Confusion

[cys19]

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This may be a dumb question. predents.com has PAT and DAT separated. I always thought PAT was just a section of the DAT exam. Am I wrong? Or is the PAT more important than the rest, so predents.com just decided to post it on each school's page alongside their average accepted DAT scores?

 

[checkamundo]

This may be a dumb question. predents.com has PAT and DAT separated. I always thought PAT was just a section of the DAT exam. Am I wrong? Or is the PAT more important than the rest, so predents.com just decided to post it on each school's page alongside their average accepted DAT scores?

PAT is just one of the sections of the DAT. The DAT has Bio, GenChem, Organic, PAT, Reading, and Math sections. The 3 main scores that schools look at is an Academic Average (AA), which is an average of all of the individual scores except the PAT; the Total Science (TS), which is a scaled score of the 3 science sections; and schools look at the PAT. The schools do look at each of the individual scores though.

 

[checkamundo]

PAT is just one of the sections of the DAT. The DAT has Bio, GenChem, Organic, PAT, Reading, and Math sections. The 3 main scores that schools look at is an Academic Average (AA), which is an average of all of the individual scores except the PAT; the Total Science (TS), which is a scaled score of the 3 science sections; and schools look at the PAT. The schools do look at each of the individual scores though.

Also, some schools may think the PAT is more important than other sections, but each school is different, and you should aim to do well on each section equally.