help with percentiles please!

[toothtooth000]

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Hey guys,

I took my DAT a few months ago and got a 24TS, (25 bio, 23 gen chem and ochem) .

I thought the lady working at prometric gave me the wrong score sheet when i was leaving because it had no percentiles. but on my way home from my test i called the ADA and they told me percentiles are no longer given out.

I am wondering if anyone here knows what % a 24 total science is and what percentile a 25 and 23 would be (for individual sections). I'm only asking because i applied to tutor students in the dat and they want me to be above the 90th %

thanks!

also what percentile does a 21 PAT fall in? thanks!

 

[paymaant]

Hey guys,

I took my DAT a few months ago and got a 24TS, (25 bio, 23 gen chem and ochem) .

I thought the lady working at prometric gave me the wrong score sheet when i was leaving because it had no percentiles. but on my way home from my test i called the ADA and they told me percentiles are no longer given out.

I am wondering if anyone here knows what % a 24 total science is and what percentile a 25 and 23 would be (for individual sections). I'm only asking because i applied to tutor students in the dat and they want me to be above the 90th %

thanks!

also what percentile does a 21 PAT fall in? thanks!

I will base my answer off of what I earned on my DAT back in June. You certainly scored over the 90th percentile, well done! I got a 23 on Total science which was a 97.5 percentile. I got a 20 on PAT which was 73 percentile.

 

[toothtooth000]

@paymaant cool thanks! a 20 on pat is only 73% !? i wouldve expected it to be higher! lol maybe your pat was really hard. or maybe thats normal i dunno :x

anyone else ?

 

[FeralisExtremum]

PAT aside because I'm not sure, you're well above the 90th percentile in all the sciences.

 

[Glimmer1991]

You need to let these folks know that percentiles are no longer given. Your scores easily speak for themselves.

 

[toothtooth000]

ok cool thanks everyone!

 

[Bereno]

You have some pretty rock-star scores, so I would not worry. I got a 21AA which was a 97.2 percentile, so some tests are harder than others (comparing percentiles above). This said, you are easily above that 90% mark. Also, my 23 PAT was a 96.2 percentile, so that also seems to vary. 👍

 

[sjv]

Historic overall percentiles (not individual test) here, starting on page 13: http://www.ada.org/sections/educationAndCareers/pdfs/dat_users_manual.pdf

 

[SpartyOnYo]

When I was studying over the summer with Crack the PAT, I scored a 21 on one of the tests and it was 93.2 percentile. I ended up scoring a 21 on the actual PAT when I took the actual test in August, so that's what I'm going to credit myself with lol