Mometrix DAT Flashcard Study System Review

Mometrix sells the DAT Flashcard Study System as a printed deck for $53.99, marked down from a $89.99 list price. It is worth the money only if you specifically want physical cards, and only as a supplement, because Mometrix names no Perceptual Ability content anywhere on either page it sells the deck from and will not say how many cards are in the box.

We read both of those pages on 17 September 2026, along with the Mometrix store refund policy, and checked the topic lists against what the ADA actually scores. This review is what that comparison turned up.

Summary Table

The DAT Flashcard Study System listing on store.mometrix.com, captured September 2026. The $89.99 price is struck through and labelled Sale.

Mometrix DAT flashcards overview

This is one product sold from two places. The Shopify store carries the current listing. An older Mometrix-run order page at Flashcard Secrets sells the same deck at the same two prices, and it is the more detailed of the two: it was last updated on 14 September 2026 and it is the only page that describes the cards as objects.

What Mometrix says you get:

• A printed deck of DAT flashcards, 3.67 by 4.25 inches, on 67 lb cover stock, laser printed at 1200 dpi with a micro-perforated edge
• Online access to DAT practice test questions with worked answer explanations
• Mometrix Academy video codes that link concepts on the cards to video tutorials
• A special report on the Leitner Method, the manual system for spacing flashcard reviews
• Three more reports on study skills, math anxiety and test anxiety

The physical specification is not marketing filler. Cover stock at that weight and a perforated edge are the difference between a deck that survives three months of daily handling and one that curls. If you have ever worn out a set of index cards, this is the part of the product that is genuinely better than what you would make yourself.

What Mometrix does not say is how many cards there are. The store listing does not give a number. The Flashcard Secrets page says the deck holds "hundreds of concepts" and leaves it there. No edition, no revision date, no sample card beyond the box art. For $53.99 you are agreeing to a quantity that neither page discloses, which is unusual even in test prep.

Mometrix DAT flashcards review for 2026

The deck stops exactly where the Academic Average stops

Between them, the two Mometrix pages list the topics the deck covers in detail: reading comprehension strategy, quantitative reasoning, biology and organic chemistry under a "Biological Sciences" heading, and general chemistry under "Physical Science". Add those up and they come to the five areas the ADA averages into your Academic Average. The ADA is explicit that the Academic Average is the rounded average of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, quantitative reasoning and reading comprehension, and that it excludes the Perceptual Ability score.

Which is the problem. The PAT is reported to dental schools as its own number, and neither Mometrix page names a single PAT topic: no apertures, no view recognition, no angle discrimination, no paper folding, no cube counting, no spatial relations.

What the Mometrix deck covers, against the areas the ADA scores separately. Section means are the ADA's own figures for the 2025 administrations.

There is an argument that this is fine. The PAT is a visual reasoning test, and flashcards are a poor tool for it: you cannot put a rotating solid on a card in a way that trains the skill. A deck that stays out of the PAT is being honest about what cards can do. The counter-argument is that Mometrix never makes that argument. It sells this as the deck for the DAT without once telling you which of your scores it will not touch. Work it out yourself, or find out in March.

Either way, the practical consequence is the same: budget for a separate PAT resource. Our guide to the Perceptual Ability Test covers the six question types, and the free PAT practice tool will tell you in twenty minutes whether you need more than that.

A small note on how Mometrix groups the sciences

The store page files organic chemistry under "Biological Sciences" and general chemistry alone under "Physical Science". The ADA does not group them that way. Biology, general chemistry and organic chemistry all sit inside the Survey of the Natural Sciences and are averaged together into your Total Science score.

The cards themselves do not care, and the Flashcard Secrets page lists the same topics under cleaner headings: biology, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and quantitative. But if you are building a study plan from the store page's section names, you will be mapping them onto a score report that is organised differently. It is a small thing that says something larger about how closely these pages are maintained.

Against free Anki, the value case is thin

The honest comparison for any paid DAT flashcard product is not another paid deck. It is the free community Anki decks that dominate DAT prep, and the search results for DAT flashcards make that obvious: the first page is Reddit threads, a Student Doctor Network thread, Facebook group posts and two prep companies publishing Anki workflows.

Those decks publish their card counts. They cost nothing. They run on an algorithm that schedules every card for you, which is the thing paper physically cannot do. Mometrix knows this, which is why it ships a report on the Leitner Method, the shoebox system that approximates spaced repetition by hand. It works, but it is a manual version of something free software does better, and it only works if you actually keep the boxes going.

Paper still wins on three things, and they are real. It keeps you off a screen, which matters more than it sounds like when you are eight hours into a study day. It is trivially shareable: someone who knows nothing about the DAT can quiz you from the cards. And a physical deck has an end. Working through a box gives you a sense of progress that an Anki queue, which refills itself forever, never does.

If none of those three things describes you, the free decks are the better buy, and our review of the free Quizlet DAT sets and the community-made Feralis biology notes is where to start instead.

