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Competition to enroll in dental school is at its all-time peak. As the #1 best-selling guide for dental school admissions, Kaplan DAT offers the targeted training students need to achieve a high score. The DAT, required for acceptance to all U.S. dental schools, is designed to measure general academic ability, comprehension of scientific information, and perceptual ability. Kaplan DAT prepares students by providing two full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, intensive science and quantitative reviews, a reading comprehension practice section, and test-like exercises for the perceptual ability test. Also included is a full-color pull-out study guide that maximizes students’ learning and memorization through the use of images, charts, facts, and diagrams. For anyone looking to achieve a competitive score on this challenging test, Kaplan DAT provides the best preparation available.

Amazon Sales Rank: #7177 in Books Published on: 2010-05-04 Released on: 2010-05-04 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 1.31" h x 8.38" w x 10.80" l, 3.68 pounds Binding: Paperback 816 pages

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Most helpful customer reviews 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Good but not great review book By Stephen W Hansen I just took the DAT today, scoring a 23 on the PAT and an average of 26 on the academic portion, and thought out I'd review this DAT prep book by Kaplan while the experience was fresh in my mind. My DAT-specific prep was conducted entirely with this book. First things first, this book is not a substitute for a prior well-rounded education in the sciences. You can memorize all 500 or so pages of science and math review, and there will still be a lot of things you will miss on the DAT. That said, it is a great review tool to assist you in dusting off some of those old concepts you may have learned a year or two ago. It covers the broad, "big idea" concepts very well and it also goes into reasonable detail on some of the more commonly tested areas such as cellular respiration and the endocrine system (a section I found especially helpful). However, if it's been more than a couple years since your last biology or chemistry class or you performed poorly in them, you will most likely want to invest in an actual textbook and/or a tutorial course to help you learn the concepts at a more detailed level. The PAT section is the single most useful feature of the book, but it also has its weaknesses. It gives you a full PAT practice session in addition to the two full length practice DAT's, along with a bevy of useful tips and recommendations. Some of the tips and techniques listed are really helpful in solving the more difficult PAT questions, and the pacing advice they give is very useful too, as it is extremely easy to run out of time on that section. In my opinion, just the familiarity with the kinds of questions the 3 total practice PAT sections give you is of great benefit. Whether you purchase this book or not, I would recommend in the strongest terms some sort of practice PAT materials, practice really helps. You simply don't have time during the actual test to try and figure out what is happening on the fly--you have to come in to it knowing what to expect. The PAT section is far from perfect, however. The practice PAT sections, while challenging, were relatively easy compared to the version of the actual DAT I took. The shapes in the keyhole section were more complicated. The angles in the angle ranking questions were much more similar. The folds in the hole punching section were more complicated. The practice PAT included will help you understand and become familiar with the types of questions, but expect to perform worse on the actual thing and study accordingly. The biggest drawback to Kaplan's book is the lack of proofing. A typo here and there isn't a big deal, but there are occasional serious typos in the questions in the practice sets themselves. An important bond might be missing in an organic molecule. An equation might read 4x = 5 = 9 instead of 4x - 5 = 9. Their answer might even be wrong. At least one of their answers for the pen and paper practice test in the organic chemistry sections was flat wrong. Overall the pen and paper practice test is pretty good, only in a question or two did I feel that the question or the answer was seriously compromised. The online test is much worse, there were probably a dozen or so serious errors. On two occasions the online test gave the correct answer as "E" when the only choices were "A" through "D". Furthermore, the answer key for the PAT in the online test does not sure the correct 3 dimensional shapes--you have to figure out what you did wrong yourself. The online test isn't entirely without value: it is presented in the same format as the real DAT so it does help you to get accustomed to the format of the real thing, and even with all of its flaws it still gives you more practice. I've listed quite a few drawbacks here, but I would still recommend this book because I feel that I was able to use it to great advantage. I cannot compare it against