Princeton Review DAT Cost: What You Get at That Price

Princeton Review's DAT pricing changes often enough that any number we quote here would be stale by the time you read it — check their site for the current figure. What we can tell you, having gone through this exact decision ourselves, is what to actually check before you pay: how many full-length DAT-formatted practice tests you get, not just whether the brand name sounds familiar.

Princeton Review is a large, established test-prep company that covers the DAT, MCAT, LSAT, GRE, and more. The DAT is one product line among many, not the singular focus. That matters more than the price tag once you understand how DAT scores are actually built.

What does Princeton Review's DAT prep actually cost?

We're not going to invent a number. Princeton Review's DAT package pricing is set by them, changes periodically, and can differ by promotion, package tier, or timing. The only reliable source is their own course page at the time you're shopping.

What we will say: don't evaluate the price in isolation. A course that costs less but gives you five full-length tests can end up more expensive per test than one that costs more but gives you forty. Cost per unit of real practice is the number that predicts your score, not the sticker price.

What you get for the Princeton Review DAT price

Princeton Review packages typically bundle some combination of instruction, a question bank, and practice materials, similar to how most test-prep companies structure their offerings. Because Princeton Review serves many exams, its DAT-specific content sits inside a broader platform built to flex across tests.

That's a legitimate approach and it works for some students, especially if you like structured video lessons or want a name you've already heard of from a friend who used it for the MCAT. But it also means the DAT slice of the product is, by definition, smaller than what you'd get from a company that builds nothing but DAT prep. Confirm exactly what's included — full-length test count, question bank size, and subject breakdown — directly on their current course page, since those details change.

Why a smaller, less DAT-focused course changes the math

The DAT is a standardized test. That single fact should drive every purchasing decision you make. Standardized means the format, timing, and question style repeat predictably every administration — which means the single highest-leverage thing you can buy is realistic, high-volume practice under real conditions, not more explanation of concepts you already sort of know.

A multi-exam platform has to spread its resources across the MCAT, LSAT, GRE, and DAT. A DAT-only platform spends everything it has on one exam. That structural difference shows up directly in how many full-length, DAT-formatted practice tests you get for your money, which is the resource that moves your score more than any other single input.

Obvious disclosure: we built DATPractice, so read the rest of this with that in mind. Here's our honest reasoning anyway, because the logic holds regardless of which product you end up choosing.

How to calculate real cost per practice test

Whatever platform you're comparing, run this math before you pay:

1. Find the total price of the package on the company's current site.
2. Find the number of genuine full-length, DAT-formatted practice tests included — not question sets, not "mini quizzes."
3. Divide price by test count. That's your real cost per full-length rep.
4. Repeat for every product you're considering, including free resources you haven't tried yet.

You'll usually find that a course built around many exams gives you a higher cost per DAT-specific full-length test than a course built around the DAT alone, simply because the DAT content has to share development resources with everything else the company sells. Our cheapest and best-value DAT prep breakdown walks through this same math across several named platforms if you want the fuller comparison.

Is Princeton Review worth it for the DAT?

For some students, yes. If you already have other Princeton Review products, like their credit for a different exam, or you specifically want video-based instruction and a familiar brand, it can be a reasonable piece of a broader study plan.

Our honest take, as people who scored a 25 AA with a 30 in organic chemistry and a 27 AA with a 29 TS on the old scale and are now at the top-ranked dental school in the world: we didn't get there from lectures or brand recognition. We got there from repeated, realistic full-length practice under real timing, with immediate correction of every miss. That's the resource we'd tell any friend to prioritize when comparing DAT cost across platforms, regardless of which company they end up choosing.

Before paying for any paid course, also exhaust what's free. Our free DAT prep resources guide covers trials and free materials worth trying first so you know exactly what gap a paid product needs to fill.

What we'd actually check before paying

• Current price and package tiers, confirmed on the company's own site the day you buy.
• The exact number of full-length, DAT-formatted practice tests included.
• Whether the question bank has full explanations for every answer choice, not just the correct one.
• Whether refunds, guarantees, or score-improvement claims are spelled out in writing, and what the actual conditions are.
• Whether the platform is built around the DAT specifically or spread across several exams.

The DAT rewards consistent, correctly-scored practice more than it rewards any particular brand name. Whatever you choose, spend your money on volume of realistic full-length tests first, and treat everything else as secondary.