Canadian DAT

[MCATwannabe]

I completely hate amalgams. Aside from the mercury composition issue, amalgam filling are usually more touch sensitive than composite.
I remember when I had an amalgam filling many many years ago, whenever spoon (or aluminum foil by mistake) would hit my amalgam I would get a touch sensitive feeling, more like a battery current passing through.


On the cosmetic side, Amalgams look horrible compared to white fillings.

[missmathematics]

Honestly I don't even see how one could do so well in this section unless the 2 or 3 degree difference is actually measured by a pencil. I have been practicing for about 2 months on crack dat and have stayed stagnant at about 4 mistakes in this section.

Originally Posted by phy241

I think you can measure the angle with your pencil. Everyone I know who wrote the DAT did that, there are no rules stating you can't do this as far as I know.

[zeroNINE]

I did a few practice tests once and after I finished I went back and measured it with a protractor, it was 1 degree difference. For those ones, just do your best and move fast.

[zap_man99]

Originally Posted by zeroNINE

I did a few practice tests once and after I finished I went back and measured it with a protractor, it was 1 degree difference. For those ones, just do your best and move fast.

this
cut your losses and guess-usually u can get it down to 2 answers
personally i found angles the hardest and probably missed a lot of those but still ended up doing well