Kaplan PCAT Practice Test

[Apitterpatter]

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Hi everyone,

This is my first post here so I don't know if there is already a similar thread! 🙂 I took the practice exam that Kaplan provides with in their study guide book. When I finished the exam, the results only showed the scaled scores, not the percentiles so I was wondering what the scaled scores corresponded to what percentiles?

Verbal: 410
Biology: 450
Chemistry 440
Reading Comprehension: 405
Quantitative Ability: 435
Composite: 428

Thanks for any help in advance! 🙂

 

[jaymin8]

You killed it!
400 means 50%ile (according to Kaplan and the PCAT) and 430 means 90%ile (according to Kaplan). Everything in between is just guess-timates.

 

[Apitterpatter]

That's great! Are Kaplan's practice exams very similar to the real PCAT? I hope it isn't easier.

 

[jarab012]

You killed it!
400 means 50%ile (according to Kaplan and the PCAT) and 430 means 90%ile (according to Kaplan). Everything in between is just guess-timates.

How do you know the percentile conversions? I took a kaplan practice today and got a 417 composite. Does that mean 70%?

 

[jaymin8]

No. According to Kaplan's site, it states 400 is the 50% mark and ~430 is the 90% mark. On the PCAT site, it states 400 is the 50% mark. So if I got a 400 on a section I got a 50%. If I got a 430, I got a 90%. If I got 417, you have to just guess. I would compare the 417 you got with what people on the "are my scores good enough" thread to get a more accurate percentile. There is not an official PCAT scaled score to percentile that I am aware of.

 

[yuesrcegbs]

I would compare the 417 you got with what people on the "are my scores good enough" thread to get a more accurate percentile. There is not an official PCAT scaled score to percentile that I am aware of.

 

[futurepharmd15]

I just took the second practice test that is provided with Kaplan's PCAT prep book. Here are my results:
Total: 394
Verbal: 380
Biology: 390
Chemistry: 380
Reading: 420
Quant. Reasoning: 400

What is this score as a percentile? Any advice for improving my score? Less than two weeks of studying but I'm hoping to have some improvement.

 

[blueheron]

<50 unfortunately.

 

[HarshR]

+1 Blueheron

 

[midnight28]

These are the scores I received:

Verbal - 400
Biology - 435
Chemistry - 465
Reading comp. - 350 🙁
Quant - 460
Composite - 422

My verbal and reading comp. scores are super low. How should I improve them? I tried going through all the words in the Kaplan study book and doing practice passages but clearly they've been no help.

 

[kdwilhite]

I just took the first Kaplan practice exam, heres what I got:

Verbal: 405 (wtf verbal is usually my strongest)
Biology: 445
Chemistry: 450
Reading comp: 450
Quant: 470
Composite: 444

This is in 90% right? Does anyone know if this is even a little representative of what the exam will be like difficulty-wise?

 

[Mimrose]

I've taken the Kaplan PCAT Practice exam too and I take the actual PCAT 2 days from now. From what my friends have told me, they said that they felt Kaplan's was a good estimate of where you are, but not 100% accurate.
I feel like Kaplan's verbal ability section was more difficult than Pearson's practice test, but the other sections were fairly comparable.
From what I've heard and seen though, apparently QA is much more difficult on the actual than the practice tests...*gulp*.

 

[pharmkid89]

Hey all, I'm taking the PCAT in two days as well. I scored surprisngly well on the chemistry section (442), but I don't feel that my general chemistry II concepts are solid. Can anyone tell me how much they ask about Pka, Ka, Pkb, Kb, etc. on the real exam? I feel decent with everything else. We'll see though.

 

[Mimrose]

Hey all, I'm taking the PCAT in two days as well. I scored surprisngly well on the chemistry section (442), but I don't feel that my general chemistry II concepts are solid. Can anyone tell me how much they ask about Pka, Ka, Pkb, Kb, etc. on the real exam? I feel decent with everything else. We'll see though.

I definitely saw at least one to two problems with Pka on my practice tests. I don't think I've seen any Pkb or Kb...