DAT scoring

[bluemanchews]

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Does anyone know how many questions right in each section correspond to which scores.. IE. how can you score a 25 on PAT? How many questions did you miss? What would be a 26?

Is it true you can't score a 30 on some sections??

 

[Vicviper]

It changes from year to year since the scores are based on your percentile ranking compared to everyone else who has taken the test. From what I've heard it is often impossible to get a 29 in Bio, and it's really hard to tell how many you could get wrong to get exactly a 25 in PAT, I'd guess 5 or less maybe.

 

[cyrano]

All you want to know any more...

http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/testing/dat/raw_score_conversions.pdf

Ta da!

 

[doc3232]

Does anyone know how many questions right in each section correspond to which scores.. IE. how can you score a 25 on PAT? How many questions did you miss? What would be a 26?

Is it true you can't score a 30 on some sections??

Max on any section can be anywhere between 27 and 30.
Usually 29 though.

For sciences, here is an estimate: 27 is 1 wrong, 25 is 2, 23-24 is 3, 21-22 is 4.
I think a 25 on PAT would be 4 wrong and 26 would be 3 wrong.