Sample DAT Comprehensive Syllabus
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quantitative Reasoning; Reading Comprehension
In Session
- Review Destroyer questions
- Review peer-reviewed article
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #1
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #2
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #3
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #4
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #5
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #6
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #7
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #8
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #9
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
Homework
- DAT Bootcamp: Full length test #10
Practice Testing
In Session
- Practice test review
- Test day prep
Homework
- N/A (last session before exam)