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Just A Question:

Has Anyone Ever Made 350 Or Below On The Pcat In Any Sections?

Just Curious Because The Range Is 200 - 600 I Think But Everyone Always Makes Like A 400+

So Do People Really Make 350 Or Below? And Do They Get Accepted?
 
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A 350 results in a score way below the 50th percentile.

Since many schools look only at the composite, one can get in with such a low score assuming that a school doesn't require section minimums and if the rest of the scores boost your composite to an acceptable level.

Now, a 350 composite probably won't get you in unless you have connections.🙂
 
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i took pcat the first time in 2005 just to see how it was..didn't study anything
and my lowest score was on verbal 366 had no clue what i was doing during the exam...composite of 386 (24th percentile)
if you want a good percentile score in a section then you have to be over 400
thats for sure...the higher you get from 400 the higher your percentile gets...nobody scores above 500 may be some highly intelligent students..
 
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I don't know how over a 500 is even possible. There are 40 questions in each section that are counted, right? And there is a scaled range of 400 points, so it would seem that each question is worth 10 points. However, this clearly is not right, as I've seen people with scores a point or two away from mine. And, for example, I got a 447 on the verbal section, and that was the 96th percentile. So only 3% of people did better than me on that section, but it's a 153 point range for that 3%? How does that make sense? I know that these scores are scaled, not raw, so getting 400 doesn't mean you got half right. But still, I don't really know why the range is so wide when I haven't seen anyone get even close to below 300 or above 500. Did anyone get in the 99th percentile on a subject? Can you please tell me what your scaled score is? I am really curious what scaled score you get if you get no answers wrong, only one wrong, etc.
 
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AngelaCL said:
I don't know how over a 500 is even possible. There are 40 questions in each section that are counted, right? And there is a scaled range of 400 points, so it would seem that each question is worth 10 points. However, this clearly is not right, as I've seen people with scores a point or two away from mine. And, for example, I got a 447 on the verbal section, and that was the 96th percentile. So only 3% of people did better than me on that section, but it's a 153 point range for that 3%? How does that make sense? I know that these scores are scaled, not raw, so getting 400 doesn't mean you got half right. But still, I don't really know why the range is so wide when I haven't seen anyone get even close to below 300 or above 500. Did anyone get in the 99th percentile on a subject? Can you please tell me what your scaled score is? I am really curious what scaled score you get if you get no answers wrong, only one wrong, etc.
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My chemistry scaled score was 501, so yeah it is possible. But I'm not entirely sure how they calculate the scaled scores, and I *know* I did not get all the questions correct. Someone out there must have a 502, maybe a 510.
 
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AngelaCL the pcat scale is between 200-600 so why it is not possible to get a score of 500...which is also equivalent as getting a score of 300 on a scale of 0-400...
 
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My point is just that there is a 400 point range for only 40 questions. And you can be in the 96th percentile with a 447/600, which means that only 3% of people got between 448-600. That just seems weird to me. Parabolic got a 501, but I'm guessing he got in the 99th percentile. So maybe 1% of people got between 502-600. It just seems like a really broad range for 40 questions, and I wish we could know raw scores. It might be something like

580-600 - perfect score, scaled score varies due to test difficulty
570-580 - 39/40
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200 - 0/40, missed every question
 
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AngelaCL said:
My point is just that there is a 400 point range for only 40 questions. And you can be in the 96th percentile with a 447/600, which means that only 3% of people got between 448-600. That just seems weird to me. Parabolic got a 501, but I'm guessing he got in the 99th percentile. So maybe 1% of people got between 502-600. It just seems like a really broad range for 40 questions, and I wish we could know raw scores. It might be something like

580-600 - perfect score, scaled score varies due to test difficulty
570-580 - 39/40
...
200 - 0/40, missed every question
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you are so correct...harcourt should explain how they compute the raw scores...if they can't then everybody should have the same test(they can have different order of questions)
 
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