Sample DAT Comprehensive Syllabus
This syllabus provides a full, in-depth overview of all major topics covered on the DAT. It is split into 30 sessions, covering high yield topics you'll find on the test. In between each session, you'll spend time engaging in the material on your own. Your tutor will work with you to clarify challenging concepts, work through practice questions, and reinforce proper exam techniques.
Sample Sessions
A structure catered to you
For most effective learning, we recommend sessions 1-20 be completed at 2 sessions a week, 2 hours per session. Sessions 21-30 can be held once a week, with the other day dedicated to sitting for a full length practice test (in testing conditions).
1
Introduction to the DAT
Goals and expectations
In Session
- Test overview and scoring
- Diagnostic breakdown
- Individualized goals and expectations
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
2
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Naming ionic compounds
- Naming molecular compounds and acids
- Molecular Bonding Geometry and Hybridization
- Sigma and Pi bonds
- Orbital Hybridization
- Resonance Structures
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
3
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Balancing reactions
- Limiting reactants
- Acid-Base definitions
- Ranking acids and bases with CARDIO
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
4
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Electron Configuration
- Exceptions (Cr, Cu)
- Excited Electron configurations
- IUPAC and alkanes
- Naming compounds
- Naming aromatics
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
5
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Lewis structures
- Formal charge/resonance contributors
- Hybridization and molecular geometry
- Polarity
- Isomers/Diastereomers
- Chirality and physical properties
- Meso compounds
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
6
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Periodic trends
- Degrees of unsaturation
- Spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy analysis
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
7
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Gases
- Kinetic Molecular Theory
- Gas Laws
- Real Gas Equation
- Intermolecular forces
- Acid-Base extractions
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
8
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Intermolecular forces
- Vapor pressure
- Phase diagrams
- Alkene reactions
- Carbocation rearrangements
- Alkyne reactions
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
9
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Solubility of compounds
- Solubility rules
- Solubility of gases and solids, Henry’s Law
- Colligative Properties
- Raoult’s Law
- SN1, SN2 reactions
- E1, E2 reactions
- Choosing SN1, SN2, E1, E2
- Exceptions to substitution and elimination
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
10
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Rate laws and constants
- Arrhenius Equation
- Reaction mechanisms
- Radical halogenation
- Diels-Alder reaction
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
11
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Reaction Quotient
- Le Chatelier’s Principle
- ICE tables
- Ksp and Molar solubility
- Common Ion Effect and Precipitation
- Aromaticity
- Side reactions of Benzenes
- Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
12
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Acid and Bases
- Trends of Acid strength
- pH and pOH calculations
- Strong and weak acid/bases
- Henderson-Hasselbalch
- Alcohol reactions
- Ether reactions
- Epoxide reactions
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
13
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Enthalpy of formation
- Thermodynamic equations
- Entropy
- Hess’s Law
- Gibbs Free Energy
- Carbonyl reactions
- Grignards and Organolithium reactions
- Michael’s additions (1,4)
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
14
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Oxidation states
- Redox reactions
- Voltaic/Electrolytic cells
- Reduction Potentials
- Nernst calculations
- Carboxylic acid properties
- Fischer esterification
- Hydride Reductions
Homework
- Select Bootcamp videos and question bank: BIO, GC, OC, QR
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
15
General Chemistry; Organic Chemistry
In Session
- Nucleus and nuclear particles
- Kinetics of Radioactive decay
- Fission, Fusion, Nuclear binding energy
- Alpha substitution reactions
- Aldol and Claisen condensation
- Ester synthesis
Homework
- Select DAT Destroyer Sciences questions
- Select DAT Destroyer QR questions
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
16
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- Select DAT Destroyer Sciences questions
- Select DAT Destroyer QR questions
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
17
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- Select DAT Destroyer Sciences questions
- Select DAT Destroyer QR questions
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
18
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- Select DAT Destroyer Sciences questions
- Select DAT Destroyer QR questions
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
19
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- Select DAT Destroyer Sciences questions
- Select DAT Destroyer QR questions
- Read peer-reviewed article
- Select PAT exercises
20
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #1
21
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #2
22
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #3
23
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #4
24
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #5
25
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #6
26
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #7
27
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #8
28
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #9
29
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #10
30
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
- Test day prep
Homework
- N/A (last session before exam)
