how to know when your ready...

[physicslover]

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im writing the test in about 2 weeks time and im freaking out about whether i will be ready or not. I don't even know what it means to feel ready...this is my second time writing too so I want to make sure that Im totally prepared.

How do you guys know you are ready to write? After doing review, practice tests? I'm so stressed out! I'm trying to fill in supplementary apps, find a job, and study for my OAT, all of which are taking a toll on my stress meter. Sometimes I just feel way too overwhelmed to concentrate on studying!

Any tips on studying and knowing your own preparedness for the exam would help 🙂

 

[sunnydecember]

dude i feel you. lol but mine's worse. its in one week!
i was trying to review for the last couple weeks so that now i can
just take a whole mess of practice questions and tests but since school
started again i got behind in my review schedule. my goal is to just memorize
all the flash cards i have and the general concepts/equations/facts and make sure i got all that down so at least if i don't know a hard topic on the OAT ill be able to use the basics to try to answer it. i'm prob not gonna feel prepared because there's so much info but i think if i just do these things i will know that i prepared as much as i can and that's all i could do and if it's not enough, ill take it again. goodluck studying and on your OAT 🙂)

 

[thecgrblue]

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[thecgrblue]

Google search course saver...since that was apparently blocked out. I'm taking the OAT on October 15th. I decided about a month and a half ago to go for it.

 

[zxcutiemdr]

the best thing u can do is just be calm and not worry about it at all. its just a test and it says nothing about you as a person...and that applies whether you get a 200 or a 400.
i felt like I could've prepared much more but the way that you know you are ready is by doing a lot of practice tests and practice questions and the other way is knowing that you got your timing down.

i used OAT achiever n it helped me so much with my timing. at first when i wouldn't get the score that I wanted on a section I wouldn't look over the answer but take that one section again and rework even the problems I was sure about. I did this for kaplan FL also. I also isolated the questions i was having trouble with and looked up the topics in my texbook or the big Kaplan OAT book and practice a few problems on there and I would give myself about one minute per question on those practice problems too.

jus fyi I started going at practice problems/full OATs hardcore 4 weeks b4. I felt "ready" when I knew that I have learned all that I possibly could with the amount of time I was given. obviously there is sooo much to know about but honestly the only reason i felt ready is because I was calm through out the whole process. dont let stress get the better of u always realize that we are in a privileged position to be able to take this test and to be able to have the study materials and previous knowledge to succeed in it. oh and i also saw my OAT scores improved and when I finally took the opted test the day b4 and saw my scores I knew that I did what I could given my circumstances and stuff 😀.. good luck please dont stress it and if you are too worried the post pone it .. its better to spend $25 doing that than wwaiting 3 more months n paying the full price. 🙂

 

[physicslover]

thanks for the wise words everyone 🙂

 

[euphaire]

hi physicslover,
it's comforting to know i'm not the only one freaking out. or maybe I am. i'm taking the test tomorrow and i'm sweating literally at the thought of it. i'm an engineering major and bio/chem are absolutely foreign to me. in addition, i scored very high on all my college essay/reading exams but definitely not RC. i kept getting BELOW 300 for RC in OAT achiever. I am freaked out! My eyes hurt a lot whenever i have to read passages on a computer screen so that doesn't help.
since ur post is a while ago i assume u already took the oat. i hope you did well. i hope i can do somewhat okay too. but i'm sure i cant since i sucked so bad with the achiever. i'm thinking about re-take the test even before going to the test now. is there a period of time i must wait between taking one oat and taking the next?

ahhhh totally freaked out..................i'd rather eat spiders

Cherry