DAT score dilemma

[MSUstudent]

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I took the dat and my scores are

PA: 27
QR: 18
RC: 19
BIO: 20
GC: 24
OC: 21

TS:21
AA:20

compared to a fellow SDNer (jewelstar)

PA 19 (73.7%)
QR 17 (65.7%)
RC 21 (84.5%)
Bio 20 (87%)
GC 23 (95%)
OC 21 (87.6%)

TS 22 (96%)
AA 20 (87.1%)


We have the same bio and oc score but my gc is higher so should my TS score be higher than a 21? I am not trying to bring other people's scores down, I am just a little confused. I do not know if I am missing something or may be something is wrong with my scores. Any advice on what to do is very helpful, thanks in advance!

 

[lippy104]

I took the dat and my scores are

PA: 27
QR: 18
RC: 19
BIO: 20
GC: 24
OC: 21

TS:21
AA:20

compared to a fellow SDNer (jewelstar)

PA 19 (73.7%)
QR 17 (65.7%)
RC 21 (84.5%)
Bio 20 (87%)
GC 23 (95%)
OC 21 (87.6%)

TS 22 (96%)
AA 20 (87.1%)


We have the same bio and oc score but my gc is higher so should my TS score be higher than a 21? I am not trying to bring other people's scores down, I am just a little confused. I do not know if I am missing something or may be something is wrong with my scores. Any advice on what to do is very helpful, thanks in advance!

Total Science isn't an average of the three science scores. It is it's own scaled score where your number out of 30 is based on your raw score and what percentile you are in. So although you beat more people on each of the individual sections indicated by your higher scores in those sections, more people beat you in the total science raw score, so you got a lower TS score. Some of the scoring on the DAT is weird since there are different versions of the test. I got an AA of 23 with a 99.7%, and I see lots of people on this site with a 24 AA with a 99.4%.

 

[wantVCUdental]

I took the dat and my scores are

PA: 27
QR: 18
RC: 19
BIO: 20
GC: 24
OC: 21

TS:21
AA:20

compared to a fellow SDNer (jewelstar)

PA 19 (73.7%)
QR 17 (65.7%)
RC 21 (84.5%)
Bio 20 (87%)
GC 23 (95%)
OC 21 (87.6%)

TS 22 (96%)
AA 20 (87.1%)


We have the same bio and oc score but my gc is higher so should my TS score be higher than a 21? I am not trying to bring other people's scores down, I am just a little confused. I do not know if I am missing something or may be something is wrong with my scores. Any advice on what to do is very helpful, thanks in advance!

Every test is differently scaled, for some a 23 in GC maybe 3 wrongs, for others 24 in GC maybe 3 wrongs, same with bio and OC. TS is a reflection of your total science score, you only got 21 and jewel star got 22, b/c he/she scored more correct in total than you. hope that helps

 

[Ibraiz]

From what I have heard its not the average of all three scores, it depends on how many questions you missed out of 100 questions in all 3 sections. You know what I am talking about? Like in some test version you can miss 2 questions and still get 25 and some other test versions you can miss 2 questions and get 23 or something. These are made up hypothetical numbers to explain what I am trying to say.

My scores

Biology: 20
General Chemistry: 23
Organic Chemistry: 24
TS 21

One other person had same Biology as mine but lower General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry and we both have the same TS.

Even I would love to know how they calculate it exactly but thats what I heard they go by the number of questions you missed out of 100 questions in Natural Science section

 

[rpatel8]

The other SDNer got a higher TS because they got more questions correct than you overall. For example, the same scores you got doesn't mean you answered the same amount of questions correctly. They could have gotten a "high" 21 in OC whereas you got a "low" 21 if that makes sense.

 

[MSUstudent]

Thanks a lot every! This is very helpful.

Should all test be grade the same though?

 

[FutureDent020]

Thanks a lot every! This is very helpful.

Should all test be grade the same though?

You both made 20's on bio and 21's on OC, but the other student could have answered 2 more questions right on bio and 2 more right on OC. Difference between a 23 and 24 in Chem i'm guessing is one questions. So total, they answered 3 more TS questions than you (just giving you a possible example). Each TS sectional score has a range. For example 33-35 out of 40 may equal a 20. So you could have gotten 33 right and they could have gotten 35 right. Although you scored higher in chemistry, you obviously missed more in the OC or Bio, causing the difference in TS. Make sense?

And it's not that tests are graded differently, there is just range you can score in. Some students score higher in the range and that is evident in their higher TS. Bio has the largest range and usually creates the difference.

 

[Ohaishasan]

TS is not an average of the 3 scores but of the total you got correct. Because each standard score, i.e. a 20 will signify a range of total correct answers have a lower TS would mean that the number you got correct to attain the 20/24/21 were on the lower spectrum.

20+24+21=65/3=21.67 which would round to 22, but the total correct in each section would have made your overall total right out of 100 less, pulling it to a 21.

Other times the test you took may have had future test questions and do not count toward or against you, but rather for ADA to test new questions for future tests. This will count towards the descrepancy of why get 3 wrong may be a 25 for one test and a 23 for another.

The percentiles deal with the number of people you attained the same or better. So if you have a higher percentile for the same score, 21, it means that you scored higher than most people who had your test. This usually is indicative of a harder test since not as many people scored as high as you. The opposite is true for a lower percentile.

Hope that helps.

By the way, you both get high fives for those scores. Congrats!

 

[rav4182]

i know how you feel, i got a 23/21/21 and my TS was only 21...i was wtf

 

[lippy104]

i know how you feel, i got a 23/21/21 and my TS was only 21...i was wtf

lol thats nothing... what about 28/25/18 the average of these is a 24 but I got a 21 TS.

 

[MSUstudent]

I wanted a 22 AA but I am glad I broke 20. Now its time to move onto the next phase. These secondary apps are so tedious, they have the same questions as AADSAS.

Thanks everyone for clearing this up. After reading everyone's post, I get the picture now.

Another question. If they audit our tests and find out that our scores are lower than what we actually received, would our scores be changed to the lower scores or do we keep the score we got? I would hate to find out that my scores are actually lower.