For those of you who used Topscore

SilleAngyl · Jan 17, 2005

I will be taking the OAT on Feb. 5th. I recently starting useing the Topscore CD to practice doing some questions. I have been scoring around the 300 range for each section. For those of you who used the CD, do u feel that the general score that the Topscore CD gave you reflected your actual OAT score? I know that the actual test is scored on a bell curve so I am not sure exactly how the CD works with giving you a score. Thanks in advance for any comments!

xpothosx · Jan 17, 2005

SilleAngyl said:
I will be taking the OAT on Feb. 5th. I recently starting useing the Topscore CD to practice doing some questions. I have been scoring around the 300 range for each section. For those of you who used the CD, do u feel that the general score that the Topscore CD gave you reflected your actual OAT score? I know that the actual test is scored on a bell curve so I am not sure exactly how the CD works with giving you a score. Thanks in advance for any comments!

I think the topscore cd is a pretty good measure of how the real OAT is. Some sections are a little more difficult on the actual OAT and some sections are a little easier. I guess it depends on what test you take.

jb4teen · Jan 17, 2005

xpothosx said:
I think the topscore cd is a pretty good measure of how the real OAT is. Some sections are a little more difficult on the actual OAT and some sections are a little easier. I guess it depends on what test you take.

I also agree. Topscore does give a fairly good representation with minor fluctations on the OAT. But, if you just do certain sections at a time It is different. You need to make sure and do it just like the OAT. The quanatastive reasoning is alot harder once you have did all the other sections right before it as to just doing it by itself or first. Good Luck.

SilleAngyl · Jan 17, 2005

Thanks for the responses. I was just kind of upset that I was only scoring around 300. But, there are still more than 2 weeks to study!

xpothosx · Jan 17, 2005

SilleAngyl said:
Thanks for the responses. I was just kind of upset that I was only scoring around 300. But, there are still more than 2 weeks to study!

I remember the week before my OAT i took a full length topscore test. I scored about a 320. But when i took the real OAT, I did a lot better. 340 - AA and 360 - TS.

So, just keep cramming and take full length practice tests so you have timing down.

*****One tip that A LOT of people forget about Quantitative Reasoning. Dont get stuck on one problem for minutes. Remember, the easy and hard questions are really mixed around. If you spend a lot of time on one hard question at the beginning, you wont have time to answer the really easy questions at the end of the section. * Just to help you out! 😀 😀

Good luck studying

r_salis · Jan 17, 2005

xpothosx said:
I remember the week before my OAT i took a full length topscore test. I scored about a 320. But when i took the real OAT, I did a lot better. 340 - AA and 360 - TS.

I did better on the real thing than I did on my TopScore tests, too. I think the adrenaline makes you perform about 20 points better. 😉

I agree about the QR section, too -- it's more like a race than an exam, just hit as many as you can and you'll do fine.

:luck:

Katalio · Jan 17, 2005

In my opinion, I think the QR section in the OAT is harder than the TopScore Pro.. but other wise, I think it's a pretty good resemblance of the actual OAT! as for the scoring, I score approx 320 in the TOpscore CD. but got around 40 higher in the actuall OAT. .so I think you'll be fine definitely. =)
Keep up the good work! hehe.. QR is fun! LOL! (duh..I'm kidding)

Katalio

SilleAngyl · Jan 17, 2005

Is QR the last section on the test? I am actually counting on it to bring up my score. Math has always been a strong point and it definitely the section that I am fearing the least, now physics on the other hand.....

Katalio · Jan 18, 2005

for my OAT, yes it was the last section!
but then Im pretty sure you can do well in Physics if u can do well in Math.

Potato! · Jan 18, 2005

Hey silleangyl,

I used the Topscore CD and thought it helped a lot to study with. I agree with someone a couple of posts ago that quantitative reasoning may have been harder on the actual OAT. The QR section wasn't neccessarily hard, it just had really, really long-winded questions. All that being said, I think I scored about 40 points higher on the real thing than I did on any of the three practise tests on the TopScore. When the adrenaline gets pumping you'll be ready to go!

bigred · Jan 18, 2005

SilleAngyl said:
I will be taking the OAT on Feb. 5th. I recently starting useing the Topscore CD to practice doing some questions. I have been scoring around the 300 range for each section. For those of you who used the CD, do u feel that the general score that the Topscore CD gave you reflected your actual OAT score? I know that the actual test is scored on a bell curve so I am not sure exactly how the CD works with giving you a score. Thanks in advance for any comments!

I scored in the 200's with the Top Socre cd, which really scared me, and then I read the 1200 pg Kaplan book and took all the pre-test which I feel may have been a little over kill. My best advice is to answer the question if you know it and guess immediately if you don't. Time management is most of what I learned taking all those practice test. I felt the actual test was mostly concepts and not the overly complicated tricky problems. I scored a 350 overall and a 380 total science. I always run out of time with reading comprehension questions so my advice is to find the two passages with the most questions and answer them first and if you run out you will be guessing on as few as possible. If you don't score well in Feb. buy someone's old Kaplan study materials off ebay. The classroom part is a waste of time as long as you are reading the books and taking the practice tests.

lnguyen · Feb 13, 2005

I did alot better on the actual OAT than on topscore. I was freaking out when I received my final scores from topscore. I think I was getting about 320-330 and I wanted to do alot better since I took the OAT last year with a AA 340. I ended up getting a AA 360 and TS 380 on the actual test.

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