Question about how the DAT is scored

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I've ask this in the DAT forum and received no responses so thought I would try here.

I've heard that the pdf file you can find on the ADA website is outdated and that makes sense. I saw someone post their scores up recently and according to that "estimate your score" pdf they received at minimum 81 questions correct out of the 100 for science, but their total science was only a 19 which has a range of 76-80 correct answers. So he/she should have gotten a 20 according to that chart. So does anybody know a more updated version of how the test is converted to our scores?

Originally Posted by chill45

I've ask this in the DAT forum and received no responses so thought I would try here.

I've heard that the pdf file you can find on the ADA website is outdated and that makes sense. I saw someone post their scores up recently and according to that "estimate your score" pdf they received at minimum 81 questions correct out of the 100 for science, but their total science was only a 19 which has a range of 76-80 correct answers. So he/she should have gotten a 20 according to that chart. So does anybody know a more updated version of how the test is converted to our scores?

That estimate your score sheet is what it is, an estimate of what your score is.

Every test version is scored differently, depending on how easy the questions are. If the questions are easier, the test is scored harder, and vice versa.

How did you get this minimum of 81 questions correct conclusion?

Based on his scores he gave for bio/gchem/orgo I just matched them up with that sheet to find the minimum in each section he had to get right. Kind of strange they are all scored differently. Seems like too many variables to be able to know the difficulty of a question like that. O well, thanks for the reply.