prep material instead. Final advise: don't waste your money for this cheap book!

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The best part of this book is definitely the PAT. It offers a lot of strategies and has more practice problems than other books I looked at. I also like the section they have in the beginning of the book for pre-dents, which offers advice on things like recommendation letters and interviews.

The concerns that I have with this book are that I've seen the many complaints about mistakes in the answer key, and I can't tell whether I really got a question wrong or if it's a typo. Also, the math and science sections aren't sufficient. I wish that Barron's would update this, too, because it was published about 10 years ago, and I'd like to have most up to date study material possible.

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Ok, this is the first book I bought because I thought, this can help.

It doesn't. You might as well get a 6th grade bio book and read that, which would have more information than this book. This book gives you one-line facts about things that you seriously need to know in-depth for the DAT.

As mentioned by another Amazonian, the PAT is probably the ONLY reason to get this, and it's probably a poor reason because this book has sooo many typos. It's not even the typos that makes me so disgruntled... the book will answer questions with wrong answer! or it'll provide you with 2 "right" answers, but choose the lesser true of the two.

i.e. How does a catalyst work?

There was an answer of "Lowers Activation Energy," which should be right, but was not! ummm, are this is for the DAT?

Sure, the title says "How to prepare for the DAT." Yeah, this only prepares you to PREPARE for the DAT.

Customer Rating: 

good, 2 tests in it, comprehensive, not heavy to carry with you