What two hours actually covers.
Thirty questions in thirty minutes across a full year of general chemistry. The section rewards recognising a setup faster than it rewards computing one, and almost every student who is losing points here is losing them to arithmetic they were never supposed to do.
Where the points actually areThirty questions across a full year of general chemistry means the test samples, and it samples predictably. Which topics carry more questions than their share of the syllabus, and which ones you can study last.
pH and acid base, without a log tableWrite the concentration as a times ten to the negative b and the pH lands between b minus 1 and b, which kills most of the answer choices immediately. Then two memorized logs get you the rest of the way.
Equilibrium by inspectionLe Chatelier questions are almost always answerable by direction alone. When an ICE table is genuinely needed and, more often, when setting one up is the mistake.
Stoichiometry without the full gridLimiting reagent by ratio rather than by working both sides out completely, and the unit tracking that turns a messy problem into two steps.
Gases, solutions and thermoThe relationships worth memorizing versus the ones worth deriving in ten seconds, and the specific traps in each: partial pressures, colligative properties, and sign conventions on enthalpy and entropy.
The questions that look like math and are notA meaningful share of the section is concept checks wearing a calculation costume. How to recognise one in the stem before you have spent ninety seconds on it.
Timed sprint, coached liveA real timed set under section conditions, then every miss worked out loud.
Taught by Thomas
Founder · 510 AA · 99th percentile
Thomas scored a 510 and is a first-year dental student at Temple's Kornberg School of Dentistry. He took this test recently enough that the parts that mattered are still fresh, which is most of why the method is built around practice tests and miss logs rather than content videos.
What's included
The live 2-hour session with Thomas, Sunday, October 25, on Zoom.
Recording access for 7 days, so you can re-run a setup before your next practice test.
The chemistry trick sheets and a printable workbook, yours to keep.
A discount code for any future AceTheDAT program.
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