Breadth of questions on sample OAT versus actual OAT

[EyeCanHelp]

Roughly a month to go before my test, I'm going through the practice OAT exam from ADA. As I'm going through the sample test it seems that the questions are fairly general. For example, under the chemistry section, a lot of the questions consists mostly of understanding the concepts rather than calculations. There are a few calculations but you can even reason out the question and omit obvious wrong answers without having to calculate anything.

In regards the quantitative reasoning portion, it really is just "reasoning" and being able to understand the equations (i.e. manipulating variables) rather than a ton of calculations, right? I know the practice test states that there is no calculator but this was produced back in 2006, and calculators are now implemented into the computers.

Thanks for the help in advance!

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[jonmfong]

It's about the same but the QR has a ton of word problems where you have to set up your own equations. Physics and gchem had a lot of conceptual question like on the ADA one.