The return policy is the best thing about this product

The Mometrix refund policy states that physical products can be returned up to one year after the purchase date, digital products within seven days, for any reason, with refunds arranged by email. The Flashcard Secrets page calls it a no-questions-asked one-year money-back guarantee.

One year is longer than the DAT prep cycle for most applicants. In practice it means you can buy the deck, use it for a full study block, sit the exam, and still return it. No other paid DAT resource we list states an unconditional return window that long; the rest are score guarantees with conditions attached. It does not fix the card count problem, but it does move the risk almost entirely onto Mometrix, and that is worth saying plainly.

Pricing

One purchase, no subscription, nothing to cancel.

Both Mometrix pages agree on the money and disagree on the shipping. The store product page says shipping is calculated at checkout; the Flashcard Secrets order page says shipping is free. That gap is worth a few dollars, so put the deck in the cart from whichever page you land on and read the shipping line before you confirm. The store also offers four interest-free instalments through Shop Pay, which on a $53.99 order works out at about $13.50 each.

The $89.99 figure deserves a word. It appears struck through on both pages, and the Flashcard Secrets page carries the same "available today for only $53.99" line on a page stamped 14 September 2026. Treat $53.99 as the price and $89.99 as a reference number, not as a discount that is about to expire.

Per card, we cannot tell you what that buys, because Mometrix does not publish the count. That is the whole pricing analysis, and it is not a small gap: a deck of 300 cards and a deck of 900 cards at the same price are different products.

Who Mometrix DAT flashcards are best for

• Students who want off the screen. If your content review has been entirely digital and you are burning out on it, a physical deck is a genuinely different study mode, not just the same thing on paper.
• Anyone studying with a partner or a family member. The cards are self-contained with full explanations on the back, so whoever is quizzing you does not need to know any dental science.
• Students who have already sorted the PAT. If you are running DAT Booster's PAT generators or an equivalent, the gap in this deck costs you nothing.
• Buyers who want the option to change their mind. A year to return a physical product for a full refund is close to a free trial with an unusually long fuse.

When you might look elsewhere

You need the PAT covered. No Mometrix page names a PAT topic. Start at the DAT PAT resources we review and treat the PAT as its own project.

You want the most cards per dollar. The free Anki decks and the sets on our DAT flashcards listing publish their counts and cost nothing. The trade is that you get community quality control rather than an editor, and a screen rather than paper.

You want to drill questions, not recall facts. Cards check what you already half know. For a large pool of exam-style questions covering all four sections, the Gold Standard DAT question bank is the cheapest broad option we have reviewed.

You want Mometrix's actual content review. The deck is a drilling tool, not a teaching one. Mometrix DAT Secrets, the study guide from the same publisher, is the product that explains things, and it is a better first purchase if you have gaps rather than recall problems.

You want free high-yield notes first. DAT Bootcamp's biology notes cost nothing and cover more biology than any flashcard deck can. Read those, then decide what you still need to drill.

Final verdict

Mometrix made a good physical object and wrote weak pages around it. The cards are properly printed, the bundled practice questions and video codes are real additions, and the one-year return policy is the most generous we have seen on a paid DAT product. Against that: no card count on either page, no edition, no sample, two pages that disagree about shipping, and not one Perceptual Ability topic in a deck sold for a test that scores the PAT separately.

At $53.99 it earns 2.9 out of 5. That score is about what Mometrix discloses rather than what it prints. You can see how we arrive at a number on our review methodology page.

Buy it if you want paper, you have a PAT plan, and the return window makes the risk acceptable. Otherwise start with the free decks, spend the $53.99 on a resource that moves your Academic Average, and come back to cards only if drilling turns out to be what you are missing. Everything else we list for the DAT is on the DAT hub.

Mometrix DAT flashcards FAQs

How many cards are in the Mometrix DAT Flashcard Study System?

Mometrix does not say. The store listing gives no number and the Flashcard Secrets order page describes the deck only as "hundreds of concepts". Neither page states an edition or a revision date either, so there is no way to confirm the size or the age of the deck before it arrives.

Do Mometrix DAT flashcards cover the Perceptual Ability Test?

No. Neither Mometrix page names a single PAT topic, and the topic lists cover only the five areas that make up the Academic Average. The PAT is reported to dental schools as its own score, so you will need a separate resource for it.

How much do Mometrix DAT flashcards cost?

$53.99 as of 17 September 2026, against a $89.99 list price shown struck through on both Mometrix pages. It is a one-time purchase with nothing to renew. The store page says shipping is calculated at checkout, while the Flashcard Secrets order page says shipping is free.

Can I return Mometrix flashcards if they do not help?

Yes. The Mometrix refund policy allows physical products to be returned for a full refund of the product price up to one year after the purchase date, for any reason, by emailing Mometrix support. Digital products have a seven-day window instead.

Are the Mometrix cards better than free DAT Anki decks?

Only on format. The free community decks publish their card counts, cost nothing and schedule your reviews automatically, which paper cannot do. The Mometrix deck wins if you want to study away from a screen, want someone else to be able to quiz you, or want a finite set you can finish.

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