Poll: Score Difference between CDP & Real PAT

so i did the ten test CDP, only did 8-9 of them though. started out getting 17-18's, ended up getting 21-22 on the last few. got 21 on the real thing. i thought it was really good practice, especially since it is on the computer.

I think I will bump this thread a few times
It worked great for the Topscore vs Real DAT. Might as well vote people

Was getting 19-20 on cdp, got 27 on the real thing.

Zubnaya Feya said:

Was getting 19-20 on cdp, got 27 on the real thing.

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Wow...should I vote a 3+ to make yours closer?

I got a 22 on CDP and 21 on actual exam for PAT. I only used CDP once for a full PAT section and then i played around with it once or twice more i my buddies pc. I would sayd +/-1 from the real exam.

bumppppp

bump

It is strange that I am the only one who thought that the real thing was much easier than CDP... I might've gotten an easy test version or something

You need to bump this more...check out the Topscore vs Real DAT. I bumped it about 20 times hahaha

doc3232 said:

You need to bump this more...check out the Topscore vs Real DAT. I bumped it about 20 times hahaha

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where is this thread?

sushi, search topscore. It should come up.
if that doesn't work, try topscore vs dat

Comparing the average CDP score to the DAT is unfair because I started out getting really poor grades on CDP and gradually improved. By the time I took my last CDP test actual DAT grade was only .66 higher than the average of my last three CDP. However in total my DAT grade was like 3 points higher than my CDP.

Let me explain something: When someone takes one of the easy tests, they assume it is their actual score when it isn't.
Your real score is based on the hard and medium difficulty ones.

I went up about 2-3 points by the last few tests not including the easy ones.

adizzle87 said:

for those who took it recently, please partake. thanks

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19/18/19/20/25/23/22/didn't do the last 3

Got a 23.

Idk which one to mark for the poll.

62.51 % same or -1. interesting.

I just took the DAT yesterday, here's how my scores compare:

21/21/23/22/23/25/21/23 Actual: 24

(Keep in mind that I didn't keep time constraints on the first 3 tests. I think it took me close to 2-2.5 hrs to go through the first test and come up with strategies. So obviously, my scores would have been much worse. Also, I didn't take the last 2 PAT tests.)

I highly recommend the CDP PAT. I had no idea what I was doing when I first looked at the PAT.

BuMP!

doc3232 said:

Let me explain something: When someone takes one of the easy tests, they assume it is their actual score when it isn't.
Your real score is based on the hard and medium difficulty ones.

I went up about 2-3 points by the last few tests not including the easy ones.

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Which CDP tests are the EZ ones?

According to one of the CDP phone operators, based on the feedback they have been getting- close to 80% of the users score within +/- 1 point of the score they get on test 6. So they feel that test 6 is the best predictor and closest in difficulty to the actual PAT score!

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i did 7 tests on CDP.
on tests 1-4 i got 22. 5-7 i got 23 (including one the night before the actual test). 28 on the real thing.

CDP is really annoying becuase on the tests with the illusion cube counting, i would get those wrong and it would bring my score down from what it could really be. i really dunno why they even put those in since there aren't any illusion cubes like that on the real thing.