This book has great suggestions on how to prepare for the DAT, and it can help you increase your self-discipline if you decide to not go with at standard DAT preparation course. It doesn't, however, have any summaries of important facts for the science section. The PAT section of the practice test they give you is shortened and it has several wrong answers. You can go ahead and buy it if it makes you feel any more secure about your approaching test, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I do not recomend this book one bit!, it is full of mistakes and the explantions for the answers are not there. All the sections contain serious error and the phrasing of some questions is vague to say the least. The answers provided for most of the questions is wrong!, and that applies for the science section as well as the math and perceptual ability sections. You are better off taking the test without prepartion than taking it studying for it with this book.

There's very good examples and review on the quantative analysis part of the exam. But if you're hoping to review over the biology part of the exam, you're not to worry about this book. It only gives you an outline on the natural science part of the test. You can even get the outline from the DAT application booklet. This book does have some full length mock DAT tests though.

My dental school counselor recommended Williams and Wilkins very highly. I have friends who have used this same guide for their MCAT's and they thought it was very thorough also. As for my own experience, I think this 2001 edition is very similar to the older ones, so you could save a few bucks by getting the 2000 edition, if you're a little parsimonious. Otherwise, you can't beat 29 bucks for a 235 page guide. My only complaint is they could have included more practice. I know the MCAT version has more practice. Overall, I really like the book and am still going through it slowly. It is well organized and help you organize your time and notes for studying for the DAT.