Like all the other sections, the Organic Chemistry section of the DAT is straightforward. Using SRS cards will make the process mostly painless. What I did was go through DAT Destroyer and answer the questions. If I felt my answer was a ‘guess’, in that I felt pretty uneasy or just lacked the knowledge required to answer the question, I would skip it and put the relevant information in the answer section into SRS. If there was any information in the answer section for a question, even if I got it correct, that I felt was below mastery – into the SRS it went.
The first time I went through DAT Destroyer I got most questions wrong. On my sheet that I put answers I didn’t mark the answers as wrong, just put any information below mastery from the answer into SRS. I avoided having the fear of failure put into me and instead was excited about learning the information. About a week before my DAT exam I went back through DAT Destroyer and because of all the SRS cards I made and that I looked at them consistently, I got almost every question right. On the two official ADA practice exams I had one with only one question wrong, and the other with all correct. On the real DAT I scored a 21 in Ochem.
The helpful tools, card models, etc. for Organic Chemistry are found in the Table of Contents of this site.
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Hi Jonathan!
Thank you for these helpful posts on how to study for DAT. I am about to take DAT in 2 weeks.I had a question for you. The SRS that you made for the DAT destroyer- is it a shared deck in Anki? If not will it possible for you to please email me/ send those to me? THey will be REALLY helpful and will GREATLY help me achieve good scores. Thanks a lot, I truly appreciate it!!