3 kinds of dat tests?

[albodent]

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My friend works for Kaplan and he mentioned today that there are 3 kinds of tests, easy, average and difficult. When you sent in your scores to the individual schools he said, there is a number that follows them to show the difficulty of the test and your performance. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[Clubby]

Eh, while that would be nice, I don't think that's the case.

 

[doc toothache]

My friend works for Kaplan and he mentioned today that there are 3 kinds of tests, easy, average and difficult. When you sent in your scores to the individual schools he said, there is a number that follows them to show the difficulty of the test and your performance. Can anyone confirm this?

Is this the same guy that offered to sell oceanside property in AZ?

 

[jdoc04]

ada states there are 4 versions of the exam. what would be the point of having different levels of difficulty??? not the case.

 

[jdoc04]

Is this the same guy that offered to sell oceanside property in AZ?

LOL

 

[old-school]

There are 3 different difficulty types of q's, but unfortunately there all on the same test

 

[albodent]

good...because im sure that I would get the hard one!

 

[Bizznet]

ada states there are 4 versions of the exam. what would be the point of having different levels of difficulty??? not the case.

Where do they state this?

 

[dddoch]

false rumor

 

[old-school]

It's on the ada website about the dat. They study the questions based on amount right or wrong in the past, and put an assortment of them on the test. It's designed so a portion are easy, hard, and really hard. That has led to the speculation that the DAT is "evolving" into a harder test. Of course I'm sure there are more people taking it, so hopefully it will even out. If you look into it, it's actually a nasty little test set-up (statistically speaking). That's why its so hard to break away from the average on it.

 

[dddoch]

It's on the ada website about the dat. They study the questions based on amount right or wrong in the past, and put an assortment of them on the test. It's designed so a portion are easy, hard, and really hard. That has led to the speculation that the DAT is "evolving" into a harder test. Of course I'm sure there are more people taking it, so hopefully it will even out. If you look into it, it's actually a nasty little test set-up (statistically speaking). That's why its so hard to break away from the average on it.

any links?

 

[z3u2]

It's on the ada website about the dat. They study the questions based on amount right or wrong in the past, and put an assortment of them on the test. It's designed so a portion are easy, hard, and really hard.

yes i think i've read this before
but my understanding from seeing it is all versions of tests will have approx the same number of easy/difficult questions. So overall, every tests are about the same level of difficulty.

 

[xdianaax]

It has to be about the same difficult or else it wouldn't be standardized.

 

[blasterx]

It has to be about the same difficult or else it wouldn't be standardized.

I don't think standardization has to do with how easy or difficult a test is. It has to do with an average and how well a person does relative to that average.

 

[biocmp]

some people shouldn't be allowed to think... 🙂

 

[xdianaax]

A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent"

That's according to wikipedia, thanks. For the above poster, people who jump to conclusions shouldn't be able to think.

 

[old-school]

It's on the web somewhere, just google it. Like some of the PAT are "test" q's that aren't counted. I was breaking down the DAT, but I'm too busy studying for it now to play around.

 

[xdianaax]

Just for reference, I wasn't trying to be mean or sarcastic I just wanted to back up what I said before. 🙂

 

[blasterx]

A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent"

That's according to wikipedia, thanks. For the above poster, people who jump to conclusions shouldn't be able to think.

Congratulations, you know the definition of a standardized test. Now use your link and scroll down to where it mentions a norm-referenced test. 👍

 

[doc toothache]

ada states there are 4 versions of the exam. what would be the point of having different levels of difficulty??? not the case.

Are you sure you are not confusing the number of versions with the number of tests (four: Survey of Nat. Sci., PA, RC and QR) ?

 

[albodent]

Ill ask him again tomorrow and let you guys know. Im sure he said there were 3 difficulty rated tests though.

 

[doc toothache]

Ill ask him again tomorrow and let you guys know. Im sure he said there were 3 difficulty rated tests though.

When is tomorrow going to get here?

 

[Ocean5]

I heard that too. If you take an easy test or hard one they have a way of knowing it.

 

[Bizznet]

Do you believe that there are actual versions of the exam (meaning all the sections will be exactly the same together) ... or that they mix and match sections?

 

[Bizznet]

anybody have any thoughts?

 

[jimmy1fernan]

never heard that b4. a friend of mine used to work for kaplan teaching the mcats but he never heard of this. if you know let me know

 

[albodent]

not sure where the guy went. think he moved to gainesville for start of d school.

Must not be true since no-one heard about it.