"And the back problem restricted him to just a single jump at the '35 Big Ten. "The scary part to me always has been how good Owens was for the very little long jump training he did," said Jon Hendershott, associate editor of Track and Field News. He followed with a record four individual titles at both the 19 NCAA championships (Owens scored 40 of the Buckeyes' 40.2 points at the '35 meet) and then exited track shortly after draping himself in glory in Berlin. He first drew attention when he tied the 100-yard dash world record of 9.4 seconds as a Cleveland high school senior in 1933. Owens' time in the national spotlight was short - only about four years. Indeed, 75 years later, Owens still holds the Buckeyes' school record in the long jump. "I don't think many people realize what a phenomenal athlete he was." "People are surprised at how competitive Owens would still be as an athlete today," said Robert Gary, the current Ohio State track and field coach and meet director of the annual Jesse Owens Track Classic in Columbus. That Owens took care of business in less than an hour - and with an injured back - adds even more luster to a name that has always ranked near the top of American sports heroes. It is the greatest single day performance in athletic history, superior to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point outburst or to the Redskins' Sammy Baugh throwing four touchdown passes and adding an NFL record four interceptions in one game. In fact, research affirms that the DAT is correlated with success in dental school, and, together with undergraduate GPA, is a powerful tool for schools to determine which applicants are likely to excel.But Owens' one-day blockbuster in Ann Arbor has no parallel, not only in track and field but in any sport. In this case, the tool is the DAT, and the task is to predict how likely it is that you will succeed in dental school. This trend is reflected in the DAT.Įvery good tool matches its task.
Currently, more emphasis is placed on problem-solving, holistic thinking, and cross-disciplinary integration. In recent years, many dental schools have shifted focus away from an information-heavy curriculum to a concept-based curriculum. Schools are interested instead in your ability to solve problems.
Once you shift your test-taking paradigm to match the test maker’s, you’ll find a new level of confidence and control over the test.ĭental schools do not need the DAT to evaluate your content mastery admission committees can assess your subject-area proficiency using your undergraduate coursework and grades. The test is designed to let you demonstrate your thought processes as well as your knowledge base. The DAT is not just a science test it’s also a critical thinking test. This allows scores from different tests, of potential different difficulties, to be fairly compared to one another by dental schools. In the scoring scale, a score of 17 is representative or approximately average performance. So, on the official DAT score report, you and the schools to which you are applying will receive a scaled score, which will also be in the 1-30 range.Ĭonverting your raw score into a scaled score allows each test to be calibrated for group performance and difficulty via equating procedures. This score is not the indicator of your performance that schools receive because it doesn’t reflect the relative performance of all test takers. Your raw score is simply the number of questions you answered correctly in a given section. Never let time run out on any section without filling in an answer for every question. That means you should always fill in an answer for every question whether or not you have time to fully invest in that question. All multiple-choice questions are worth the same amount-one raw point-and there’s no penalty for incorrect answers. For each section of the test, the actual number of multiple-choice questions you answer correctly per section is your raw score.
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