DAT PAT Practice Tests with Strategies and Full-length Practice Test from Gold Standard DAT

Comprehensive DAT PAT preparation, learn all relevant ADA content and Gold Standard strategies, includes thousands of DAT practice questions with helpful explanations, and over 400 pages in color.

Special Features: All official ADA topics taught in detail, Chapter Checklists, Need for Speed exercises, Spoiler Alerts for each chapter: Cross-references to real, retired ADA* DAT exam questions.

Book features include over 1000 DAT PAT practice questions, and a full-length DAT practice test (BIO, CHM, ORG, PAT, RC and QR), as well as:


  • Quick formulas such as the Gold Standard Paper Folding Quadrants (our hole punching/pattern folding trick) and the Gold Standard Cube Counting Formula will help you become more time-efficient.
  • We also present helpful angle ranking tricks so, with practice problem sets, you can choose which works best for you.
  • This study guide also comes with online access to PAT videos, hundreds of practice questions, and DAT PAT problem sets in the book and online for the original owner.
Book excerpt:

The Importance of the PAT Score 

The Perceptual Ability Test (PAT) is the only section in the DAT that does not require academic knowledge or training. It is designed to be used as a predictor of an applicant’s performance in the preclinical operative skills and restorative dentistry practical laboratory classes. The ability to perceive small differences is also important in selecting candidates for dental schools that require eye-to-hand fine motor coordination in their curriculum.

Just as perceptual aptitude is not typically correlated with general grade point average (GPA) in dental school, the PAT score is likewise NOT included in the computation of the DAT academic average score. The importance of your performance in this test
varies from school to school wherein the minimum requirement can be as low as 16 to as high as 20. Needless to say, the best way to determine the extent of your preparation for the PAT is to consult directly with the institution to which you are applying.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Gold Standard DAT Masters Series has assembled an enormous amount of quality DAT PAT practice questions for you - perhaps the most ever associated with a published book. The questions are in this book as well as online in exam format to simulate your upcoming real DAT. Your practice questions are associated with helpful solutions which may use color or video to help you better visualize the steps to take so you can practice the procedures to arrive at the right answer.
Aim to complete all of the practice questions available to you. If time does not allow that, use your resources like an open buffet: Focus on whichever sections you like based on your diagnostic performance from the mini tests or full section tests after each of the following chapters.

Book reviews:


5.0 out of 5 stars It’s bigger than you think!
This book is great. Really gives you an understanding of what’s going to be on the DAT.
Carole Lynn


5.0 out of 5 stars Great and informative
This book was clear. It had a system of explaining, short practice problems, then longer timed problems with explanations. These books tend to have a lot of typos but i didn't find one until almost page 200.
L amor