DAT Booster Review

Outline: DAT Booster Prep Review

• DAT Booster Price
• How DAT Booster Works & Features You Get
• DAT Booster Strengths 📈
• DAT Booster Weaknesses 📉
• Verdict: Is DAT Booster Worth It?

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In early 2025, our team had a chance to reevaluate a number of DAT prep products and study materials to see how they stack up against one another. Below you’ll find our updated opinions regarding the prep course from DAT Booster.

DAT Booster Price

Let’s start this review by quickly discussing cost, as that’s an important factor in choosing a DAT prep course. DAT Booster has two course offerings. Their premium membership costs $399, is good for 90 days, and gives you access to most of DAT Booster’s materials.

Then, their premium membership max costs $699, is good for 180 days, and gives you access to all of DAT Booster’s materials.

Putting that in perspective, Booster is cheaper than just about every other DAT prep provider on the market, except perhaps DAT Cracker.

When stacked up against other full prep courses, Booster costs hundreds less than Kaplan and Princeton Review, but is in the same general ballpark as their biggest competitor, DAT Bootcamp (which our team rates out slightly higher).

How DAT Booster Works & Features You Get

Now, on to the good stuff—let’s run down how this course works. From a high-level point of view in terms of organization, DAT Booster is sort of a massive library of study materials. You’ve got study notes and cheat sheets, content-based video lessons, practice questions, video problem solutions, full-length tests, flashcards, and a few other features.

In terms of structure, generally speaking, it’s all grouped by DAT subject: Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Perceptual Ability, Reading Comprehension, and Quantitative Reasoning.

Most everything is grouped into these subject-based modules, and you access your study tools and materials under each subject tab along the left hand side of the dashboard.

Without any clear guidance as to how to attack your studies, this would give it a sort of unstructured feel, as all the materials are just bucketed by subject; however, overarching everything in the course is the study schedule.

DAT Booster has created a 10-week study schedule that guides you through all the study materials in a very particular order. For reference, there are 8- and 12-week schedules as well, but the 10-week plan is the recommended approach.

In any event, the schedule gives a checklist of exactly what you need to complete everyday, right down to the last task.

In essence, you follow this checklist-style study schedule and work your way through all of the materials in the course—video lessons, practice sets, etc. An average day can take anywhere from 4 to 8 hours depending on how fast you study, what topic is being covered, and honestly, just how how far you want to take your studying that day.

And that’s about it for the high level overview. You take it day-by-day and work your way through all of the various resources in the course, just following the calendar along the way, reading cheat sheets, watching videos, and knocking out tons of practice work.

DAT Booster Strengths

Now that I’ve covered how the DAT Booster course is set up and what it comes with, let’s get to my thoughts—the pros and cons. I’m going to give you a few things that I really like about DAT Booster, as well as a few things I also wasn’t crazy about. Let’s start with the positives.

Multiple Approaches to Instruction

My first highlight is how Booster accommodates different learner types. Whether you’re a visual learner, do best with reading, or you’re one of those “learn by doing” type people, they have everyone covered. It’s not one-size-fits-all approach.

For example, if you’re looking at organic chemistry, you can read their study notes, watch video lessons, work flashcards, or hammer the question bank. It’s really nice how they offer different teaching styles for different learners.

Plus, even if you don’t fall exclusively into one bucket, it’s even better, as you can learn the material from different angles. In my opinion, the greater the variety of perspectives you get on material, the better you’ll understand it.

That being said, I would just note that this diverse learning approach is not exclusive to DAT Booster. The courses from Kaplan and DAT Bootcamp cater to different types of learning styles as well. 

Realistic Practice Problems

The second strength here is the practice work. When it comes to DAT practice problems and tests, DAT Booster does a pretty good job.

For one, they offer a ton of practice work, with close to 9,000 practice problems and 80 practice tests. However, it’s not just the quantity. The realism is solid too.

This is important, as practicing under exam like conditions is hugely important, and Booster does a pretty good job mimicking the real exam.

However, as long as we’re on the topic of practice material quantity, it’s worth mentioning that DAT Bootcamp actually offers more practice questions than DAT Booster, and the quality of their practice work is top-notch as well.

PAT Expertise

Another major highlight is the PAT Generator. In case you didn’t know, DAT Booster was originally PAT Booster. The PAT was literally all they focused on at the beginning.

Obviously, they’ve since expanded into full DAT prep, but because this was their original specialty, their institutional expertise is clearly the PAT and everything that comes along with it. Booster provides a really good PAT generator tool and analyzer.

With their generator, you can create as many problems as you want, broken down however you want by filters. Not to mention, they give you a cool analyzer tool as well, which provides feedback on where you need work.

And for the record, competitor DAT Bootcamp offers a helpful PAT generator as well. Our team really like their tool too if you’re considering their course.

Lastly, Booster’s 3D review tool is helpful and a lot of their video content centers around PAT. So if PAT is a weak area for you (or think it might be), this is definitely something to think about.

Cool New Gamification Aspect

One cool aspect of the DAT Booster course is how they have sort of gamified the learning experience. Within the program, outside of the main coursework, you can compete in learning-based games against other users.

Not only are the games kind of fun, and I liked the competition aspect, but you can also win prizes. The prizes tend to include more boring things, like the ability pause or extend your membership, but it’s nonetheless fun and has a financial aspect to it.

DAT Booster Weaknesses

Having covered what I like, now let’s get to the things I don’t necessarily like. In other words, the negatives.

Slightly Disjointed Feel

The first downside of this program is that while the course overall has a very clean and streamlined feel (the online program is super sleek), it’s also a little disjointed.

For one, your course schedule is a separate PDF from the portal. It’s not directly integrated into the dashboard.

Moreover, to be honest, the videos are pretty good, but they’re also kind of a pain. For whatever video lesson you’re assigned to watch in your study schedule, you have to separately hunt it down in the classroom portal.

I’d personally like to see them produce more own in-house video lessons (love the videos, but need more) and integrate everything into the online portal. It would be much cleaner and simpler that way.

Volume Of Practice Work

While DAT Booster provides more practice questions than most of their competitors and delivers high-quality, realistic practice materials, it doesn’t quite measure up to what DAT Bootcamp offers.

If you’re a practice-oriented learner who thrives on working through extensive practice sets and you plan to make practice questions the core of your study strategy, DAT Bootcamp may be a better choice considering that they offer over 11,000 practice questions in total.

No Hardcopy Study Materials

My other complaint is that there aren’t any hardcopy (i.e., printed) prep books, study notes or cheat sheets with this course. Everything is digital and accessible through the online portal.

I think it’s cool to save trees, but I do think there is a benefit to printed materials. You can highlight key points, haul your notes to places where a laptop isn’t practical, and drop in post-it notes if you want.

Maybe I’m old school, but I’d like to see DAT Booster roll all their text-based materials, like study notes, cheat sheets, and even flashcards into print form.

Verdict: Is DAT Booster Worth It?

All in all, I think DAT Booster is a pretty good choice to help you prepare for the DAT. Their study schedule gives you guidance on what to study and when; their practice problems are realistic of what you’ll see on test day; and their video lessons and written study notes are pretty helpful.

With that said, I do have a couple gripes with their course, and I do think there are more effective prep options out there overall. For example, our team rates DAT Bootcamp ahead of Booster. Therefore, considering that both courses cost under $550, our team recommends DAT Bootcamp.

Alternatively, if you are the type of student who needs or wants live instruction, be sure to check out the DAT course from Kaplan. They offer some stellar live DAT classes with engaging, expert instructors.