Done withOctber 16th PCAT , VENT IT OUT!!!! How sis I do Yells ofFustration

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Now the October 16th PCAT is over, how did every one do?. I am not sure how i did, i only finished only biology and writing sections. The rest were terrible. I can wait for my scores Count down to November ending. My pharm school dream may be over for this year.
Math was hard but the first 20 or so questions were doable. That's where my hope is because after reflecting i think i did well on the questions i answered in the 20 or so questions. when the proctor said 5mins left, i was on question 32. I just went ahead an randomly bubbled the rest of the questions and then scanned through to see which one i could easily do. Unfortunately, i was so nervous any question i did during this time had little chance. What is the latest date to register for Jan PCAT?How did every do?

P.S. At my writing center which is located in the University campus, they had some school function outside and they were blasting music and it was so distracting and most of all annoying. At some point we could not stand it and had to change rooms; a 5-10 minutes walk from the previous room.Do you guys think, i should write pearson about this? The proctor said she will write it in the incident report and she adviced us to write pearson about but i am thinking would this even have any effect on the scoring.
How could a testing center runned by the university not care to know what events were on campus and to make testing room adjustments or re-assignments before the test date?
 
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Anyone still bothered by the test? Its been two days and I can't get over it. I've been thinking about all the questions that I bubbled in right but changed it because of second guessing myself (like usual). I've been tallying all the ones I got wrong on paper. Blah!


Haha stop dreading on it sir! It's only going to make you worry more and increase your stress level, nothing good will come of it! Just enjoy being PCAT free for about 6 weeks!
 
Ok, so first off walking out of the test center I wanted to just break all the pencils in my hand and cry. Fortunately I refrained. Secondly the only section I probably did even remotely well on was Bio. I think bio and verbal ability were the only two sections I did ok on. The writing prompts totally didn't care about the subjects so I came up with a main idea and just went for it only to read when my proctor said 5 mins that I was supposed to offer alternate solutions 🙁. Any who everything else I ran out of time on. Including the math and the chemistry I ended up randomly guessing on about 20 of those for each section. Reading Comprehension the passages were sooo long and just all over the place. I'm generally the type of person I can take a test and say ok if I would have studied better or focused more on this I would have done better. I feel like from the pcat I don't know if I could do better it was just that intense I think it was the type of questions they were asking in the amount of time I'm really dreading these scores and feeling pretty blue about pharmacy school this year 🙁
 
Overall, didn't feel like it was too terrible..but then the QA section came...wow! I don't understand how a person can go through Calculus and earn an A with flying colors, but then struggle w/ the QA section so much. I'm just hoping the other sections balance it out. I thought the essays were a piece of cake.
 
Anyone still bothered by the test? Its been two days and I can't get over it. I've been thinking about all the questions that I bubbled in right but changed it because of second guessing myself (like usual). I've been tallying all the ones I got wrong on paper. Blah!

I feel ya... I'm still a bit bothered about that QA section but I'm trying to be as optimistic as I can. I googled some of the harder questions that I remembered from the bio section and I got them right so that made me feel a bit better. It could've gone either way but I'm glad I found out I had guessed right haha.
 
Well this thread is definitely comforting...not that it makes me think I did any better on the test than before..but it helps relieve some of my dismay that I was the only one who struggled with chem and math.


Good luck everyone!! This is going to be the longest 6 weeks of my life, I thought I'd be happy to get the test over with but now I just find myself thinking about the test scores every day anyway. 😕
 
I am still very bothered by this test and it's 3 days later. I have been through so much and the thought of the PCAT hindering me from accomplishing my dreams is heart breaking. THE TEST WAS PAINFUL!! RC was easy, essays were cool but I froze! All I can do is pray for the best. I am getting in Pharmacy school this year somewhere. I am determined.
To the rest of you, don't give up no matter what!
 
Ok, so first off walking out of the test center I wanted to just break all the pencils in my hand and cry. Fortunately I refrained. Secondly the only section I probably did even remotely well on was Bio. I think bio and verbal ability were the only two sections I did ok on. The writing prompts totally didn't care about the subjects so I came up with a main idea and just went for it only to read when my proctor said 5 mins that I was supposed to offer alternate solutions 🙁. Any who everything else I ran out of time on. Including the math and the chemistry I ended up randomly guessing on about 20 of those for each section. Reading Comprehension the passages were sooo long and just all over the place. I'm generally the type of person I can take a test and say ok if I would have studied better or focused more on this I would have done better. I feel like from the pcat I don't know if I could do better it was just that intense I think it was the type of questions they were asking in the amount of time I'm really dreading these scores and feeling pretty blue about pharmacy school this year 🙁

I did cry. Don't worry, it will be ok. I was sooo angry, hurt. Honestly, I felt defeated but I refuse to give up.
 
hmmmm I had time to finish every section with only a minute to spare... but as many others have said, chem and QA were both terrible. I was a math club member for 5 years and A in Calc 1 and 2, and was completely shocked with QA section... But, dont we all realize, this is their tactic, so everyone cries on the way home and spends money on one PCAT after another... Truth= NOONE can finish the QA reasonably...
 
quick question. are the percentiles based on everyone in the US that took the exam or is it based on everyone that took the exam at the same location?
 
Great question. I'd like to know as well.

It's across the United States. Some testing centers only have a couple people taking the exam so they cannot be accurately compared to one another.


^^ well, they can be accurately compared to one another, but as a standardized admissions test they really can't.
 
It's across the United States. Some testing centers only have a couple people taking the exam so they cannot be accurately compared to one another.


^^ well, they can be accurately compared to one another, but as a standardized admissions test they really can't.

I wish I was only taking the test with a few other people in the room. There were a total of 132 people at my testing center!
 
It's across the United States. Some testing centers only have a couple people taking the exam so they cannot be accurately compared to one another.


^^ well, they can be accurately compared to one another, but as a standardized admissions test they really can't.

thanks brah
 
quick question. are the percentiles based on everyone in the US that took the exam or is it based on everyone that took the exam at the same location?

The percentiles are based on every one who took PCAT for the first time between 2004 and 2007.
Does that answer your question?
 
I wish I was only taking the test with a few other people in the room. There were a total of 132 people at my testing center!

If you decide to take it again, consider the computer based version. My room had about 8 people in it.👍
 
I'm most terrified about how well I did on the quant. ability section. I know nobody really knows how many we can miss to get at least in the 85th percentile in each section - but I'd like to hear what people guess it might be like? I know for sure I missed 3 in the biology section already - I'm hoping no more than that, but like I said, QA was 😱 I ended up having to guess on I think the last 10 or so. Yikes.

5 more weeks! I can't stop thinking about the test. :scared:
 
Yes, same with me. I finished all the sections easily except for the math section. I guessed on about 10 of them that I had skipped hoping I would have more time to look them over in the end. 🙁
 
2 weeks down, ~4 more weeks to go!!!! Hope everyone has a fun Halloween!🙂
FOUR MORE WEEKS!!! AHHHHH!!! Now that is scary haha Happy Halloween everyone. I've heard that people have gotten their scores around the 4th week so cross your fingers I guess?
 
FOUR MORE WEEKS!!! AHHHHH!!! Now that is scary haha Happy Halloween everyone. I've heard that people have gotten their scores around the 4th week so cross your fingers I guess?

Yea.. I got my scores from August in about 5 weeks but online wise.. it was available in 4.5 weeks. So my guess is it'll be available for 20 bucks online on Nov. 17th.
 
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