The Dental Admission Test (DAT) can be taken by contacting the Dental Admission Testing Program (DAT) and requesting an application. The DAT is scored from 1-30, 30 being the highest combined score. The scores may be sent to five schools. To send your scores to additional schools it is a $10 fee/school. The DAT is computerized and available on a daily basis.

The DAT is the best indicator to compare students from different universities. Although grades are equally important, grading is subjective by the standards of individual colleges.

DAT (Four Components)

Survey of Natural Sciences (90 minutes)
Biology- 40 questions
General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Perceptual Ability Test (60 minutes)
Angle Discrimination
Hole Punching
Cubes
Paper Folding
Aperture Matching
Orthographic Projections

15 MINUTE BREAK

Reading Comprehension Test (50 minutes)
Three passages
Quantitative Reasoning Test
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry

Related books on this topic:
Mechanical Aptitude and Spatial Relations Test (book)
Mechanical and Spatial Aptitude, ARCO (book)
DAT-Dental Aptitude Test (book)