-->Miss Pearl<-- Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hey!.. Well..I was wondering if anyone knew some intitutions or centres where I can prepare for the DAT exam? for example: for the carving component - is there any place I can get a hands-on learning experience? I live in BC...so ya somewhere around here... Also, would anyone know of a website that lists places for DAT training/classes/courses all over Canada?? I would greatly appreciate if someone could answer this for me Sincerely, -->Miss Pearl<-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddents Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 hey check out Kaplan website.They conduct DAT prep classes in both States and Canada. here is the website: http://www.kaptest.com/. go here and click on DAT and then locate where and when classes are held in BC. Goodluck with the DAT prep. just give them a call if you are too lost on the website. Hey!.. Well..I was wondering if anyone knew some intitutions or centres where I can prepare for the DAT exam? for example: for the carving component - is there any place I can get a hands-on learning experience? I live in BC...so ya somewhere around here... Also' date=' would anyone know of a [b']website[/b] that lists places for DAT training/classes/courses all over Canada?? I would greatly appreciate if someone could answer this for me Sincerely, -->Miss Pearl<-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-->Miss Pearl<-- Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Dear ddents, U are wonderful!!!...thank u soooooooooo much :D :D .... -->Miss Pearl<-- hey check out Kaplan website.They conduct DAT prep classes in both States and Canada. here is the website: http://www.kaptest.com/. go here and click on DAT and then locate where and when classes are held in BC. Goodluck with the DAT prep. just give them a call if you are too lost on the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flintabatty Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 heres the one i used to prepare, they sell all materials for soap carving, similar but not exact to cda specs. http://www.rockthedat.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBCfnh Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Personally I think Kaplan is a waste of money. I would just buy the book from Chapters and use it for the bio and chem sections. The Rock the Dat course is good for the carving and PAT sections (and mock DAT). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolwater Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 kaplan is definitely a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddents Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 hey "Miss Pearl"..i would agree with all of them. The reason I suggested Kaplan DAT is because this is the only thing I know of regarding Dat that has classes held all over Canada. My experience was not that great with it. I pretty much learnt everything on my own. THey were of not that much help. But i have also come across people who think the otherwise which is another reason as to why I suggested this to you. I would say survey around and for sure look into other things like Rock the Dat and Chapters text on DAT. Coz Kaplan does not help that much as much effort you yurself have to put in. I would suggest get the text and there are also some prep CDs that go through the whole carving section and even perceptual. And study through those. Kaplan classes would be a waste of time and money in my opinion. But then again it varies per person. Goodluck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tode Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 I agree with everyone else: you're better off studying on your own. Especially with carving, all you need is just to practice, over and over and over again. Besides, what are they going to teach you about carving, how to use a ruler? I found the guide books to be enough. I would only urge you to get the carving materials directly from the CDA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicktheDentist Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 I completely agree. Just buy the Kaplan book and practice your carving. You should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flintabatty Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 u know, i thought the same thing about the carving, but there are some great techniques i got shown that cut the carving time in half for me. they arent genius, kinda thought i should have figured them out on my own, but it also was a good opportunity to meet people and see the facility (it was held for 2 days at the dental school). Some trick to save time for the pat as well. But, the carvins soap is much easier to use that you can buy from them, so you would still want to get soap from the cda as well as said before, the rockthedat soap is still useful for technique however, i highly recommend rockthedat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBCfnh Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 I also thought the rockthedat course was really good. I already had lots of experience carving before I took the course, but they had some good tips that I hadn't heard before. Also I took the DAT tutor course at UBC years back and I think the rockthedat course is much better in many ways (ie. the structure and organization of the course!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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